Show 4 Doctor Doctorin Doc or in the K Kitchen h by Laurence M M. M Hursh MD M.D. Consultant National Dairy Council WEIGHT II CONTROL-II Last w week ek we talked about weight control especially the i fact that its it's not so hard to know how to do it as IS it is to do it And especially around Holiday time ones one's desire to cat less Is sorely I taxed I remember one good gimmick for reducers though It works at cocktail par parties lies Say your our hostess has the place loaded down with all kinds of hors d'oeuvres all sorts of goodies Not only are arc the drinks loaded with wilh calories So is the food Well yell instead of sitting silting I there or strictly standing in talking talking talk- talk in ing groups group both of which make you ou vulnerable to offers of another drink ink and how about sampling these lovely snacks you ou go goon goon goon on offense Help Your Hostess How By Dy helping your our hostess You be the one to otter offer to get others drinks You help your our hostess hostess hostess host host- ess pass the trays tray of goodies Carry Carry Car Car- ry snack trays tra s 's around and let others help themselves while you restrain yourself un unnoticeably noticeably with no offense to your our hostess You'll also get some exercise And Andou you ou might even meet someone new and interesting Research is still trying to find out specific things about weight control We dont don't know much about what controls appetite in humans Mechanisms that control appetite have been identified and located in laboratory animals And we assume people have similar abilities But were we're not sure how they work and mid psychological fac- fac j tors also probably arc are Involved t. t A lot more research will have to bo be done before well we'll know whether one individual utilizes his food more efficiently than another Some studies with rats have suggested that nibbling eating less but more often wilt often will produce more body protein and less body fat than eating the same number of calories at one meal But Dut studies with other animals and humans have so far failed tailed to show this And Ami linal finally there Isn't any research research re reo re- re search to prove that the proportion proportion tion lion of protein fat lat or carbohydrate drate makes any weight control difference that isn't caused already already al al- ready by the number of calories cal rles you ou consume Sounds pretty discouraging doesn't it Well it is for our greatest problem with weight control Is the fact that we wo experience nce so much failure Weight Control But theres there's lots of research goIng going go go- ing on Incidentally theres there's some good evidence that obesity can an be triggered trig gored in infancy that mothers who overfeed their youngsters cause them to have larger fat cells cells that are harder to keep In line The best bet for now is simply for all of us to determined be to maintain ideal weight that weight you were if it U was right then when you were were t twenty venty |