Weight Reduction Diet and Dishes

A study of the history of man has shown him at all times concerned with his self-preservation and protection in a world which was full of unforeseen and often unpleasant contingencies. Abstention from food or drink in the interests of a propitiating diety and later on asceticism in the hope of salvation in the next world were often the motives. The present century has however seen a waning absorption in the future and a greater attention of man on himself, his fellows and the present. The cult of weight reduction by diet and exercise is probably designed to attain better health, retain youth, and the approval of others, in which notably the desire for sex appeal plays a large part. The methods employed, namely diet and exercise, are probably the modern form of the abstention practised by primitive