Diet Tips for a beautiful female figure
In this article, you will discover diet tips about making and
keeping your figure beautiful. It's something many of diet
experts know and almost every woman would love to know. These
diet tips have the power to build up and fill out your figure.
DIET
Diet and exercise are the two main essentials in making and
keeping the figure beautiful. No woman can reduce weight,
improve a clumsy and ungainly figure, through exercise alone.
Diet comes first. Comparatively few women need fattening. What
most need is reduction.
FIRST AID FOR THE THIN
Yet for those whose figure needs building up and filling out,
the following facts should be borned in mind. First, relax
mentally. Worry and nervous tension use up calories -- the
calorie is the unit by which we measure heat and food -- very
rapidly, and tend to reduce weight below normal. Secondly, sleep
enough and breathe fresh air in plenty. Third, exercise, to
stimulate the appetite and aid all the organs of the body to do
their work. Fourth, eat more of the foods that are high in food
value. Butter, sugar, cream and cream sauce on vegetables,
cod-liver oil and olive oil, are all fattening.
FIRST AID FOR THE FAT
Do not cultivate fallacies, if you are fat and wish to reduce
your figure in accord with the normal and ideal body
measurements, . Shun antifat patent medicines and quack "cures."
Often they are based on mercury, arsenic or thyroid extract.
Shun Epsom salts baths and too many Turkish baths. They do harm
and no good. The reduction of calories is the real secret of
successful fat reduction, and a key to that unit of measurement
will enable you to bring your figure within the proper limits,
to keep your figure beautiful. The whole point is to know how
many calories of food you need per day. Now, normally, a woman
who does not "work" in any actual sense of the word, can do with
1,600 to 1,800 calories per day. If she follows some sedentary
occupation, 2,000 to 2,200 calories will suffice her. If her
business requires walking, standing or any lighter manual labor,
she can run her calorie allowance up to 2,500. If she performs
hard physical labor, she is entitled to 2,500 to 3,000 calories.
All this is normally speaking. But if you are too fat, if you
wish to bring back your figure to its rightful lines, you must
know what your ideal net weight should be in order to cut off
the number of calories of food you do not need.
Among the kinds of food, note that Proteins, which build tissue
and yield energy, may store fat. Proteins are contained in meat,
fish, fowl, nuts, milk, cheese, vegetables. Fats (animal fats,
oils, chocolate, nuts) are stored by the body as fat. So are
Carbohydrates (sugars, starches, including bread, cereals,
potatoes, corn, etc.). Vitamins, food substances needed for
growth, occur in animal fats, but not in vegetable ones, as also
in eggs, milk, butter and meat, vegetable outer skins, grain
germs and fruits.
BALANCE IN DIET
These kinds of food must be balanced. If you balance them
properly, you can reduce your figure to normal without injuring
health or keeping to a monotonous food diet. Proteins you must
eat, but neither to excess nor the reverse. And you must eat
Vitamins, which abound in nonfattening vegetables and fruits. Do
not be afraid of drinking plenty of water. But do not exceed
your calorie allowance. Without further theory we advise the
woman who wishes to eat and grow thin to avoid the following
liquids and foods.
THE "KEEP OFF" SIGN FOR THE STOUT
Shun water during meals--it makes you eat more. Drink all you
want between meals. Rich sodas must be avoided. But coffee in
moderation and skim milk are not harmful. But every woman should
know that all alcoholic drinks make her fatter if she is fat and
thinner if she is thin, thus serving no good purpose. Each bit
of food you eat beyond what your system and your normal weight,
figure and calorie requirements demand, is fattening. Candy,
pie, cakes, ice cream, whipped cream, candied sweet potatoes,
cheese, rice, butter, fresh and white bread, rich meats, thick
gravies and nuts are fattening.
"Keep off" fried foods, bacon, ham, pork, and all things made of
flour, macaroni, dried beans, puddings, pastries and custards.
But there are excellent beefsteak or lean meat, fruit and milk
diets, the fruit diet especially being excellent for reduction.
An occasional fast day, or certain days of low caloric eating a
week are also good. A rapid method to reduce the overplus of
calories is a diet of baked potatoes and a glass of skim milk,
three times daily, for a week at a time. Or, instead of fasting
altogether for a day, drink a glass of buttermilk every three
hours. Again, small helpings of favorite fattening foods, or the
dropping of one thing for another, will help attain the end --
which is the reduction of your calorie overplus. This is the
whole secret of reducing fat and bringing the figure to its
normal physical best, its legitimate beauty of outline, where
diet is concerned.
WHAT THE OBESE CAN EAT
A number of excellent books which deal in great detail with the
different ways of controlling the calories, of reducing weight
and fat, are easily available. We have gone into some details
ourselves, although diet and fat reduction is here only
considered in its relation to physical beauty. In the books
already mentioned, numerous "sample menus," etc., will be found.
Foods you can eat, and still feel you are not betraying your
figure, include: (1) Any meat or game, save pig. (2) All
seafood, including lobster. (3) Fruit, with the exception of
grapes and bananas. (4) Salads and meat jellies. (5) Tomatoes,
peppers, olives, celery, cucumber, chili sauce and
Worcestershire. (6) All fruit desserts.
Beauty and health go hand in hand. Your skin, your hair, your
figure, if not healthy, rob your loveliest features of their
charm. Make health the cornerstone of an intelligent study and
cultivation of every iota of beauty which you have. Physical
beauty, in the best sense, means well-rounded physical
development on a health basis. Make the most of your figure and
every charm you, individually, may possess. Such is the gospel
of this article. If its teachings be followed, power-- beauty's
choicest secret -- will be your reward.