Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-17
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An Antf-FatDiet.


 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: Perhaps the best method for reducing obesity is an intelligent selection for the table of such foods as contain the smallest propor- tion of fat-producing material.
 The fat of our bodies is derived from three kinds of food. First, the fats, either animal or vegetable, which we eat pass essentially unchanged through the digestive process, and are deposited as such in the living tis- sues. Sugar also is to some extent convert cd by the wonderful laboratory within us into fat identical with that which it goes to augment and, lastly, all the starchy part of our food is changed during the process of digestion into sugar, which mixes with and reaches the same destination a9that which is sugar from the beginning.
 Thus it becomes evident how few foods there are which lack these fattening clements entirely. Practically, however, a table can be arranged including foods which contain the smallest proportion of starch, fat or sugar, which would serve as a valuable guide to such as desire to reduce their weight. Reg ulating the amount of food ingested is ob- viously of much importance also; for some people are So organized that they seem to ap- propriate and deposit every atom that can be converted into fat, so that spare diet is de- sirable, as little being eaten as will maintain Iue Aoal6A dIIO StE0nSGn un1mpa1f6Q. I0OS6 who find difficulty in controlling the appetite might practice a little deception on their stomachs by selecting those foods that are bulky and at the same time but slightly nu- tritious-on similar principle to that of the boarding house, where soup is offered you first that, being so far filled up, less room may be left for the more costly viands
 Strict attention to the following rules, then for a month or two would, I think, cause the scales to give very satisfactory evidence for this treatment, without expense and the more or less deleterious results of medication:
 ANrI-FAT DIET.
 foods largely composed of white Of eggs and tripe, fat-Fat meats, butter, lean meats and fish, oys- oils, etc. ters etc.
 Foods largely saccha- Sub-acid and succulent rine-sugar, pastry, etc. fruits-melons and or Foods largely composed anges, entrants and ber- of starch-cornstarch and ries pears, peaches etc. meal, tapioca and Sago, The less starchy and rice and fine four, pota- watery vegetables-peas 0f cehoo sbe drinks whole Rha %he sonr "sn os nnd Eating more than is toes, squash, etc. necessary. Soups for first course
 Drink water.
 Abundant exercise.
 It is a great shame that the converse of these rules will not apply with equally good results, to that still larger number of men and women who bewai1 their leanness for these people are usually so constituted natu- rally, or their digestion so impaired by un- healthful habits of life, that although they are furnished with abundant material they fail to assimilate fat and acquire the much-desired contour. So far as it goes, however, and in connection with invigorating measures and mental and physical hygiene, the selection of and otherwise nutritious foods is indicated YOUNG PHYSICIAN.