Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-03-03
Fat and Lean People.

People who come under our hands
professionally, ladies especially, ask
what they can do to be less fat or stont.
while others again wish to know how
they can gain ten or twenty pounds.
Now, the amount of flesh depends great
" ON the course of living, though some
constitutionally have fuller habit than
others, while some seem to be cOnstitu-
tionally thin. In nine case out OF ten,
those who are burdened with obesity,
who have red faces and pimples, who
are SO tieshy that they canot exertthem-
selves without getting out OF breath, who
are too plump to be graceful or comfort
able-get into this condition by means
of what they eat; and large proportion
of those who are thin are SO
because their diet is not that
which is best calculated 10 pro-
duce proper health and comfortable
fullness. Generally, these fat redfaced
people, who are inclined TO pimples, are
of the blonde order, Those who are of
the brunette order, instead of pimples.
have brown, rough complications; but
both originate in the same dietetic errors.
We caution such people that they should
eat sugar very sparing ly; that they should
exclude the use of butter or oily matters,
and especially puddings and pastry that
are rich with lard or butter or sugar.
They generally reply: "Bnt am very
fond of all that You mention, and eat a
great deal of candy and drink my coffee
as sweet as 1t can be-"
When persons can digest starch, or,
in other words, tine flour in all its forms
pudding, pastry, also butter, sugar,
aud oily matter generally become
loaded with fat, because these articles
tend to producte fairness. and not strength
or yieor. Such food provides nothing
for the upbuilding of brain or muscle.
II will often be found that fat, people
are very weak; they have neither tough
ness nor strength. On the other hand,
thin people are often SO by using the
articles OF diet which made the other
people fat; they cannot digest the
sugar, butter, and fine -four to any con-
siderable extent consequently their
systems are kept in a feverish, dyspep.
teal state; they become nervous 10
the last degree. and the fact il that
their life is being burned out, and
many such people go into con-
sumption for no other reason than
that their diet is such as to produce an
intiammatory state; while the people
who can digest such food lay it on in the
shape of fairness, and die, prematurely,
of fatty degeneration Of the heart, liver
or kidneys. We could recite cases where
people have gained ten pounds month
by changing their diet, and we remem-
Der one lady who was 81 years OF age,
and weighed 276 pounds. We advised
her to adopt the use of lean meat, Ora
ham bread and simple vegetables, with
tart fruit, and though she maintained
her strength and vi gor she fell off six
poundsa month for six months, and was
working down to ITO, which was about
the proper weight for one of her frame.
And we remember an opposite case
that of a young man who weighed l03
pounds and stood five feet eight inches
high. He was using articles which kept
his system blazing hot-such as sugar,
butter and fine -four. We advised him
to take Graham bread, oatmeal and beef.
md in less than three months he had
reached the weight ofl35 pounds. Peo-
pie someumes near It SAID that sugar,
butter and fine -four produce fairness,
and so they do in people who can digest
them, though they produce nothing else
but heat and fairness; and thin people
adopt this carbonaeeons diet,
which will make a
person fat who has perdominance of
the vital temperament, and who has an
excellent digestion, while these articles
in the system of the thin only produce
feverisnness, and biliousness, and they
are kept in meaner condition than they
were by the very means which they
adopted to make them fat. The truth
is that proper diet, such as wheat
entire (the whole of it being takenl,
milk as provided by nature, vegetables,
fruit, lean meat, constitute a normal
diet, and it will generally produce
normal amount of fairness; whereas an
artificial diet-such as spices and acids
and sweetenings and shortenings-tends
to keep the system in an I'M
healthful condition, and the result is
that not one person in ten is healthy,
and not one person in ten who is not
considered unhealthy, and is expected
to live to good old age, lives as long
by many years as he might if he had
subsisted on normal diet, and all slim
ulants and unnatural modes of living
had been avoided. 1t has been wisely
said that men dig their graves with
their teeth" and they do this not only
by drinking whiskey, but by drinking |
coffee, using tobacco, and in eating food
that is loaded down with material which
produces Inflammation in some, and bill
lousness, dyspepsia and bilious fever in
others.