Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1950)

NOW! IN COMPLETE PRINTED FORM! RADIO MIRROR PRESENTS <* THE LINILAHR DIET You can't properly get rid of unsightly fat on a starvation diet. You only lose energy that way, and health and good looks — and your husband! Here's the tested and proved eat-and-be-fit way you can reduce! 17ou don't have to stop eating to start losing! ■ Starving is foolish at best — dangerous at worst. \ It's exactly the other way around. You must eat, and eat well, to lose weight. We learned that years ago at the health spa of my father, a doctor who pioneered in dietetics, and I remember well the case that first brought this important truth to our attenion: A woman had come to us for the express purpose of losing thirty pounds in thirty days, for she was getting married in a month. Our patients were regaining health on a daily six-hundred calorie diet. But the bride-to-be insisted on taking nothing but a quart of fruit juice daily. The result: in a week she had lost only four pounds — while patients eating the prescribed diet had lost as much as eight! A miracle? At the time it seemed like one, for then nobody understood how a person could eat and lose at the same time. Today we know that the enzymes of select foods actually split the fat molecules that are crammed into corsets and girdles, turning that excess ta into useful energy. Up to the time you're thirty, it's healthy to * slightly overweight— but not excessively, unles you want to ruin a career or a romance. But arc thirty-five, fife expectancy is decreased by °n 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 oj numerous books on food and health, the sales of which have reached more than seven million copies. 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? grange Plants' Expensive drugs? No! There are more than thirty catalytic foods and they are common, inexpensive vegetables and fruits like lettuce, ery, melons, tomatoes. . "Maybe that's all right for some women, you \ ii i'ii I indlahr, who hu madt teai King ■•I bell ibiti Ins life work, may s;i.\ 'But my family hat always tended to bi over-weigh f. It's hereditary." That's ju.si .1 p • excuse There' no medical evidence thai fai la hereditary JTou may have de veloped .in ! thick gravy ;ii vein moth er's tabic, but that's .ill •Hut 1 can't i> don't \oorl prop' Those poor glands how much forj \, ix chiei function so Eai bi Eat Is (I, is i,, determine where it Is to i» de posited. Of i md i don'l work prop ,i, n, ran ovei Weigh< caused by glandular disturbances Nearly always you must blame your appetifc "Bui ' lack willpower.' ,l"1" Perhaps you've tried diet ■•• ikimpj thai never felt satisfied after ., meal W. II. OU adds up to three and a hah pom dav Or perhaps you admil to "' '" casional pie hread and butter all rocket the How can nibbh erally agree that excessive eatta uh ol cusorn, habit or nervousness caused by in, tion loneliness, fi usances ''' ta