| It is remarkable to find how many people eat out of | | | | soon and too often, even when doing simple things like |
| boredom, sheer habit, or to the accompaniment of a | | | | walking and swimming, things that the person of normal |
| newspaper, a book, or a heated business discussion. | | | | weight can handle with ease and pleasure. Don't let |
| Many succumb to the habit of eating at a "minute" | | | | too much weight rob you of a strong heart and the |
| diner, fast food restaurant or lunch counter, gulping their | | | | vibrant energy that you need to enjoy a full, healthy life. |
| food and running a "hoof and mouth" race with Father | | | | Learn to count your calories and you can count on |
| Time. (He always wins.) | | | | more years of healthy, happy living. |
| Others are trained from childhood to stuff | | | | We must remember that in the past 50-100 years |
| themselves-"finish your plate" (An old relic of primitive | | | | there has been a considerable reduction in energy |
| days when food scarcities or the uncertainties of a | | | | expenditure, because of a more mechanized way of |
| next meal or a next day were constantly present). | | | | life. People today don't have to go out to the barn and |
| Some call this "scavenger eating;" many children | | | | hitch up a horse or team or count on a long walk |
| acquire this habit by imitating their parents who are | | | | when they are ready to go somewhere. They merely |
| imitating their parents who may have been raised | | | | step into their car, which is as close to the front door |
| under food scarcity circumstances. | | | | as they can manage it, and then drive to their |
| Many men and women are the victims of monotony | | | | destination, again parking as near the entrance as |
| or plain poor cooking in their meals. They rarely vary | | | | possible. |
| the selection and choice of foods out of sheer inertia, | | | | The introduction of countless labor-saving devices in |
| indifference, or lack of attention. So they try to make | | | | our home, factories, andoffices has also robbed us of |
| up in quantity what they lack in quality, seeking | | | | most of the physical exertion our grandparents and |
| satisfaction from calories instead of from quality and | | | | great-grandparents knew. In fact, when it comes to |
| contrast. | | | | conserving energy, we seem to have approached |
| Dr. Arthur Master, in a study of a group of patients not | | | | about as near as we can get to a vegetable |
| suffering from heart disease, found that a significant | | | | existence. |
| loss of weight was followed by an average 35 per | | | | The message is clear; we must break our old bad |
| cent reduction in the work the heart has to do. The | | | | habits and develop new good ones if we want to lose |
| lesson to you is clear: Even though your heart is | | | | weight. Making healthier food choices whenever |
| strong, being overweight taxes it with work and strain | | | | possible, watching our portions at mealtime, and getting |
| beyond its normal capacity. A healthy heart is gradually | | | | in some exercise regularly are paramount if we want |
| weakened by the extra stress imposed on it by 20, 30 | | | | to keep our weight down and live a long, healthy, |
| or 40 pounds of unnecessary fat. | | | | happy life. |
| Your energy reserves are depleted; you feel tired too | | | | |