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Show Food Sense Not Nonsense Better on the Level Up and down roller coaster rides may bo wonderful sport for children of all ages, but one feels lietter on the level. For dieters, the roller coaster route the upa and downs of weight control-may control-may be more dangerous than overweight itself. They, too, are U tter off at the level of their ideal weight -Research indicate! that two all-' all-' too-common diseases, long associated associ-ated with excess poundage, may be aggravated by roller coaster shifts in weight. The names for these diseases have become household house-hold words: Hypertension, known to most of us as high blood pressure; pres-sure; atherosclerosis, as the gradual grad-ual narrowing of the body's blood . ' vessels. No longer are these con-- con-- ditions confined to old ago. They now art fcapping the vigor and vitality of an ever-younger age group. To help keep there dividends of youth- vigor and vitality- doctors are encouraging adults to learn their rislit weights and keep their level. They ore cautioning against alternate periods of fasting fast-ing and feasting . . . against diet fads that lead to une and dowii3 in weight. Such diets fail, becausa they are starvation diets . . . are not diets to live by. A favored regimen includes eating foods from these four groups, each day:. Breads and cereals, meat and " meat alternates, milk and dairy foods, fruits and vegetables. Helping to determine the amount oi these foods and their accompaniments that you should have daily are your ase, physical activity,, and body build. Not ev- -'; ery women,- five foot two with eyes of blue, should - sjivigli the sr. me nor aspire to the same figure fig-ure et by fashion. Each pe-r,rn '-has '-has his own weight at wliicli lie feeb and works best Chec!: v-iUi your doctor. Your ideal weinht may be stealer than you think. |