The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-04
HOW TO GET THIN.
Principles of the Celebrated Banting System
as Laid Down bV Him.

Principles of the Celebrated Banting System
as Laid Down bv Him.
Notwithstanding the long list included
among the respiratory elements Of food thai
must necessarily be excluded in any sys-
tematic dieting for the reduction of fat,
there yet remain many food products that
are not prohibited. Lean meats, sweet
breads, fish excepting right kinds, such as
salmon and eelsl, clear soups, poultry,
game, eggs, cheese, green vegetables, toast,
gluten bread, fresh fruit vegetables and
pickles are allowable articles of diet. BY
strict adherence to a diet selected mainly
from the above list. Mr.. Banting, the
originator of the system bearing his name Q,
reduced himself greatly in weight. His
height was five feet FIVE inches and his
weight 2O2 pounds. He began dieting under
the direction of a London physician IN
August, 1868, and by September, 1864, lit
tie more than year, he had reduced his
weight to l56 pounds and his girth by 1915
inches.
The reduction was permanent, and was
followed by great Improvement in health
Mr.. Bantipg confined himself to the follow
ing dietary:
Breakfast-Four or five ounces Of beef,
mutton, kidneys, boiled fish, bacon or cold
meat of any kind Except pork, a large cup
of tea without milk or sugar and one ounce
( of dry toast.
Diuner-Five or six ounces Of any fish
! Except salmon or eels), any meat (eXceps
/ pork, any vegetables Except potatoes or
rice), one ounce Of dry toast, fruit out Of
any pudding, any kind of poultry or game,
and two or three glasses Of good claret,
sherry or Madeira champagne, port or
beer forbidden).
Tea-TWo or three ounces Of fresh fruit,
or a rusk or two, and cup of tea, withoub
milk or sugar. The tea may be very much
enjoyed when taken in the Russian fashion
l. e., with thick slice of lemon floating On
the top instead of milk.
Supper-Three or four ounces of meat OF
fish, similar to dinner, with glass Of
claret.
1t is hardly necessary to say that the
quantities OF the different articles specified
must be left to the natural appetite, soma
requiring more, perhaps, others less.
In addition to diet, exercise is Of the ut
most Importance. Within the limits OF
ones capacity, all forms of exercise, such
as riding, walking, rowing, and gymnastics.
are of benefit by directly inducing an in =
creased oxidation of tissue improving the
the quality of ths blood and its oxygen
carving power. The administration Of
J drugs for the reduction of fat is in the
: main exceedingly unsatisfactory.
Corpulenee is, however, sometimes asso-
ciated with and directly dependent upon sn
impoverished condition of the blood known
; as anemia, and in these cases the admin
istration of iron in some form Of the great
D est advantage-as the condition of the
: blood improves the fat diminishes.
Those medicines, however, that In them
selves tend to reduces flesh are capable also
: of doing the greatest harm. The iodides
of cazx and th0aa nnQck mad
4 that are advertised so extensively as fat
I redueers depend for their value upon the
{ Iodine they contain. 1t would be dificuli
r to estimate the damage done TO health 90
{ casioned by their indiscriminate use.-
! Frank Leslie's Weekly.