Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-02-28 | Page 14 | Reducing Fads and Trick Diets Often Ruin Health

BM Reducing Fads and Trick Y 0 Diets i ets Often Ruin Ru in Healt By DK DUl MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical l Association lon and of Hygeia the tho Health Magazine So persistent is the craze for slender slender slender slen slen- I der figures that women throughout the he country indulge in all al aI sorts sorts' of dangerous dangerous' methods to reduce weight I Every few months brings some new now fad or with which a Q great many women immediately experiment cx cx- until science shows the harm mrm that these met methods cause and their fallacy During 1935 women everywhere were trying until eventually cases began to appear in which tho the use of this drug had caused c cataracts of the tho eye There are now nowa a great many women who vho have lave paid for their vanity by losing their sight Previously women had used preparations prep prep- cont containing ln ng thyroid which were dangerous to life and health Many had developed symptoms of hyperthyroidism which Involves a rapid heart irritability of of the nervous nervous nervous nerv nerv- ous system and other systemic upsets upsets upsets up up- sets of a serious character Still others had used patent medicines medi cines containing drugs without ef effIciency efficiency ef- ef and had spent their money without any result except damage to health Today women in various parts o othe of the country arc are flocking to milk farms to try the th newest n west fad On these farms they subsist for varying periods s on milk orange juice am and soup the milk mUk sometimes being taken in the form of pf milk lactic acid milk or the clabber known among tho the Bulgarians a as yogurt Such a diet is exceedingly dangerous danger danger- ous because it brings about weight weigh reduction far to too o rapidly and because because because be be- cause it does not provide a sufficient amount of mineral salts especially especially espe espe- daIly iron to sustain the blood in ina ina ina a normal healthful condition You may see Ice today women who are haggard and sallow wandering about in la a weakened condition bustill but bu still rather proud of the fact that tha they have havie taken off oft in a short pe period period pe- pe nod of time anywhere from 10 O t to 15 pounds pound You may see the same same sam women a a month later with 10 to 11 15 pounds restored on those ose parts o of I the he body on which they would Woula er r have the weight ab aae nt ra I f M u nothing to show for tor their ment but disappointment and and Ma tp loss oss of health