The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-05-30
Fat as Q Cure Of Obesity.

rat as Uure OF UDeslty.
To many people oorpulence is 80 SER
ious an inconvenience that the appear
ance of DIR. Ebstein's much talked of
treatise on the cause and cure of obe-
sity may revive hopes which the prac-
tical failure of other systems had al.
most quencbed. He knows he is right
and he is not afraid to say 80. Mr..
Banting's dietary, though irksome, was
not ascetic, but to the many patients it
was 80 weakening that for one who
has been relieved by it dozen have
experienced actual injury. 1t is easy
to become thin by not taking sufficient
food to supply the waste which is con-
tinually going on, though in this case
the cure is worse than the disease. Pro.
fessor Ebstein scorns all such treat
ment He will have nothing in the
shape of starvation remedies, because
while we are starving we sacrifice albu-
men as well as fat, and the loss of fat
during famine causes anaemia, which
demands compensation in the shape of
more plentiful diet, in itself likely to
lead to still greater accumulation of
the verv substance of which it is desir-
ed to get rid. Equally useless aud in
adequate 10 his opinion are the various
drink cures, be they hot or cold. Pro-
fessor Ebstein agrees with Mr.. Bant-
ing in advocating regimen alone as
the only safe cure for an inconveni-
ence which most frequently results
from too much food. But he adopts
dietary widely different.
The crucial difference is on the
question of eating fat. Fat is the sheet
anchor of DR.. Ebstein. SO far from
making one fatter, it is able, by ''com-
bining with the albumnous materials
and the carbo hydrates," each in due
proportion, to operate effectively against
obesity, the removal of which re-
solves itself rather into question of
permanent change of habits based on
physiological principles than of mere
cure in the ordinary acceptation of the
term. No one need expect to become
thin in few weeks, nor will a perma
nent Improvement in figure be guaran-
teed if the regimen is not adhered to
for the remainder of the patients life.
Inanition must be avoided, aud the fat
taken to satisfy the cravings of appe-
tite must be of unexceptionable equal
lty. No dyspeptic, we are assured,
need fear fat so long as he does not
take too much, and, indeed, so admira-
BILE is that substance, long dreaded by
delicate, that, by checking nitrogenous
waste, it appeases thirst as we'll as
hunger, fact, in part at least, known
even by Hippocrates. Mr.. Banting
permitted any fish, except salmon but
DIR. Banting encouraged his patients to
enjoy, Sin moderation, of COURSE" not
only this dish, but pave de fole gras
and similar delicacies, which go far to
reconcile the corpulent gourmet to the
exclusion of carbohydrates. "Carbo.
hydrates,' are, indeed his sole detesta-
ton. Sugar is tabooed, as we'll az
sweets of all kinds, and potatoes in ev-
cry form he forbids Internationally.
Three to three and a half ounces of
bread per day are permitted, aud of
vegetables, asparagus, spinach, cab
bage and the various legumes rich in
albumen are allowed. OF meats he ex-
cudes none, and il is needless to add
that so far from wishing the fat people
to avoid the fat in the flesh, he begs
them to pick out all that they can get
81 permit writes this liberal minded
opponent of the starving DOCTOR" ba-
con fat, fat roast pork and mutton,
kidney fat, and when no other fat is at
hand l recommend marrow to be add
ed to the soups. l allow the sauces to
be made juicy, as did Hippocrates,
only, for his sesam oil l substitute but
ter Fat is his stronghold. On this
he depends, not as a mendicament, but
as food it has, in his opinion, been
a much maligned article of diet, and
though he by no means recommends
the men of full body to consume a
third of what the German soldier is al.
lowed in war time, he is convinced that
even with two to three and hall
ounces the patient need not eat more
than three-fifths of .he meat which il
required under Mr.. Banting's system
On no condition must there be an "af
ternoon tea" or other such ''snacks be
tween meals" Alcoholic drinks are
permitted to the extent of two or thre,
glasses of light wine at dinner, bu,
beer is barred, unless, indeed, ''the per
mitted carbohydrates be correspond
ingly restricted" though even then tn
ale accepted as an equivalent must be al
extremely moderate amount. The die
OF cured patient was something lik
the following For breakfast, q larg
cup of black tea, without milk or sug
ar, and two ounces of bread, with plen
ty of butter at 7.30 in winter or at
or $50 in summer. For dinner, be
tween 2 and o'clock, soup, ''oftel
with marrow" four to six and hal
ounces of roast or boiled meat, vegeta
+ bles in moderation, but no potatoes an,
almost no saccharine turnips. Afte
Y dinner little fresh fruit, or a salad, o
Y stewed fruit, without sugar, with tw
: or three glasses of light wine, followe,
by large cup of black tea, withou
milk or sugar. Supper of black tes
fat roast meat, or eggs, or some har
: with fat bologna sausage, smoked 4
s fresh fish, and little bread well bu
r tered, with cheese and fresh fruit, fo
u med the concluding meat at the hou
q of Tor S.-London Standard.
'r The Poor Mans COUNTRY