Show t Health I T UT By Lulu Hunt Peters MD M.D. rY r 1 q let i an H Key C Calories lorie I ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS CORRESPOND CORRESPOND- Dr Lulu Hunt Pet Peters rs M. M D. D M. M D D. means My Darling for I love lo you ou Five months ago I r wrote for your booklet on reducing I am 52 years ears old 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed at that time pounds Today I weigh My double chin Is 15 gone an and I feel 40 years younger as well as 40 pounds lighter I fOr took the three-day three liquid diet to start on and now each Sunday I go on a milk diet of ot to calories calories cal cal- ories and give my tummy a little weekly shrink I r do all my housework housework housework house house- work and do lots of walking and exercise by kicking and stooping twisting of ot the arms backward and forward etc I r have always lived on a farm worked hard and ate heartily Today I am alone so I r have made up a raw salad of several several several sev sev- eral fruits and vegetables and will eat nothing but that all day Now v my problem I am re redUced reduced reduced re- re all over but my face shows it most of all My family is ravIng raving raving ing they want me to stop They say I look older and that they have lost their pretty mama I have five women friends who are reducing the same way with me and we sure have some fun tun We all report doing fine Shall I r go godown godown godown down to normal and look older Or shall I quit where I am am Mrs A A. A D. D You have to learn to discountenance discountenance discountenance nance what your family says bout your looking older Mrs A. A D. D and even though you do look older the fact that you feel 40 ye years rs younger i as well as 40 pounds lighter is of ot I more value to you and to them i Your people are used to a fat tat face i and they evidently like Uke it I Use a little good grade rouge and powder of shades that are arc be be- be coming Use them very judiciously judicious judicious- ly of ot course When you fet get on not maintenance diet and a are n reducing your you will cease look looking g drawn and older Each time you wash your face a few drops of ot glycerin Into pour It rub hand and the palm of your over your face while it is still wet then rub it off oft Pat your face tace five or ten minutes a day stretch your neck up and down backwards and forwards and to the sides but es especially especially especially es- es backwards blowing at the same time with the lips Ups held loosely loose looses ly Iy not puckered Do this at lea least times a day in relays relas of ot ten Give your face ice water rubs once or twice a day also Use a good grade of ot face tace cream at night For I 5 feet teet 5 inches your normal weight should be around I advise advise ad advise ad- ad vise you ou to get down to this weight You can plump up five lve or six pounds If It your face really looks too thin If It you dont don't get down to normal you ou have to be so much more careful In your diet than you do if you get to normal Twenty pounds excess is too much I am glad you interested your friends Its It's lots more fun when you have a club Thanks for the theM M 11 I. I D. D and your good report II POSITION OF TH THE E UTERUS Miss II Yes H.-Yes Yes there are displacements displacements displace displace- I ments of the womb that can be straightened out without operation The upper part of ot the uterus womb is suspended by ligaments so that it has a free tree movement backwards and forwards Normally Normal Normal- ly Iy it should incline forward so that tho the abdominal pressure Is i exerted on the back backof of ot it thus h he helping Iping to hold It in position Correct posture has a great deal to do with the direction of or the ab abdominal abdominal abdominal ab- ab pressure and the right po position position position po- po of ot the uterus so exercises of ot the trunk and the spine to insure proper posture will help keep the uterus in the normal forward po po- Walking on all fours like an animal every day for a few minutes Is a good practice Many women have the backward displacement with apparently no symptoms while others with a slight displacement may have no symptoms Unless you suffer from the displacement there is no indication indication Indication Indi indi- cation for an operation There are other procedures that your physician cian will tell you ou about that can be adopted Tomorrow Answers to dents Copyright 1925 by the George Matthew l Adams Service |