The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-19
HOW TO REDUCE FAT.
Practical Suggestions Re-
garding the Proper
Course Of Diet
to Follow.
CORPULENCY NOT GENERALLY INHERITED
II Is Due Rather to Eating Things
Which Conduce TO. Obesity
Household Hints.

A strict diet for %corpulent people can
be formulated for those who would re-
duce their excessive obesity ana keep it
down to d normal condition. Despite
the fact that it is generally believed that
fat people Inherit their tendency 10 be-
come corpulent, il is now the general
opinion that obesity comes more from the
peculiar diet which such people almost
unconsciously adopt. In a hundred or
two of test cases. says tue Albany Press
and KRfckerboclicr. it was found that
excessively fat people invariably liked
the very articles OF food which make fat,
While the lean patients were very fend of
lean producing material. This Is about
the beginning and end of inherited ten
dency to corpulency. The child gets a
good, strong, fat constitution probably
from the mother or father at birth, and
then this is fed regularly with foods that
increase it. Exercise, tight lacing and
all the patent uostrums fail to bring that
fat down, and finally it is given up as a
failure. Que more victim then adds his
testimony to the Inherited fat theory.
CHANGING ONES DIET.
The real mode of life and diet should be
changed If the fat would be re iuced. Ii
necessary procure a pair or scales and
weigh the different foods that are taken
into the system. This is, after all, the
surest way TO get at the root of the mat
ter. Reduce the diet then to about four
ounces of starch or material per
day, one and a half ounces of fat taken
chiefly in the form of butter, aud about six
or seven ounces of albuminous food such
as lean meat or fish. This is the mini
mum that should be resorted to, and the
patient can take more Of each at first, ana
reduce the diet gradually to this point.
The proportion OF the different food COM
pounds. however, with the exception of
figs, dates, grapes and NUS, should also
be eaten daily, and one-third of a pound
OF some of the following vegetables:
Asparagus, turnipS. cncumbers, parsley,
water cress. celery, kale or cabbage.
Fluids have u fattening tendency, and
they must be taken in small quantities.
WHAT TO DRINK.
The drinking should be confined TO tea,
coffee or water. and never should they he
taken at meal time, nor within Que hour
of Il meal. This is peremptory, for food
will produce fat much quicker and surer
when well watered bT some good bever-
age. Exercise, OF course, in the opeu air
is quite essential, and the more OF this
can be taken the better it will be tor the
patent. The diet, b owever. is the first
requisite, and if this cannot be taken at
once it should be at opted gradually. Al
though the person may feel hat he is not
getting enough to eat, it will only be due
to his peculiar condition, for a daily al
lowauce such as the above will support
any man ia his daily work.
Where the obesity is very eXces sfve it
will be quite necessary at first to reduce
the general disposition of the system to
deposit fat. The Carls bad Spradel salt
in rather large doses will probably ac-
complish this quicker than almost any
thing else. This not only reduces the
fat, but has a tendency to prevent the
formation of any more tat tissue. This is
a medicine that can be taken by the pa
tient, and with Il little common sense he
can treat himself at home. The sprudel
salt is now prepared SO that it is not nee
essary TO travel way to Carlsbad to OBJ
tain it, and those who resort to those
springs 10 cure corpulency obtain no bet
ter relief than the man who stays at
home and obeys the strict letter of the
law.
A GERMAN PRESCRIPTION.
Attbe German springs physicians make
the patients adopt a rigid diet while they
are taxing the salt, and consequently they
have their obesity reduced within a few
months. The salt should be taken in
doses of fifteen or twenty grammes daily
after it has been dissolved in Iukewarm
water. Ii taken before meals it will have
better results, and reduce the craving for
hearty food. This system very seldom
fails. All the patients from Carlsbad
come back relieved and greatly reduced
in weight. Butt If there should be au ex-
ception, fifteen grain doses of iodide of
pc, assium or sodium in water should be
taken twice daily on an empty stomach
for three or four weeks. This takes the
place Of the SDrudel salt.
The most excessive corpulence should
be cured by such q rigid treatment. 1t
goes at the root of the matter and pre-
rents the system from depositing fat ex-
cessively, and in this way the best results
are obtained. A permanent sure is eff
fected. The so-called sweating and other
artificial cures nay reduce the fat for q
Time. but the cause has not been cached,
ana consequently a return of the obesity
II a be expected.
DIR. Schulz, a German physician. has
just demonstrated to the profession by a
series of experiments the value OF the
sulphur bath in certain Eaalarial and
an8mic cases. Iron has been one of the
best tonics for such people, but in excess
sive cases the system seems TO refuse to
take the iron aud absorb it properly into
the blood.
Where iron proves inefficient the gen
eral condition is greatly improved by the
sulphur bath. At sulphur springs the
best results are Obtained, but sulphur
baths can be prepared az home SO that
enough of the sulphur can be absorbed.
Alter the sulphur treatment has been al.
ministered for some time the iron treat
menC should begin, and the system will
more readily absorb the latter. Extreme
cases of malarial poisoning have been
cured only through sulphur and iron