The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-05-17

Dio Lewis tells the public through
the N. Y. Independent how to become
fat. He says:
1st, BE thankful that you are not fat.
Mans body is designed foruse. Lean,
flexible, active folks should be duly
grateful that they do not waddle,
wheezee and sweat. Besides, your
chance for long life. is, on the whole
better than of the fat man. So be
grateful, that your case is not worse,
is your first duty. aarq ssmof
I'd, You must begin the consideration
of your emancipation with the physio-
logical fact that the quantity and quail
ty your flesh depend upon the char
acter of your digestion. ~
The dyspeptic. and consnmptive eat
enormous quantities Of nutritious. food,
but grow thinner day by day. Lean
people are, not unfrequently, great eat
ers; but the food is not appropriated.
Such bodies are like our Peninsular ar
my, which receiving constant supplies
Of men and horses, constantly decrease
in size and strength: SONY dear shad-
ows, you see we must determine, first,
what will give you more thorough di-
gestion and assimilation. You proba-
bly, eat too much. The digestive appa-
ratus is compelled to undertake so
much, it can do nothing well. Remcm-
ber it is not the quantity eaten, but that
digested, which determines your flesh
and strength. Eat less! And as the
saliva plays very important part in
the function of digestion, masticate
thoroughly, drinking little or nothing
by way of helping the food in your
stomach.
Sd. Eat but twice a day, and, unless
in the midst of hard labor, let the sec-
ond meal come as early as two or three
O'Clock. So important do regard the
two-meals-a-day system for certain
classes of invalids, that rarely pre-
scribe for consumptiye or dyspeptic
without making the rule imperative.
If the patient is to eat twenty or even
twenty-five ounces of food per day;
it is greatly better to cat it in two
meals. And / may add, that for all
classes ofpersons. believe it would
prove q great advantage, in q physio-
logical point ofview, to change from
the present system to two meals a day.
/ wish / had space to give my reasons
for this at length, as have in another
place. g i Fr hsrlossa
4th. For breakfast, eat coarse bread,
cream, and baked sweet apples; for
dinner, beef or mutton, mot Aeal or
lamb with coarse bread, potatoes, and
all vegetables Of the season, except to-
matoes; for desert, use ffuitlud hbitum.
If possible, sleep little after dinner.
18th. You must sleep in pure atmos-
phcre; go to bed early as nine o'clock,
and, rising by six, walk slowly in the
open air half an hour or more, drinking
two or three tumblers of cold water,
9Th. Spend the evening in social en-
joyment. Happiness with laughter are
the best friends Of digestion Z, 2 H
18th. Live rs much as possible in the
open air, never forgetting that after the
food has been well digested, in the
stomach; it must mingle good supply
of oxygen in the lungs beforeit can be
transformed into the tissues of the body.
Bad food with a pure air will make
flesh faster than the best food in an inn
pure atmosphere. q. rl 9di p
sth. Bathc frequently, that the effete
matter in hesystein may easily escape,
and thus afford the best opportunity for
the deposition Of the new material.
9th. If married, cultivate assiduously
the quiet sentiments of domestic life.
unmarried, and of proper age and
health, seek in this most perfect and
satisfactory of all earthly relations that
freedom from the fret and discomfort
oflife which only a true marriage can
give. tg M p ~