Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-10
Fat and Thin People.
HOW FAT PEOPLE MAY GET THEMSELVES
INTO SHIP-SHAPE. -r's.

HOW FAT PEOPLE MAY GET THEMsELvE:
| INTO SHIP-SHAPE. rr
Even in New England there are :
great many uncomfortably fat peo
pie. 1 say even in New England
because it is supposed that Yankees
are a gaunt, ghostly folk. But il
an audience Of five hundred, almost
anywhere in New England, you may
see dozen uncomfortably fat peo
ple-waddling, wheezy, anti-go-up
stairs sort of people. Down il
Pennsylvania, in an audience of the
same size, especially if you are in 6
country district, the proportion Of
fat ones is very large. Let me give
you a Casa funny case. An i'm
mensely fat, painting, red-faced wo-
man came to me with a fat word in
her mouth, "obesity," and, standing
before me, exclaimed:
doctor, just look at me! Amt
1 sight to behold? This is the
torment of my life. l shouldn't
weigh more than one hundred and
thirty pounds, but 1 do weigh two
hundred and twenty. Now, just
think of my carrying that extra
ninety pounds whenever l move
What can be done for me? All sum
mer long 1 pant and perspire, and
wish myself in Greenland. When l
walk the street, my sister says l
look just like a Berkshire pig. When
l go up stairs in hurry, / just lose
my breath altogether, and plump
myself down into a chair, and gasp
it back again. Now what can be
done for me, Doctor?"
"Has your husband a horse?'
[ I already knew he had several
g Oh, yes; why you know he keeps
a stable full"
"Do they ever get fat?'
"Oh, yes; you know my husband
keeps fat horses. I hear about
nothing else the year round, but
"2.4O, 2.31aa," and that s'they are too
fat" and that "they are out of con
dition,'' and all the rest of it; you
know the phrases"
When your husbands horses get
too fat, can he reduce themY'
"Oh, yes; very easily"
"How does he do it?"
Why, he reduces their food, and
gives them more exercise.
Madam, all have to say is, ego
thou and do likewise
"What! starve? Why, 1 have
tried that for months together.
What l have eaten wouldn't keep a
mosquito alive; and 1 have grown
fatter and fatter all the time"
Madam, you must excuse me,
but what you are saying lacks ac-
curacy. You eat and drink too
much, or you would not be in this
condition.
Well, how little should 1 eat?"
II cannot tell you that; but l can
say that you should reduce the
quantity which you are now eating,
and that you should live with very
little drink. This will help you
much.
"To be particular, let me say, go
on with just such food as you like.
If you are fond of meat, all the bet
ter; increase the proportion Of that
article little. Masticate the food
very thoroughly, so that you will
not need much drink to swallow it.
When you have a desire for drink,
content yourself with single
mouthful. In a week or two, you
will be surprised to find how the
wish for water has disappeared. If
you can learn to get on with one
tumblerful of water, or other drink
per day, this fat, shaky condition
will at once begin to disappear.
But to speak of your food again,
reduce the quantity you now eat
one-quarter, and after, say two
months, reduce another quarter.
This reduction will probably be suf-
ficient, if you rigidly observe what
1 have said about drinks.
If, in addition to this, you exer-
else yourself into a profuse perspir-
alton once or twice day, you will
be astonished to find how soon your
clothes will be growing loose. Why,
madam, there is not fat person un-
der fifty years of age in the country,
who might not get himself or her
self into comfortable proportions in
less than half a year."
"Doctor, what do you think of
Banting's system?'
81 think just this. If people have
no control over their appetites, that
system is a good thing, although
sure to produce an abnormal condi-
ton of the tissues. We cannot use
meat above a certain percentage in
our food, without deranging the
general health. A feverish, hard
pulse, and certain condition of the
stomach and liver which will show
itself in a darkening of the COM
plexion-these and other symptoms
will show, when we eat more meat
than we should, that the vital pro-
cesses are not going on well; and
besides, this expedient which Bant-
ing advises of living on meat, is en-
tirely unnecessary. 1t is infinitely
better to keep up about the usual
proportions of meat and vegetable
food, and simply reduce the guam
tity."
"But, Doctor, if 1 go into this
thing as you advise, it seems to me
that 1 shall hardly be able to keep
on my feet, I shall be SO weak"
Madam, you are entirely mista-
ken. Any person when too fat will
only experience sense of lightness
and increasing strength, when ma
king a judicious reduction in the
amount of food and drink. He will
breathe better, move quicker, and
feel that great load is being re-
moved.
For example, man weighs, say
two hundred and fifty pounds, and
should weigh, to be active and
healthy, one hundred and seventy
five pounds. This man is carrying
about an extra seventy-five pounds,
interfering with his respiration and
activity. in other words, cutting
short tho tuo orraot conditions of