The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-07-30
TALKS ABOUT HEALTH.
A WORD - NY Ras FrtsnAs.
By DIo LEWIS, NJ. d.

Perhaps you fancy your shape. You
do look comfortable and jolly. But, an Q
psychologist, | must find fault with your
obesity, like emaciation, is a sort of dis.
ease - unfavorabls to health and long
life.
This warm weather makes you pant and
perspirc.
met one of your number down on the
beech. the other day II was warm af
lerpoon. He was very uncomfortable
We stopped to chat moment, when he
explained
i would give ten thousand dollars to
pc reduced to one hundred and 6fty
pounds. ! pant. wheess. and swss,; pant
~heeze. 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
pc can give me something that will whit.
tle me down; do you think it can be
lones"
"Oh, yes, / replied. "nothing is easi !.
er; but it Is quite unnecessary to take
any medicine. Suppose, sir, You have a
very fat horse, much in the condition of
yourself. and some doctor we're TO propose
70 reduce his weight with medicine. wha.
would you ssyy'
should tsff him that I could re5uce
bis weight by reducing the amour. of his
food"
Just 30; and you would Be quite right
Allow me 10 commend The same practice
70 yourssf. Reduce the quantity Of your
food one quarter, and I venture to say that
10 month you will weigh from Eve to
tss pounds lees than nov. At the end of
the FIRST month reduce the amount of
your food another quarter. Within three
or ak months you viii 6nd yourself light
fr BY twenty to City pounds. Your d.
gsstion will be much healthier, your re-.
4piratisn freer, and your activity and en-
durance greatly increased" :"
But" said be. II don't eat half ar
much as some thin men whom / know. !"
"This is not improbable, and / pre-
sumo their excessive eating keeps them
: hin, ss with your tendency, excessive
eating produces fat. II they were to 70.
auce the quantity of their food, they
would, like yourself. tend toward the
bormal standard they would gain in
Weight while you would losc."
He promised to try it, and started on.
10 horse car the other day, / met
4ix corpuleHt, uncomfortable men, all
quite sure TO die prematurely Every
one of them might, in six or twelve
months. be raduced to the normal stand.
ara, anu -uJuy ass.~o ~r L~-s-.- -
Iivity to which he is now q stranger. Is
any physiological statement more self.evi-
dent than that every fat person eats more
thsn he needs?
"But exclaims some fat young wo-
man, who would "give the world" TO be
. good shape. Il cannot 60 hungry and
faint forever"
This remark shows you have never
tried what / have suggested. 1t is only
The great eater who is troubled with hun
ger and "goneness. If you would re-
auce the quantity of your food, even one
alf an ounce, after three days you will
not suffer from faintness or hunger The
man who eats ,emperat.ly of unstimula
ting food, rarely knows, the sensation of
hunger
ln the light Of these undeniable state
ments, how silly the practice, common
among girls, of swallowing acids, and
other killing things; and among men,
steepiDg 10 tobacco, to reduce the flesh.
have personally known scores of young
women whose health has been ruined by
drinking vinegar, or eating chalk and
other indigestible things. all to take away
their tat.
And have known q still greater num-
Der to ruin themselves with corsets, in
the hope Of keeping themselves comfy
and in shape.
/ have met hundreds Of fat men who
were bssmeared and saturated with to
bacco juice-otjects Of disgust to all be-
holders, terror 10 decent housekeepers,
persgrinating stench-pots, and al to keep
their fesh down
My poor. dear, fat simpletons, allow
me to prescribe for you.
Rise early; exsreiss much. psrtieulsrly
in the spse air; bashe ffsqueotiy, rubbing
the skin very hard but most important Of
all, eat plain, coarss food, and rednce the
quantity until you End yourself growing
thinner two or three pounds per week -
Yoursluggishness, shortbreath, and other
discomforts viii soon leave you, and you
will become bright. Clear headed, and