6. Delete the details.
7. Milk-cure.

_Review_

1. Repeat Elbert Hubbard's advice.
2. Give three reasons why worry can make
you thin.
3. Define "Medical Trust" and "League
for Medical Freedom."
4. Memorize paragraph about nature
5. Enumerate the things you can eat to
increase your calories.

7

Exercise

It is practically impossible to reduce weight through exercise alone,
unless one can do a tremendous amount of it. For the food that one eats
is usually enough to cover the energy lost by the exercise.

[Sidenote: _Light On Your Feet_]

However, exercise is a very important feature of any reducing program;
not because of the fat that is burned up in the exercise--and there is
some burned--but for the reason that it is necessary to keep one in a
healthy condition. The muscles, the internal organs, the bones, the
brain, are all benefited--in fact, the entire system.

[Sidenote: _Duty Dances_]

The exercises described hereinafter will help make you fat or thin, and
they will keep you supple, graceful, and light on your feet, so that
when I tell my husband that he must dance with you, Madam, he will not
say, "Nothing stirring," and when you, Professor, ask me to dance, I
will not curse the day I was born.

[Sidenote: _Warning_]

If you have not been accustomed to exercise, I warn you to take up only
one or two at a time and do each one a few times only. You will be
atrociously sore, and you will realize that you have muscles of which
you wotted not.

However, persist, if you are sure there are no organic reasons why you
shouldn't--such as a weak heart. (In case you are very much overweight,
I think it advisable to wait until you have reduced somewhat.)

[Sidenote: _Or Classic Dancing_]

It is splendid if you can belong to a gymnasium or to a physical culture
class, but ten to fifteen minutes' systematic daily exercise practiced
with vim, and each set followed by deep breathing, will do more good
than a gymnasium spasmodically attended. Brisk walking with a long
stride isn't so bad; in fact, if taken with a very long stride it will
twist 'most every organ you have in your body.

There are hundreds of exercises you can take. If you will notice little
rascal's illustrations you will find many good ones. Those illustrating
the beginning of this chapter are excellent.

If possible, it is best to take the exercises on arising in the morning,
but if