The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-09-23
MisGelIaneons SRIGttiOns.
HOW to Become Thin.

How to Become Thin.
The september number of Good
Health publishes some extracts from
forthcoming book by Dio Lewis,
from which we select the following
on obesity.
Even in New England there are a
great many uncomfortable fat peO-
pie. l say even in New England,
because it is supposed that Yankees
are gaunt, ghostly folk. But in
audiences of five hundred, almost
anywhere in New England, you may
see q dozen uncomfortable fat people
I-wadding, wheezy, anti-go-up-stairs
sort of people. Down in Pennsyl
vania, in an audience of the same
size, especially if you are in coun-
try district, the proportion of fat ones
is very large. Let me give you
Casa funny case. An immensely
fat, painting, red-faced woman came
to me with fat word in her mouth,
obesity and, standing before me
exclaimed;
Doctor, just look at me! Amt
| l sight to behold? This is the tor
ment of my life. l shouldn't weigh
jmore than one hundred and thirty
pounds, but l do weigh two hundred
and twenty. Now just think of my
carr, ing that extra ninety pounds
whenever I move. What can be done
for me2 All summer long 1 pant and
perspire, and wish myself in Green
Hand. When I walk the street, my
sister says 1 look just like Berk-
shire Pig. When l go up stairs in
a hurry, 1 just lose my breath alto
Igether and plump myself down into
a chair, and gasp it back again.
Now, what can be done for me, Doc
ltorp'
"Has your husband a horser III
ALREADY knew he had several.
"Oh! yes; why, you know he
keeps stable full"
"Do they ever get fat?"
"Oh! yes; you know my husband
keeps fast horses. 1 hear about
nothing else the year round but
l'2.4O, 2.318,' and that they are too
fat and that they are out of condi-
tion,' and all the rest Of it: you
know the phrases"
"When your husbands horses get
too fat, can he reduce them|
"Oh! yes; very easily
"How does he do itT'
why, he reduces their food, and
gives them more exercise"
Madam, all 1 have to say is: Go
thou and do likewise :"
"What! starye? Why, have tried
that for months together. What 1
have eaten wouldn't keep mosqui-
to alive; and I have grown fatter
and fatter all the time"
MADAM, you must excuse me, but
what you are saying lacks accuracy.
You eat and drink too much, or you
would not be in this condition"
"Well, how little should l eat?"
Il cannot tell you that: but l can
say that you should reduce the guam
tity which you are now eating, and
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.
1t you are fond of meat all the better;
increase the proportion Of that arti-
Gle little. Masticate the food thor
oughly, so that you will not need so
lmuch drink to swallow it. When
you have 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, thisssfat,
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
r have said about drinks.
"If in addition to this, you exer-
else yourself into a profuse perspi-
, ration once or twice a day, you will
be astonished to find how soon your
clothes will be growing loose. Why,
madam there is not a 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 year."
doctor, what do you think OF
Banting's system?'
81 think just this: 1fpeople have
no control over their appetites, that
: system is a good thing, although
d sure to produce an abnormal condi-
E tion Of the tissues. We cannot use
meat above a certain percentage IN
our food without deranging the gen
o eral health. A feverish, hard pulse
and certain condition of the stom
ach and liver which will show itsel
in darkening of the complexion
these and other symptoms will show
when We eat more meat than W.
should, that the vital processes arr
not going on well; and besides, thi'
expedient, which Banting advises, o
living on meat is entirely unnece
ssary. 1t is infinitely better to keel
up the usual proportions of mea
! and vegetable food, and simply re
-" duce the quantity"