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WOMEN ARE FATTER

BECAUSE THEY'RE "LAZY” DANGERS TO HEALTH. Women, despite their resort through ignorance to drugs and other harmful means of reducing obesity, are getting fatter. And the cause of it, according to a famous London doctor, is that they are far more lazy than in the past. He told the ‘ Sunday Chronicle ’ that the zest shown by women to remain slim is having no effect, and that today there are more over-plump women than ever. He put it down to the easy traffic facilities, the use and cheapness of motor cars, and haying every laboursaving device at their hands. ' TOO MUCH REST. “These used in moderation,” he said, “ are extremely useful. But women are going to the extreme, and avoiding every semblance of any tiling requiring energy to perform. “ Consequently they have more time for resting, and from all observation they are getting really lazy. “ In fact, with a largo number of women it is too much trouble even to cook a meal, and they go to a restaurant, where they are served with foodstuffs which, although quite wholesome, tend to put on avoirdupois.” MORE LIABLE TO ILLNESS. Obesity, he said, is really dangerous to health, and should not he the subject of cheap jests and witticisims. He quoted figures which showed that more than 50 per cent, more deaths occurred among women who were three and five stones above the normal weight. “A fat persons is more liable to illness than anybody else. That is why women ’ are keeping the doctors extra busy nowadays. Diabetes and heart trouble are prevalent among them. Operations are also made more hazardous than among ordinarily-sized women.” PIOW TO REDUCE. Starvation, food extracts, and drugs are harmful as fat-reducing methods. The correct way to do it is, in his opinion:— Walk two miles sharply every day. Stop eating rich food. Exercise for' twenty minutes a day* apart from the walking. Among the foods to bo avoided are macaroni, olive oil, and potatoes.

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Evening Star, Issue 20058, 26 December 1928, Page 1

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330

WOMEN ARE FATTER Evening Star, Issue 20058, 26 December 1928, Page 1

WOMEN ARE FATTER Evening Star, Issue 20058, 26 December 1928, Page 1

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