Reducing diets are always interesting and much in demand despite their dangers, as illustrated in the untimely death of Miss Renate Mueller, the actress. Men in Shanghai, as well women, are open to suggestions as to reducing the more specially at this time when they wold like their returning wives to regard them as having wasted away under the horrors of the siege and from loneliness.
This subject hay been duly considered by "Vogue" and a week's menus are given, adaptable with a few substitutions to Shanghai's resources at the moment. Sample menus and re-cipos are quoted, together with sage advice.
The trouble with so many diets is that they get you down in more ways than one. When you subsist on some trick food regimen, you are taking a serious gamble with your health. Wrinkles are just as apt to appear on your face as pounds to disappear from your figger. And besides, your food (and maybe even you) becomes a colossal bore.
In the midst of the confusing sea of Hay and Hollywood, of hard-boiled eggs and tomatoes, of pineapple andi. lamb-chops, "Vogue" presents this balanced, slenderizing diet. It is a diet that has been prepared under medical supervision by an authority who believes that a reducing diet need not be divorced from good food.
One is not to undertake this diet unless one is a normally healthy person, with nothing more serious the matter than superfluous pounds. It has been planned for one week, but the variety is sufficient so it won't bore for a second. If you follow this regimen conscientiously, you will normally lose three or four pounds a week, about as rapidly as is considered safe to lose anyway. And you will fare very well indeed.
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