Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-03-02
9yashin9ton Standard
WHAT PEOPLE SHOULD AVOID.
tioW to Avoid Obesity by Simply Choosing
Your Diet
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There is nothing that Is go interest
ing to those who think themselves
overburdened with flesh rs to hear, or
read, how they can become thin.
knowing this, there has been collected
from the best medical authorities the
following array OF antifat facts:
Folks oppressed with heavily laden
tissue coverings, that manifest unwcl-
come presence in huge development OF
unwieldy rolls and tremendous ridges
of soft habbiness and unhealthy
growth, ought OF surety possess
themselves of one or two Of the where
fors why they must not eat this food
or touch that other, but must instead
eat something quite different in ma
turc.
The fat ones must not partake OF
sugar, because sugar is formed OF car
bon only, in union with the two gases
that form water These gases are oxy-
gen and hydrogen, and they are joined
with the carbon in the proportions
exactly that 60 to form water, that is,
is one part of oxygen to every two OF
hydrogen. AS soon as the sugar
particles are eaten the gases fly off in
the form OF watery vapors, which OK
ude through the pores of the skin in
part, but the carbon is stored up in
the already overladen tissues of the
body in the form OF fat.
For fat, whether vegetable or ami
NAL, is only carbon united to the gas
hydrogen. The sugar fat person
takes, therefore, has the same effect
when broken up into its elemental
parts by Chemist Nature as would be
produced by the swallowing of pellets
OF pure fat.
So all food that contains fat or
sugar the carbonaceous meats of the
analysing body must be rigidly for
saken.
Lean meat, whether mutton, lamb,
venison or beef, may be eaten, as these
contain fibrin-the flesh-maker, not
the fat-maker, as the gas nitrogen is
the active principle here-any game
or fowl also may be eaten, and so
firm, muscular tissue, able to resist
the encroaching fats, will be manu-
featured by the busily working body.
All white-fleshed fish, such as the
cd or whiting may be eaten, but on
no account may oily fish, such as
salmon, herrings, mackerels be used
as diet aiders, because these contain
all the abundant fishy oil of their
constitutions scattered in globules
about their flesh, whereas the white
feshed and drier sort store up their
oil in their livers mainly, as, for we'll
recognized instance, does the cod.
Green vegetables, such AS the cab
bage, Brussels sprouts, vegetable mar
row, caulifower, etc, may be eaten
largely, and the body will benefit by
their many healthful salts; but those
which contain sugar, such as the beet
root, parsnip, turnip, carrot and their
kind, may not be taken for reasons
rendered.
Neither may pototoes be taken by
the fat folk at all. The reason is that
they are full of starch, and starch is
only sugar in disguise, as gum is also.
For, strange as it appears, it is never.
theless true that starch is composed of
carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, but in a
different arrangement of molecule
form from that of sugar, though in
very nearly the same proportions.
When starch in the form of potato or
bred or rice or pulse is taken into the
mouth to be masticated, the saliva ex-
erts q peculiar Transforming power
over it, so that the starch is changed
to sugar, since the tissues are not CO.
pahle Of absorbing starch, whereas they
can absorb sugar when the two gases
are liberated in water from the carbon.
Likewise must be avoided the juicy
and most healthful onion by all the
fat because of the oily principle con-
tanned in it.
Because of the starch present in
bread, no crumb, even of a dry loaf
ought to be eaten; but only the crust,
because, in the crust, the starch has
already partly undergone sugar
change, and this will be completed in
the mouth. The sweet taste of bread
crust and of toasted bread is due to
this, and in this case the sugar may be
taken because it is of the grape-sugar
variety that has only half the carbon
of the cane variety. Beetroot and the
sugary vegetables have the cane kind
only in fruit and metamorphosed
starch is found the glucose or grape
variety.
So, because the carbon in grape.
sugar is scant and the acids in fruit
many and beneficial, much fruit may
be taken, and the grateful salts therein
will combine with much of the excess
of carbon. either neutralizinp il O,
changing its character altogether, sc
operating for the body's welfare.
But acids taken wholesale, as vine
gar in copious draughts, which sacri
fees the stomach.lining with the
burning OF acetic acid, or lemons eater
recklessly for the sake of the SOUL
juice brimful of citric acid and potash