Q. WHY DOES PROTEIN PLAY SUCH AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THIS DIET?
A. Because this particular nutrient is a vital key to feeling, looking and doing your best at all times. The more science proves about protein, the more we know of its importance in the daily diet. Your body can’t store protein ... you must have a new supply of it every day to build and renew body tissues. You can readily see, then, why protein is so necessary in reducing diets. Without it, body tissues waste away, muscles sag and pep lags.
Q. HOW SOON WILL YOU SEE RESULTS ON THIS REDUCING DIET?
A. You will lose from one to three pounds[3] a week. However, don’t be discouraged if you lose slowly at first or if you lose at an irregular rate. Remember, you gained all these extra pounds over a period of time. Give yourself time to lose them.
Q. IF YOU GET HUNGRY ... ARE “BETWEEN-MEAL” SNACKS ALLOWED ON THIS DIET?
A. Yes! Because they not only make dieting more pleasant, they are necessary! Nutritionally, a “between-meal” snack does two things: gives dieters an “energy lift” needed at late morning and late afternoon. Also, it dulls the appetite, making the dieter content with less food at the next meal. Remember, however, these snacks must be kept within your daily calorie pattern!
Choice-of-Foods diet allows you to have the famous Knox High-Protein Gelatine Drink 3 times a day.
(Yes, this is the same concentrated protein drink doctors have recommended for years ... as a pleasant way to get more protein in the daily diet of persons whose daily intake of this vital nutrient may be inadequate.) In the reducing diet, the Knox Drink works 3 ways: