Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-04

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DR.. Davies bases his formula for the re-
duction of fat upon the diet furnished pa
tients in Guys Hospital. The food actu-
ally supplied at the hospital consists of
the following daily allowance: Four
ounces of cooked meat, II ounces
of bread, 8 ounces of potatoes, l ounce
of butter, 4 ounce of sugar, J ounce
of tea and 81 ounces of rice pudding,
made of rice, sugar and milk There
is also a daily allowance of half
pint of porter and q ounces of milk. This
diet is sufficient for the wants of the sys-
tenn under a condition of freedom from
labor Applied to general cases, the pro-
portions of food have been adopted as fol-
lows by DIR. Davies:
Twelve ounces of meat.
Three ounces of butter or fat.
Four ounces of bread or dry toast.
Ten ounces Of vegetables.
One-fourth ounce of tea (sweetened with
saccaharin.)
Two or three ounces of milk, and, in
stead of porter, pint of claret or other
light wine daily.
A woman, on the average, should take
tenth part less food than man; and
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minister to the bodily functions, which are
then more active, as well as to supply ma
terials for increase. After 40 the diet, if
long life is to be enjoyed, should be spar
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To prevent accumulation of fat in those
of this predisposition the following system
of diet should be pursued:
Breakfast.-One large cup of tea or
coffee with little milk and one or two
saccharine tabloids manufactured by Lon
don chemists), with two or three ounces of
bread or dry toast thinly burtered OF, in
stead of butter, three or four ounces of any
light meat or fish.
Lunch or Dinner.-An ordinary dish of
chicken, oyster or vegetable soup; seven
or eight ounces of roast or boiled meat, or
| fish an ordinary amount of seasonable
and suitable vegetables, small plate of
n-farinaceous pudding and FIVE or six
ounces of any fruit, if cooked, sweetened
with saccharine, with six or eight ounces
of any light wine, such as claret.
| Evening Meal.-Tea OF coffee, as at
breakfast, or six to eight ounces of light
wine diluted or not dry toast or little
bread (gluten preferred) with boiled eggs,
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and, as nisht-cap, glass of whisky and
water with few gluten biscuits taken
Just before retiring to rest.
This diet, it is needless to say. may be
increased if the subject does large amount
of daily work, but in the same ratio Of
quality of food.
In the treatment of corpulency exercise
is of the greatest Importance. The muscle
of the heart is strengthened by enforced
exercise, and the waste of the system
burned off. DR.. Parker, well-known au.
thority on the amount of exercise desir.
able, says the average daily work of man
engaged in manual labor in the open air is
equivalent to lifting $50 to $50 tons one
foot high. This is moderate amount, 40C
tons being a heavy days work. The
amount of muscular work involved in this
may be easily known by remembering that
a walk of twenty miles on the level road is
equivalent to about 354 tons lifted one foot;
and that walk of ten miles is equivalent
to lifting 247 tons one foot high. Every
healthy man should take exercise repre-
sented by $50 tons raised one foot, which
is equal to walk on the level of eight
and half to nine miles. A certain amount
of this exercise is taken in performing
ones daily work, but apart from this out.
door exercise should be taken daily equi-
valent to a walk of FIVE or six miles.
Walking uphill is recommended, as il
strengthens the heart, also riding and row.
ing. Flannel Undertaking should be
worn.
| Beer and stout are unsuited to fat PEG.
pie. Sweet wines must be avoided, such
as port, sherry, champagne, Tokay, Ma
deria, etc. Always remembering that q
pint of light wine daily should not be
much exceeded. The corpulent person
may, with his soup, drink glass of sau-
terne; with his fish a glass of Rhine wine,
such as Erbach or Steinberg, with his
meat or game glass of Bergundy, and
with his cigar after, some weak whisky or
cognac and water, or tea and coffee, sweet
ened with tabloid of saccharine. Cocoa
must not be taken, as it contains oil and
starch. Lemonade, ginger ale and all
OF water, not more than is necessary to
quence thirst should be taken.
The doctor has arranged dietary for
each month of the twelve. Here is what
a corpulent person may tackle with i'm
punity, within the 32-ounce limit, of
course, during the month of December:
Meat-Beef, veal, mutton, doe, venison.
Poultry and Game = Hares, rabbits,
pheasants, grouse, cartridges, woodcocks,
snipes, fowls, pullets, chickens, turkeys,
widgeons, pea-fowls, larks, capons.
Fish-Sturgeon, turbot, soles, skate,
Goldfish, haddocks, smelts, dory, gurnet,
herrings, sprats, oysters, mu.sels, cookies,
Holsters, shell-fsh, perch, carp, ling, dace.
Vegetables Cabbage, broccoli, savoys,
Brussels sprouts, Scotch kale, sea kale,
spinach, endive, cardons, lettuces, skirret,
satisfy, scorzonera, serrel, turnips, Jerusa-
lem artichoke, celery, shallots, mushrooms,
parsley, horseradish.
Fruits-Apples, medlals, figs, filberts,
nuts, walnu.s, currants.
Especially in season in December-Had-
docks, dace, tench, csd, dory, ling, skate,
turbot, capon, pea-fowl.
DBUNkENSEss and the craving for liquor