Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-09

ire Suuueniy drops ueaO through abrupt CeS-
sation Of the hearts action it is almost always
observable that the victim is of plethoric habit.
DISEASES TO BE DREADED.
Apoplexy is another disease to which the
corpulent are peculiarly liable; should such
show an inclination to undue somnolency. no
time should be lost in consulting a physician,
as in all human probability they have passed
beyond the point when dietetic measures alone
will insure them from danger. The liver, in
especial, shows great tendency to disease pro-
duced by too much fat, hence the so-called
fatty liver"
Diabetes is disease Of the lobules Of the
liver. 1t is this portion of the liver which
makes animal sugar. When we feed too eX-
ciuslvely upon foods which produce sugar, this
part OF the liver becomes overactive and forms
more sugar than the system requires and thus
lncltes the kidneys to work excessively to carry
it off. This overexcitation of the liver and
kidneys induces the diabetic condition, the
seriousness of which requires no insistence to
the intelligent reader.
But OF all diseases none are more dreaded by
humanity than "Bright's disease" which is
nothing more nor less than fatty disease of the
Kidneys, and is caused by long continued over
indulgence in vegetable saccharine and starchy
foods which produce fat Dropsy is not in it.
self n disease but only a symptom of disease in
vital parts. Dropsy in the extremities indicates
disease of the heart or kidneys, or both. Dropsy
In the abdominal cavity indicates disease in the
portal glands. There are numerous other lesser
maladles caused directly by obesity, such as
govt, rheumatism and anamia-that is. NOR
bid diminution OF the blood supply in the body
That is Websters definition Of anemia-more
strictly medically speaking it is a change in the
quality-an Impeachment Of the blood
caused by bad Authorization.
NO WISH TO ALARM.
do not desire to alarm the obese reader. but
only to awaken him or her from that easy state
of indifference to corpulence which is the out
come Of the fattering JUNCTION each is liable to
lay to his soul. my fat is healthy fat" Do
not thus deceive yourself. No fat is healthy if
allowed to exceed a certain point
Nothing is more frequently heard among the
victims Of corpulence than the remark: s'Ny
stoutness is inherited, and cannot hope to es-
cape my fate. My parents suffered as do,
bulk, as l doubtless shall however 1 NAV
struggle against it, But that is nonsense.
Obesity ami a tendency to obesity are two very
different things. The latter may be inherited.
but the former cannot be. The predisposition
to the family bane comes in some degree. from
the transmission of weakened organs and i'm
paired vital forces to the offspring of the fat,
and therefore it may be admitted that thus far
a tendency is inherited.
Obesity is more frequently the product of
habit than OF heredity. Its great cause is the
eating OF food that ferments in the stomach
OF course there are certain articles of food
hydrocarbons, that are more readily converted
into adipose tissue than others are; but in a
general way, every ounce Of vegetable food in
excess of SO much as can readily be digested
| and assimiated has evil consequences in the
direction Of corpulence. 1t must be remen-
bered that ours is meat-eating race The
survival of the fittest-or the toughest under
adverse conditions-in many generations has
produced special adaptation for an exclu-
sively vegetable diet in some peoples, notably
the IHindoos Chinese and Japanese. Their
pyforic valves are permanently paralyzed and
the rice they put In their helpless but indif-
ferent and useless stomachs il promptly passed
along to the duodenum and small intestines
| where it is digested and its nutritive elements
| are properly assmilated. But we are not built
| In that way. Our pyloric valves work.
MEAT AND VEGETABLES.
The stomach is a meat-eating organ, but when
fitted with pylorus upon which it can place
any reliance, endeavors honestly to do its duty
upon whatever is supplied to it. BY the time
however, it has dealt with the scattered frap-
ments of meat in the ordinary American meal,
the mass OF vegetable matter forced upon it
has begun to ferment. Volumes of carbouic
| acid gas rise from the acid mass in which the
process Of fermentation has been started by
germs of vinegary and alcoholic yeasts already
| established on the coats of the stomach, and.
| stimulated by the natural animal heat, often
aided by deluges Of hot liquids. The sensa-
tions of oppression in the stomach, pressure
| upon the heart. suffocation and sour stomach
| are the natural and quickly experienced conse-
| quences. The gas evolved has a directly toxic
effect, in addition to its injurious pressure, and
| tends to the speedy impairment Of the func-
tons of stomach, lungs and heart. Nature, as
a measure of prudent conservation, builds
around weakened organs sustaining and pro-
tecting walls of fat that there you have fairly
started the growth of corpulence.
But the evil has only commenced. When the
| Arid Oaa ovnlyn0 hean Of vaUafahlo Z.
eventually allowed to escape through the
| pylorus it enters upon tract where 1t is now.
owing to its condition, a potent factor for evil
instead Of healthful alimentation. The assm-
| of the gases involved, carry into the blood in
| stead OF healthful, nutritive elements, the
| yeast germs permeating the mass and present
| ing themselves at every point. The life cur
rent is vitiated fbrinous clots impede the cir
culation and all the tissues suffer through lack
| Of proper nourishment That the most serious
| constitutional conditions naturally follow in
this chain Of causes and effects will be readily
comprehended, but the fact need not be dweit
upon here. as this is not general treatise upon
| inquiry into whence comes that particular
| malady familiarly known a. fat.
THE WEAKENED HEART
One Of natures processes has already been
reverted to In the accumulation Of adipose
tissue about the weakened heart Another
! with the same conservative purpose 10 the in
| filtration Of fat into the muscular tissues to
| take the place of i'll nurtured and wasted dbers,
the depraved condition Of which is consequent
upon the deterioration Of the blood. When
| both are set going o retroactive force IL ex-
| erted. These conditions in themselves tend to
aggravated continuance Of the causes in which
they had their rise. and by their further mus
cular energy, depressing vital forces and en-
feebling the nervous system, disinclins the
victim FOR such efforts a. might ct least retard,
If not correct, his progressive increase Of fat.
Each baleful effect In its turn becomes malefc
cause in the cyclic evolution Of man into thu
monster-phyaically only, win. Of course, be
| understood.
How shall any one know whom he has entered
| upon that perilous progression toward plethora
How shall he be satisfed that he il not cozen-
| ing himself with . dangerous delusion when he
fsncies: II am still ali right I have no need
to reduce myself. Ny fat d healthy fatr'
Healthy fail II the wise men who make m
the mortality tables for the life insurance COM
paniss and, from the wealth Of their expert
ence, prescribe what are safe end what are nm
safe risks, know anything about what they are
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