Many Years Ago "Guideposts" Magazine Told About ...

Many years ago “Guideposts” magazine told about Mary Bower MacKorell, whose doctor suggested she take off several pounds. The diet plans, dietetic food and calorie-counted drinks didn’t work. Once while watching TV and eating, she saw a program about cooking, which pictured luscious dishes.

Contrasted with that, she saw a photo through the mail of an emaciated dark-skinned boy in Haiti. (The youth and KWs support a boy and a girl in Haiti.) His scrawny chest and limbs made him look like a skeleton.

She began to think that physicians are now transplanting hearts, and why could she not take the pounds off herself and transfer them to the body of a starving child? For ten days she ate only two meals, skipping lunch. In that period she saved $10 and lost 5 lbs.

Through the mail again she got an appeal on behalf of the starving millions in India. “Buy a bowl of rice a day for a starving child. That bowl of rice will cost about $10 per month.”

Imagine what could happen if every American man bewailing his lost waistline, or every housewife letting out her seams once more, could claim for himself a similar experience. The result could be health on one side of the world, life on the other, and a bridge of caring stretching around the globe.