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Seven classes will be represented, provided enough wrestlers sign up These are the 115, 125, 135, 145, 158, 175, pound and heavyweight classes. The usual three pounds overweight is allowed in each east. Final matches will probably be run off from Monday, January 9, to Wednesday, January 11, although the exact dates have not yet been fixed...
Stupid Reducers. At the meeting of the American Dietetic Association in Atlantic City, Supervisor Emma F. Holloway of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, declared: "A tiny snack for luncheon, another snack for dinner is proving disastrous to the modern girl, who is so afraid of being overweight. . . . Men, too, are at fault with their customary coffee and pie for luncheon. They are reducing their vitality and making themselves liable to colds and pneumonia...
Pale-skinned and obviously overweight, a huge mealy fellow whose labored breathing spoke of too many days spent at an indoor occupation and whose coated ribs hinted at a diet that contained too many starches, Georges Michel, Paris baker, staggered onto the beach having beaten the world's record for channel swimming with a time of eleven hours five minutes. Stalking into a tiny bar in St. Margaret's he had his double whisky and talked about the trip. Champagne, he said, had helped him. He had felt a little seasick but that had passed. Then a cramp...
...passage of the following resolution: "Whereas, reducing body weight has become a national mania, and "Whereas, many women and girls have injured their health by reducing nostrums and wrong and injurious methods of dieting, and by bringing themselves below their normal healthy weight, while others are dangerously overweight, and "Whereas, there are at present no adequate tables which tell women what they ought to weigh, therefore be it "Resolved, that we urge the women of America not to imperil their health and that of future generations by reducing methods other than those advocated by reliable physicians...
Last week in Manhattan the Presbyterian Hospital staff announced some preliminary findings instructive to parents who think all diabetic children waste away. The report, based on observations of 34 young diabetics, showed that all except four were overweight or overgrown during the early stages of the disease. Proper insulin treatment and intelligent dieting throughout life are essential for them. Without insulin at least, affected children under ten rarely live more than two years. Persons between 10 and 20 years endure two to four years; between 20 and 30, four to six years; after 30, 5 to 15 years...