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LAHR DIET
THE FAMOUS RADIO WAY TO EAT WELL AND LOSE WEIGHT
By VICTOR LINDLAHR
Editor's Note: Radio Mirror's editors are proud to be able to bring reader-listeners Victor Lindlahr's sound, sensible — and workable — ideas on reducing, the most talked about, argued about subject whenever women gather! On these pages you'll find not only the result-bringing Lindlahr seven day diet, but a clear, easily understood statement of the principles behind the diet. Victor Lindlahr, leading popular authority on diet and nutrition is author of numerous books on food and health, the sales of which have reached more than seven million copies.
Victor Lindlahr, who has made teaching of better eating habits his life work.
percent for each pound of overweight. Most of us condemn alcoholics and drug addicts for self-destruction— yet each year more people literally kill themselves overeating!
A woman of thirty-five who weighs 184 pounds, when she should tip the scales at 134, cuts her remaining life span in half. Bluntly, it comes down to this: by maintaining or adding to excess fat, you are committing suicide!
But you need not — must not! — starve or fast.
"It does mean, though," says the overweight woman, "dieting, with a limited choice of foods."
Diet? We call it a party, for a party consists of meeting the good friends who make you feel better. The catalytic foods in our menus are your best friends, and if you associate with them regularly they work for your greater enjoyment of life. In the seven-day diet you'll find such regulars as chicken, hamburger, veal and ham — but along with them are catalytic foods with enzymes that break up fat you find such an ugly burden. And what are the catalytic foods— complicated recipes? Strange plants? Expensive drugs? No! There are more than thirty catalytic foods and they are common, inexpensive vegetables and fruits like lettuce, celery, melons, tomatoes.
"Maybe that's all right for some women," you
may say. "But my family has always tended to be overweight. It's hereditary."
That's just a poor excuse. There's no medical evidence that fat is hereditary. You may have developed an appetite for thick gravy at your mother's table, but that's all.
"But I can't help it if my glands don't work properly."
Those poor glands — how much they get blamed for! Actually their chief function, so far as fat is concerned, is to determine where it is to be deposited. Of course, glands don't work properly if you're overweight! Only in rare cases is overweight caused by glandular disturbances. Nearly always you must blame your appetite. "But I lack will power," you may admit.
Perhaps you've tried diets so skimpy that you never felt satisfied after a meal. Well, our diet adds up to three and a half pounds of food each day. Or perhaps you admit to sneaking an occasional piece of candy? Candy, cream, sugar, bread and butter all rocket the calorie intake.
How can nibbling be controlled? Doctors generally agree that excessive eating is a result of custom, habit or nervousness caused by frustration, loneliness, failure and other unhappy circumstances. The basic cause of these should be
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