Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-06-28
Curing Fat With Eat.

Ebstein's much talked of treatise on
the cause and cure Of obesity may re.
vive hopes which the practical failure
Of other systems had almost Quenched.
He knows he Ia right, and is not afraid
to say so. Mr.. BaAtipg's dietary,
though irksome. was not ascetic, but
to many patients it was so weakening
that for one who has been relieved by
it a dozen have experienced actual ia
| jury. 1t is easy 10 become thin by net
taking sufficient food to supply the
waste that is continually going on,
though in this case the cure is worse
than the disease. Professor Ebstein
SCORES all such treatment. He will
have nothing in the shape of starvation
remedies, because while we are starv-
ing we sacrifice albumen as well as fat,
and the Joss of fat during famine causes
anamia, which demands compensation
in the shape of a more plentiful diet,
in itself likely 10 lead 10 still greater
accumulation of the very substance of
which it is desiued to get rid. Equally
useless and inadequate, in his opinion.
are the various drink cures, be they hot
| or cold. Professor Ebstein agrees
with Mr.. Banttng in advocating regi.
men alone as the only safe cure for an
| inconvenience which most frequently
! results from too much food. But be
adopts a dietary widely different from
that prescribed by Mr.. Banting, or
rather, by DR.. Harvey, the practitioner
whose maxims that gentleman enlarged
and made his own.
The crucial difference is on the
qvestion of eating fat. Fat is the
sheet anchor of DR.. Ebstein. So far
| from making one fatter, it is able by
combining with the albuminous mater.
| ials, and the carbo- bydrates, each in
| due proportion, to, operate effectively
against obesity, the removal of which
resolyes itself into question Of per-
manent change of habits, based on
physiological principles. No one
need expect TO become thin in few
weeks, nor will permanent improve
ment In figure be guaranteed, if the
regimen is not adhered to for the re-
maiDder of the patients life. Inan.
| ition must be avoided, and the fat
taken TO avoid the cravings of appe-
tile must be of unsxceptionable quail
| ity. No dyspeptic, we are assured,
need fear fat so long as he does not
take too much, and indeed, so admira-
bic is that substance, long dreaded by
delicate stomachs, that by cheek ing
heterogeneous waste, IT appeases thirst
as well as hunger, a fact, in part at
least, known even by Hippocrates.
Mr.. Bantng permitted any fish except
salmon; but DR.. Ebstein permits his
patients to enjoy, in moderation of
course, not only this dish, but pate du
foie gras and similar delicacies, which
| go far to reconcile the corpulent gour-
met to the exclusion of carbo-h ydrates.
carbohydrates are, indeed, his sole
detestation. Sugar is ia booed, as well
as sweets of all kinds, and potatoes in
every form he fosbids Internationally.
Three to three and onc-half ounces of
bread per day arc permitted and of
| vegetables, asparagus, spinach, cab
bage and the various leguines rich in
albumen are allowed. OF meats, he
excludes none, and it is needless to
add, that so far from wishing the fat
people to avoid the fat in the flesh, he
hegs them to pick out all they can
get. 81 permit" writes this liberal
minded exponent of the starving doc
tors, "bacon fat, fat roast pork and
mutton, kidney fat, and when no other
fat is at hand, / recommend marrow
to be added to the soups. | allow the
sauces to be made juicy, as did Hip.
pocrates, only for his sesam oil | sub
stitute butter"
Fat Is his stronghold. On this he de.
ponds not as a medicament, but as food.
1t has, in his opinion, been much ma
ligned article Of diet, and, though he
by no means recommends the men of
full body to consume third of what
the German soldier is allowed ia war
time, he is convinced that even with
two to three and one halt ounces. the
patient need not sat more than three
ffths of the meat which is requisite
under Mr.. Banting's system. His
dietary, it may be remembered, is
calculated for the meridian of Hano.
yer, and hence, three mcals-break-
fast, dinner and supper-are allowed.
These answer fairly to our breakfast,
lunch and late dinner. On no condi-
ton must there be an afternoon tea, or
other snacks' between meals. Alec.
holic drinks are permitted to the extent
of two or three glasses of light wine
at dinner, but beer is barred, unless,
indeed, the permitted carbo. hydrates
be correspondingly restricted, though
| even then, tho ale accepted as an
equivalent must be extremely mod
crate in amount. The diet of cured
patient was something like the follow.
ing: For breakfast, large cup of
black tea without milk or sugar, and
two ounces of bread, with plenty of
butter. For dinner, soup, often with
marrow, four TO six ounces of roast or
boiled meat, vegetables in modera.
ton, but no potatoes and almost no
saccharine turnips. After dinner a
little fresh fruit, or q salad, or stewed
fruit without sugar, with two or three
glasses of light wine, followed by
large cup Of black tea, without milk
or sugar. Supper of blabk tea, fat
roast meat, or eggs or some ham with
fat bologna sausage, smoked or fresh
fish, and little bread, we'll buttered,
with cheese and fresh fruit form cd tho