Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-24
OBESITY.
PRACTICAL HINTS on REDUCING
FLESH.
Lotions. Herbs, Acids, Drugs and
Nostrums Injurious-Not Neces-
sary to Avoid Everything One
Likes-Bread Fattening.

run down and even walked down, but to
resort to drugs is to lay up a grudge that
nature will unquestionably avenge. With
ont the slightest pretenses as a specialist
in obesity, Mr.. Robert Bonner is one of
the best authorities in the country on the
subject of corpulency. Did he care to
hang out sign and receive only office
patients he could in ten years realize the
equivalent of the fortune it has taken the
very best years OF his life to accumulate.
He says
"Superfuous fat is either disease or
a luxury. If the former the cause must
be ascertained; if the latter, then all that
is required is a suspension or diminution
of delicacies, early hours, less sleep and
more work than usual.
"Workers are never fat, for activity is
attended by loss of tissue. When
Maud S gets vulgarly fat I have her work
it down. Not all at once, for that would
derange her system, but according to a
regular system of exercise that increases
with her strength without in the least
exhausting it. Instead of speeding her
all round the track the training begins
with quarter. The ext day half the
circuit is made; the following three
quarters, and the fourth the round at the
same pace. The regular work is limited
to brisk walk. This system is kept up
with a gradual increase until she is in
condition.
"Now, this sort of methodical train
ing would reduce human flesh, restore a
woman's lines of beauty, and not only re-
lieve man of his burdensome tissue, but
perfect his health and develop his
strength"
Mr.. Bonner advocates regular exercise.
The fat woman must get up and move
about, not eight hours the first day, but
half an hom. She must work, row,
walk, sweep, swing clubs, swim, jump
or play at some field sport. Whatever
the exercise, it must be repeated and
heightened Systematically, until she can
walk from the Battery to the Park or
from Union Square to the Harlem
without fatigue. This is the sort of
treatment that is certain to reduce the
flesh, and at the same time benefit the
general health.
While it is not necessary to starye,
over-indulgence is detrimental, and a
long list of edibles is forbidden the
would-be thoroughbred. All farinaceous
foods must be given up, and such cher
ished favorites as sweet peas, sweet and /
Irish potatoes, beans, green corn, breads,
rice, tapioca, butter, fats, oils, milk,
sweets, pastries, malt drinks and fruity |
wines hoycotted The diet limited to
eggs, soups, lean meats, fish and she'll
foods, juicy fruits and lettuce, tomatoes,
celery, crosses, spinach and onions must
be sparingly INDUCED in; rare beef,
with one fruit and one vegetable, and
clear soup sufficing for dinner.
Another essential is an abundance Of
LIQUIDS, which are less fattening than
solid foods. If an ample dinner is eaten
the other meal should be limited to fruits,
a cup Of chocolate, clear soup or warm
water, favored with lime or lemon
juice.
Sections of tomato, apple, orange or
melon served in place of bread will in
short time overcome all desire for the
staff of life, which is the most fattening
article in the modern diet.
1t is essential that the appetite be re-
stricted and the meals limited to two.
Breakfast at II A. NJ. and dinner at 6 P.
NJ, unless engaged in active labor. This
will be a difficult matter for time, but
it means an average reduction of ten
pounds a month. For the person of Sc
dentary habits two meals are ample. Be.
fore the first a short walk should be taken
in the open air, and between the two
must come the hard work of three or five
hours taken in wooden outfit and with
sufficient speed to produce perspiration.
There will be days when it will not be
convenient to get out of doors, and for
this period there is no better substitute
than a ''pack," which, however, must be
taken under proper intelligence. The
consists Of two days fast,
during which sufficient water may be
taken to quench the thirst, but no solid
food of any sort. At the end of the fast
the "banter" is rolled in a sheet wrung
cut of hot water and covered up in bed
with six or seven blankets and comfort
nbles. A cold rag placed on the head
will cool the brain, and it must be the
duty of the attendant to change the cloth
as often as it may seem necessary to re-
duce the temperature Of the blood on its
way to the brain. Here the hesh-laden
patient is kept for an hour, If possible,
at every pore, with the sensa-
ton of collapse in every organ. Who
ever unpacks must be able to give the
victim a massage treatment or apply suf-
fcient friction to stimulate the body into
healthy action. To prevent possible cold
an application OF alcohol to the skin is
essential in cold weather. AS the wo-
man will be too weak to dress for few
hours, nourishment must be taken while
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