Show Excessive Ve Eating s Is Greatest Cause Of Fat and Disease Before Belore weakly accepting that third helping of turkey turkey turkey-or or at least before be- be before fore bre you reach for another wedge of stop pie pic stop look and listen to this cheery little message You are 25 per cent more likely to o die at age 45 if you are 25 pounds overweight 50 pounds of excess weight puts you in a group with a 50 percent per cent higher death rate than normal says the Northwestern National Na- Na National ional Life Insurance company company- Fat is one of our greatest killers most overweight people dont don't I realize its dangers or they would do something about their condition Fat kills by promoting disease and by making various diseases more deadly Among overweight people there is more heart disease more nore kidney trouble more diabetes far ar more cancer and three times as much high blood pressure as among people of average weight Fat people have more falls faUs and other accidents than do their breth breth- brethren ren of normal size I Mental Cental Handicap Parents who permit children to remain fat expose them to perma perma- permanent permanent permanent nent mental handicaps due to the ridicule of playmates and inability to compete as well as to greater hazards from from disease both in youth and in later life Widespread medical research has exploded many man m a n y earlier theories such as that some peo peo- people people pIe are born to be fat and cant can't lose weight no matter h how o w rigidly they diet that some peo peo- people people people are fat because they have more efficient digestions and retain more of the nourishment from their food that thyroid or other gland abnormalities are frequent causes of excess weight Two sad homely facts about the problems of excess weight have simmered out of all this medical research Sad Fact No 1 People become overweight simply because they eat more food than their bodies need Children get fat f t for exactly the same reason Sad Fact No 2 The only practical practical practical safe way to reduce is to eat less food There is no shortcut no safe easy way Proper exercise is healthful butas but butas butas as a reducer it is more work than it is worth You need to climb twenty flights of stairs to lose the weight put on you by one extra slice of bread Leaving out the excess food is easier on you in every way Drugs Are Unsafe No effective and harmless reducing reducing reducing ing drug is known to medical science science science ence with the exception of thyroid extract when used in those rare cases where thyroid deficiency is actually the cause of excess fat At least 99 per cent of all overweight people have no thyroid trouble and will find the extract useless The three main ways in which so-called so reducing prescriptions work if they work at all are By numbing the appetite by disturbing bodily functions or by small-scale small poison poison- poisoning ing the numbing appetite-numbing type of drug is occasionally prescribed in limited amounts by a physician tomake to tomake tomake make it easier for a patient to stick to a reducing diet but such prepa prepa- preparations preparations preparations rations should never be used except if and as prescribed by your doc doe tor When anyone makes up his mind to reduce it is wise to have the diet prescribed by a physician tomake to tomake tomake make sure it is properly balanced and contains plenty of vitamins and minerals The dieter should get a good bathroom scale and weigh himself or herself stripped be be- before before fore breakfast each day A severe cut in the amount of food usually works out best results are so slow with a mild cut in eating that the dieter grows discouraged The first three days on a reducing diet are the hardest then the stomach ad ad- adjusts justs to the smaller amount of food taken in and staying with the pro pro- program gram becomes much easier Once the goal is achieved and you are finally down to your correct weight look out warns the report yoU report you can get the fat back much faster taster and easier than you lost it Keep on weighing yourself in the raw each morning and avoid having to do the job all over |