4) “Anyhow, I come by it naturally—look at my own mother!”
5) “Besides, diets are dreadful.”
We won’t argue with you about thoughts 2, 3 or 4, assuming that you know more about your weight, your intake, and your mother than we do. But when you get to thought 5, we rise up, thus:
DIETS NEED NOT BE DREADFUL
(If this booklet doesn’t prove it, then you go right on eating food and we’ll have to eat the booklet.)
DON’T FALL FOR FALLACIES!
You can easily talk yourself out of dieting by falling for one of those old fallacies that women hug to their (ample) bosoms, namely:
“What I really need is a new girdle.”
“To be slim and svelte, all you need to do is to ooze yourself into our Streamliner Stretch.” Sez the ad. “Pooh!” sez we. Common courtesy should tell you that you have to meet a two-way stretch half-way. No sixteen-ounce trifle of satin and elastic is going to cope with 160 pounds of womanhood, and stay svelte. Science is wonderful, my dear, but it’s not that good!