Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-12-27
Eat or Lean.
HOW TO 1uILD Up OR REDUCE \ CoRPO
RAJ MAN

HOW TO bIILD Up OR REDL. \ CoRPO-
RAJ MAN
Having paid some attention to the sub
iect OF increasing and diminishing the
amount of adipOse tissue in the human
frame, perhaps ! may be permitted TO
say a word on the matter. 1t is quite
true that certain kinds OF diet are more tat
forming than others. but il does not there
fore fellow that a person living on this
kind Of diet-say. for instance, buck
wheat cakes and Barbados sugar-will
become tat. In many cases which have
come under my own observation. all at
tempts to increase the amount of tat by
means OF special diet (carbonaceous)
have ended in the person becoming bilious
and suffering from cOngested liver and
constipation. On the other hand, have
known persc rs 10 iatten on bread.and wa
ter The late NJ. Swain, of Philadelphia, Tor
many years of MS life ate nothing but
bread and mo.asses, yet he was q stout,
healthy-lookinG man. Mr.. Mech, the
eminent English agriculturlSt. according
to his own statement, can increase his
weight materially by merely taking an
extra lump or two of sugar in his tea.
Another gentleman became lat and
ruddy- y-cheeked by adding a pint Of ale TO
his midday repast. But these are excep-
tional eases. As a general rule, if Il
person in good health, obtaining seven or
eight hours sleep per night, and not
overworked, does not get fat on II mixed
diet, hc won't get fat at all, and neither
buckweheat cakes and BIrbadocs sugar,
nor cod-liver oil, nor any other fat
producer will iltten him. Sound sleep
is one Of the best fat-producers that /
know OF, and then il has the advantage
of increasing the general health aud
strength at the same time. Beware OF
altering vour diet for the mere purpose of
putting on more flesh. Results may
follow that you dream not of
1t is easier to reduce flesh than to iu-
crease it. as a general rule. But there
NAV be danger even here. Many Of those
obese gentlemen who followed the Ban
ting system, and tried to live on lean
meat, very little bread, and glass OF
two of sherry per day, found themselves
with seriously disordercd kidneys. the
result OF a highly nitrGoenous diet They
might have obtained that leauness for
which they sighed, and retained their
health, had they reduced the total quality
of TODD consumed, and eaten less bread,
potatoes, and starchy food, and m ore
turnips, cabbages. beats, cue umbers.
tomatoes, melons, and other watery arti-
cles of diet, and taken more exercise and
less sleep. As rule, fat people are
large eaters. They will tell you that
they are not Don't believe them. Flesh
and fat are not formed out of nothing A
stout Jouth of my acquaintance told me
that he ate "a mere nothing, - and only
slept tour hours per diem ] found that
he really ate as much at one meal rs |
could eat at three, took little or no excr-
clse, and slept nine or ten hours out of
the twenty-four. Laugh and grow tat
ls an old saying but have not found
fat people, as rule, mirthiul, but on the
contrary, rather grave. mean the very
fat, not the merely plump. Ihave, too,
met with tat people who were exceeding
ly nervous. though it is generally suppos
ed that nervous people must necessarily
be lean. IOyl SUI