Show Diet Health BJ Ju Hunt D THE SHRINKING STOMACH Now you are oC off on the big ad- ad venture I If you are overweight your stomach has long been used to too large an amount of food for your needs so It is oversized and distended When you ou have really eaten enough for your requirements rl- rl it is still flabby and loose with ca cavernous vernous spaces yawning a for tor more It H Is an affectionate sort of an organ the stomach It It likes to embrace its food closely and cuddle cuddle cud cud- dle it on all sides and when the proper amount amo comes it sends up upa a message Enough If you are wl wise e you ou heed Its word and de- de But you ou have not been wise wiseman man many many times and many times said stomach has had to stretch itself to accommodate your un- un At times it has been so overcrowded that it has not had bad enough room and It has pressed up on tire chest region to see if you had a heart and your heart leas las back pretty quickly a protest against being crowded lIl like e that Not infrequently in- in frequently a heart gets so peeved pee that it stops work and somebody some some- bod body be begins ns harp lessons prematurely prema- prema So you yen see the stomach has gradually become distended and the more you more it expands expands ex- ex and the more you ou want Now what to do This let t overworked o industrious stomach know that you have seen the error of your ways and give it a chance to get back to normal In other words shrink it The best way that I know of aside from a fast is to go on a liquid diet for at least three days The stomach has a chance in that time to get set Irl in its ways In fact one could go on a liquid Iq id diet for a much longer period than that with benefit but it Js Is not necessary Now what happens For three days stomach has been hunting something to cuddle it has contracted contracted con con- and contracted to find something to wrap itself around and there has been precious lit lit- tle You offer it a small sized meal and stomach seizes It So and sends up un word so soon that It has enough that you are thrilled You realize that your our stomach i is shrunk and you are going to be able to control your appetite because of 01 that fact Our thin friends we hav have to advise to do just the reverse of this I 1 aU am coming to them a little lit lit- tIe tle later The shrinking of the stomach has other fine results besides besides' that ot helping you to control your appet ap- ap pet petite te Among the most important important tant are the following The dIet gives the system a chance to get rid of a lot of the poisons which have accumulated from an excess of food for your our needs and you will immediately feel much better and oh joy you will lose from five fhe to ten pounds of weight Aint It a grand and glorious The loss is not all fat of course and the scale may run up a trifle even even when you are on your our redu reducing re- re du regime afterward but at I least two thirds of the weight will stay off and you will gradually lo lose e more I I do not want you ou to lose more than two pounds a week after the Ure first week More Ilore about this later I continue as I directed up up you to do yesterday Keep your liquid some diet liquids pot ot totaling more than to c calo calories Io ries a day If you ou cannot get fresh mil milor milor or buttermilk you ou can get the powdered milk and make it up up as you need it A little fresh orange juice will supply the vita vita- I mine lost A cup of clear vegetable vege- vege table or beef broth without fat fatis fatis is only 25 C. C i j Take a glass ot of one of these every three hours One ounce o d whole milk is 20 C. C and skim and buttermilk free from cr cream am amIs Is half that I amount or 10 C. C Or Or if I you do not like milk in any form drink orange juice O One e ounce is approximately 1 15 C C. It If you cannot get oranges you may if you chew so 80 that it is reduced to a liquid t J tore fore you swallow eat two sized apples instead One m moderate mod mod- erate sized apple Is SO 50 C. C i- i CARRY ON lerate l- r i Two Tomorrow ShrunK I Copyright 1327 by George Ia 1 Matthew Mat Mat- t- t thew Adams Service I |