Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-05-29
Fat - Z Cure q obesity.

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70 many people corpulence il soseA-
Gus an inconvenience that the anr,kar-
1nce in an English dress of DR.. Ebstsin's
much taiked-of treatise on the cause
ana cure of obesity may revive hopes
which the practical failure of sSher avs.
TENS had almost quenched. He knows
ne IS right, and is not afraid to say 80.
ME- Bantlng's dietsry, though irksome,
was not ascetic, but to many patients It
was 50 weakening that for one who has
been relieved by it . dozen have ex-
Perienced actual injury. It is easy to
become thin by not taking sufficient
food to supply the waste which is con-
annually going on, though in this case
The cure is worse than the disease.
frof. Ebstein scorns all such treatment.
he will have nothing in the shape of
starvation remedies, because while we
are starving We sacrifice alburnen AZ
well as fat, and the loss of fat DURING
famine causes anRmia, which demands
compensation in the shape of a moro
plentiful diet, in itself likely to lead to
a still greater accumulation of the very
substance of which it is desired to oet
get rid. Equally useless and made
quate in his opinion are the various
drink cures. be they hot or cold. Prof.
Ebstein agrees with Mr.. Ranting in adj
vocatlng regimen alone as the ONLY safe
cure Tor an Inconvenience which most
frequently results from too much food.
But he adopts dietary widely differ
emit from that prescribed by Mr.. Baat.
1ng, or, rather, by Dr. Harvey. the
practitioner whose maxims that GENTLE
men enlarged and made his own.
The crucial difference is ON the nuoa.
ton OF eating fat. Eat is the sheet
anchor of Dr. Ebstein So far from
making one fatter, it is able, by sscom-
bining with the albuminous materials
and the Carlo hydrates,' each in due
proportion. to operate effectively against
OBESITY, the removal of which resolves
itself rather into question of perma-
nent change of habits based on physio-
logical principles than of mere cure in
the ordinary aecel tation of the term,
No one need expect to become thin in a
lew weeks, nor will q permanent i'm
provemcnt in figure be guaranteed if
the regimen is not adhered to for the
remainder of the patients life. Inani-
ton must be avoided, and the fat taken
20 satisfy the cravings of appetite must
be OF unexceptionable quality. No dys-
Peptic, we are assured, need fear fat so
long as he does not take too much, and.
indeed, so admirable is that substance,
long dreaded by delicate stomachs, that,
by checking heterogeneous waste, it APP
peases thirst as well as hunger, q fact,
IN part at least, known even by HIP
Pocrates- Mr.. Banting permitted any
fish, except salmont but DR.. Ebstein
encoura res his patients to enjoy, ..in
moderation, of course" not only this
dish. but pate de toie gras and similar
deiicacies. which go far to reconcile the
corpalent gournaet to the exclusion of
carbohydrates 'Carho-hydrates'' are,
indeed, mis- sole detestation. Sugar
is tabooed, as we'll as sweets
of all kinds, and potatoes in
every form he forbids Internationally.
Three to three and half ounces of
bread per day are permitted, and veg
etables, asparagus,s spinach, cabbage,
and the various legumes rich with albu-
men 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 begs them to
pick ont all they can get. 81 permit, :"
writes this liberal-miIded op-
Donent of the starving doctors"
~@bacon fat, fat roast pork and mutton,
kidney fat, and when no other fat is at
hand / recommend marrow to be added
20 the soups. allow the sauces as well
as the vegetables to be made Juicy, al
did HippOcrates, only for his sesam oil
substitute butter" Fat is his strong
hold. On this he depends. not as q
medicament, but as food: it has, in
his opinion, been q much mafigned ar
ticle of diet. and though he by no
means recommends the men of full
body to consume third of what the
German soldier is allowed in war time,
he is convinced that even with two to
three and . half ounces the patient
need not eat more than three-fifths of
tfhe meat which is requisite under Mr.
Banting's system. His dietary, it may
he remembered, is calculated for the
meridian of Hanover, and
hence three meals-breafast,
dinner, and supper-are al
lowed. These answer fairly to our
break asst, lunch and late dinner. On
no condition must there be an ''after-
noon tea" or other "snacks between
meals" Alcoholic drinks are permit
ted to the extent of two or three glasses
of light wine at dlnners but beer is
barred, unless, indeed. 1.-The permitted
carbohydrates be correspondingly re-
stricted." though even then the ale ac-
cepted as an equivalent must be ex-
tremely moderate in amount. The diet
of o cured patient was something like
the following: For breakfast, large
cup of black tea, without milk or sugar,
and two ounces of bread with plenty of
butter, ut 7:30 in Winter, or at or $50
in Summer. For dinner. between two
and three o'clock, soup, 'toiten with
marrow" four to six ounces of roast or
boiled meat, vegetables in moderation,
put no potatoes, and almost no sac
cha.ine turnips- After dinner little
fresh fruit, or salad, or stewed fruit,
without sugar, with two or three glasses
of ligat wine, followed by large cup
of black tea, without milk or sugar.
Supper of black tea, fat roast meat, or
eggs, or some ham with fat bologna
s,ausage, smoked or fresh fish, and lit
fle bread well, buttered, with cheese and
fresh fruit, formed the concluding meal
at the hour of seven or eight.-London
Standard.
Pastures.