Screenland (May-Oct 1931)

for July 1931 87 DO YOU WANT TO REDUCE ? Ask Anne Van Alstyne! Read this article first. Then, if you find you still have an unsolved beauty problem — figure, skin, hair, feet — write to Miss Van Alstyne and she will help you; Address : Anne Van Alstyne, Screenland, 45 West 45 th Street, New York City, enclosing a self-addressed, stamped envelope for personal reply. utive, you should have a bit more weight to allow for the nervous strain you are under. If you are a vigorous outdoor worker, your exercise should prevent your storing up fat. If, after all these considerations, you find you really are overweight, then you just must diet and you just must exercise. Does dieting sound like an awful bore to you ? W ell, perhaps it will help you endure it if you think of it as a definite accessory of charm and a real gift toward beauty. A charming girl is one with vitality. Fat slows How not to do it! Anita Page does her fingerstouching-thefloor exercise incorrectly . Mustn't let your knees bend, Anita — and get out of those high-heeled slippers! Sylvia, Hollywood's famous masseuse, who keeps some of the loveliest picture girls in trim, illustrates the right way of body bending to attain suppleness. you up. An attractive girl is one who suggests youth, either real or simulated. A slender figure is a youthful figure. A beautiful girl is one with clear, transparent skin. If your diet is full of starches and fats you can't have clear skin. But isn't it worth dieting to attain youth, beauty and charm? I think it is. But be careful of what diet you choose. There are diets that are faddish. There are diets that are downright harmful. There are many that will reduce you very quickly but the damage they do to the nervous system, the face, and the morale is very serious indeed. Other diets are merely deceitful. PJy eliminating all liquids from one's meals and thereby cutting down the natural "water weight" of the body, they make the scales record a lighter figure. But once you return to your normal diet, the poundage returns. A good reducing diet, that will get you thinner and make you stay at your ideal weight, must be varied. It must contain all the essentials for health and eliminate only the things that make for excess. It must have tissue builders, energy builders, minerals and all four vitamins, and have them arranged so that some foods containing all these elements are eaten every day. What are tissue builders, you -ask, and what do they do? You'll find them in lean meat, cheese, fish, flour, peas, beans, milk, eggs and cereals. They keep your skin clear, your eyes bright and your hair healthy. Energy builders, which destroy fatigue, are in butter, bread, cereals, sugar and all sweets, potatoes, peas and beans. All fresh vegetables contain minerals. Milk is particularly valuable. All raw vegetables and raw fruits contain vitamins. So, for a reducing diet you not only can eat lots of things— but you should eat them. You can reduce and yet have, every day, some meat, cheese or fish ; two fresh vegetables ; some butter ; at least a slice of bread ; milk ; raw fruit, preferably oranges, and a quart of water. Xow isn't that easier and more pleasant than "doing'' without something — bread and butter, for instance, or all vegetables? Following such a plan, you will not have to live on oranges alone, or lamb chops and pineapple, or cucumbers and stale toast, or some such senseless combination of foods. Remember that (Continued on page 100)