, 1863-10-03

Perhaps you fancy your shape. You do
look comfortable and jolly. But. as a phys
iologist, l must find fault with your obe,i-
ty. Like emaciation, it is a sort of disease
unfavorable to health and long life
This warm weather makes you pant and
perspire.
met one of your number down on the
beach the other day. 1t was warm after
noon. II was very uncomfortable. He
stopped to chat moment, when he ex-
claimed:
81 would give ten thousand dollars to
be reduced to one hundred aud so lbs. |
pant, wheeze and sweat; pant, wheeze and
sweat, every time Stir"
Looking earnestly into my face, he said;
doctor, what can you do for me What
can take? My family doctor tells me he
can give something that will whitte me
down; do you think it can be done p
"Oh. yes,' l replied, nothing is easier;
but it is quite unnecessary to take any
medicine. Suppose sir, you have very
fat horse, much III the condition of your
self. and some doctor was to propose to re-
duce his weight with medicine, what would
you say?"
Il should tell him that I could reduce
his weight by reducing the amount of his
food"
"Just 50; and you would be quite right.
Allow me to commend the same practice to
yourself Reduce the quantity of your
food ne-quarter, and l venture to say that
in month you will weigh from five to ten
l., l,ee Tho ,c Il
first month reduce the amount of your
food another quarter. Within three or six
months you will find yourself lighter by
twenty to fifty pounds. Your digestion
will be much healthier, your respiration
freer, and your activity and endurance
greatly increased"
But" said he, 81 don't eat half as
much as some thin men whom l know"
"This is not improbable, and l presume
their excessive eating keeps them thin, as,
with your tendency, excessive eating pro-
duces fat. If they we're to reduce the
quantity Of their food, they would, like
yourself, tend toward the normal standard
they would gain in weight, while you
would lose,''
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In horse car the other day, met six
corpulent, uncomfortable men, all quite
sure to die prematurely. Every one of
them might, in six or twelve months, be re
duced to the normal standard, and enjoy a
degree of health aud activity to which he
is now stranger. Is any physiological
statement more self-evident than that every
fat person eats more than he needs
But" eXclaims some fat young woman,
who would give the world to be in good
shape, Il cannot go hungry and faint for
ever"
This remark shows you have never tried
what | have suggested 1t is only the
cater who is troubled with hunger and
'goneness. If you would reduce the
quantity of your food, even one half, at
once, after three days you would not suffer
from faintness or hunger. The man who
eats temperately of unstimulating food,
rarely knows the sensation of hunger
In the light of these undeniable state
ments, how silly the practice among girls
of swallowing acids, and other killing
things; and among men, sleeping in to-
bacco to reduce the flesh. l have personally
known scores Of young women whose
health has been ruined by drinking vine
gar, or eating chalk or other indigestable
things, all to take away their fat.
And have known still greater num-
Der to ruin themselves with corsets, with
the hope of keeping themselves comely and
in shape.
have met hundreds of fat men who
were besmeared and saturated with tobsc-