As for appetite and exercise
while it is true that a thin
person in good condition may eat more after increased activity, his exercise
will burn up the extra calories. But the overly fat person does not react the
same way; only when he exercises to excess will he experience an appetite
increase, since he has large stores of fat, and moderate exercise in his case
is not likely to stimulate appetite. This difference between the response to
exercise of fat and thin people is an important one.
There are many opportunities to be found throughout the day
for using up calories through little extra bits of activity. You can, for ex-
ample, use up 100 calories with 20 minutes of gardening, 30 minutes of ironing,
or 30 minutes of playing with the children. Any time you get up from behind a
desk, walk about the room, perhaps just bend and stretch for a few times, you
will not be burning up great quantities of calories- but do this every hour or
two, and at the end of the week you will have burned a significant number.
IS MASSAGE A REDUCING AID? No.
Massage may tone up the skin
and muscles and help the body adjust to its new, slimmer contours. Your doctor
will know when to recommend massage if it would help.
CAN HOT BATHS OR SWEATING
HELP?
Only temporarily, since they serve merely to eliminate water, which is
almost immediately regained. Not only do these methods achieve no permanent
results of value but they may put a strain on heart and circulation. Sauna
baths, recently fashionable, expose the body to high temperatures to bring
about violent sweating. This is a shock to the body, sometimes doubling the
pulse rate, as much of a shock as sudden and violent exercise.
To be sure,
saunas have long been popular in Finland, but the Finns use saunas over a
lifetime rather than starting suddenly in flabby middle age, and they dash
water on heated stones, producing a more humid and more tolerable (and possibly
safer for the lungs) type of heat than electrically heated American saunas.
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