The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-15
FEEDING FAT FOLKS
WITH SCIENTIFICALLY IMPROVED
FOODS.

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Enjoy All the Delights of the
Table with Impunity-Blatchle
Galley and other London Caterers
Devote Their Energies Exclusive
Iy to Preparing Foods for the Fat.
The Dry Wine Company of South
ern Europe Have Opened Posi-
biIities Undreamed of Heretofore
for the Obese or Diabetic Pa
tients.
New York, Dec. 13.-A restaurant and
a food shop that cater exclusively to
the dietary requirements of stout, dys-
peptic and diabetic men and women is
one of the luxuries of the modern me-
tropolis. over in London there is ho-
tel run exclusively for those who are
undergoing treatment at the hands of
the greatest obesity specialist in the
world. This specialist has gone back
to the theory and practice of diet and
diet only as a cure for govt, rheuma-
tism and kidney troubles, as we'll as
superfiuous adipose tissue. Under the
influence of the proper regime he says
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and yet tomorrow you fall off; fall off,
too, at the rate of four to six pounds
a week, and continue to loose weight
until the scales and the tape measure
register announce that the normal
point has been reached. Then you are
discharged as cured.
No More Starvation Diets
IL t.
TO see your obesity specialist and find
out what your diet is to be. He meas
itiFes, weighs and cross you,
looks down your throat sounds your
lungs, listens TO your heart, tests your
eyes and smiles at your confession that
your parents and grandparents were
all uncommonly fat folks.
Fat, he will sententiously assure
you, is nothing more nor less than food
out of place, that as a rule it is not
hereditary, that in nine cases out OF
ten it is complicated with a equity
tendency and that there is nothing
more injurious to fat degenerated
system than ove:-exercise or a starva-
ton diet. Finally you are dismissed
by him with an injunction to present
yourself for an Office visit once a week,
in order that you may be weighed and
made to confess any infringement of
the rules as laid down in dietary list
that he gives you. The list is long; to
a woman with robust appetite and a
sensitive palate it is delightfully."- full
and various, but, unless she has a home
and a cook of her own she can only
follow the routine of it by marketing
chiefly at a dietary shop or by hanging
up her hat in an obesity restaurant OF
hotel. Both the hotel and restaurant
will prove eminently cheerful and in
viting places of entertainment and
the shop huns with activity through
out the business hours.
The extent of the business done in
special foods is proved by packing
cases piled high and marked for ship
ment to Cape Town, Chicago, Mexico,
Hong Kong and wherever else the
blessed news of eating to reduce flesh
has penetrated. Up and down the
glass covered counters are exhibited
the foods that the fat may not fear
and these same articles are being
served to the restaurant patrons.
1t would fill the soul of DR.. Banting
With horror to see a man with waist
measure like a flour barrel and
woman endowed with chins enough for
three persons complacently order and
eat as many dainty dishes as would
figure in the menu of an ordinary we'll
selected dinner. Ten to one the man
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champagne and the woman will sip a
glass of fruity locking sherry. How
ever, not only is no harm done there
by, but from soup to wines every
mouthful has probably been taken
strictly within the limits of a careful
reduction diet. The dietary that is
now regarded as both efficacious and
scientific asks for little or no self-de-
NAL at the hands Of the patient.
Some Remarkable Substitutes.
While it is perfectly true that starch
and sweets are forbidden, alcohol is
ruled out and animal fats are all but
eliminated, for every one of these i'm
portant elements capital substitute Is
offered. For example, there are ten diff
ferent types of delicious biscuits COM
pounded for the stout, equity and dys-
peptic. They are soft, hard, dry, rich.
sweet or savory, as your taste may
demand, and they are made of almond
flour, bran or gluten, enriched with nut
oils, sweetend with saccharine and
prepared with pepsin and essence of
beef. These are made to take the place
of the French rolls and white bread
that is denied the fat and the dyspep-
tic. Where there is a diabetic tendency
pure gluten bread, as light and flaky as
Drowned merangue, is one of the sub
stitutes, beside the most delicious egg
and almond flour scenes that are serv-
ed fresh every hour at the obesity res
taurant. In the we'll known dietary
shops on oxford and Regent streets
London, are sold teas prepared for their
patrons. 1t is a carefully picked Cey-
Ion tea, chosen because it contains
more them and less tannin than Chi
nese and Indian teas and possesses
special digestive and stimulating quail
ties. In the restaurant every cup of
tea is separate infusion for each pa
iron and only a dash of lemon is al
lowed as flavoring.
Alongside the teas. saccharine in
every form as a fluid, powder and tab
loid Is displayed, and in the tea, coffee
cakes, and deserts absolutely takes the
place of sugar. That in a fluid state is
sold for use in cookery and close to the
saccharine section are the boxes of
meat Jellies, the exquisitely favored
out unsweetened fruit jellies and those
made from an iceland moss and from
odd products of the sea.
Near the jellies are the bottled fruits
scalded and put up in their Juice to be
served after stewing with saccharine.
For those whose craving for sweets is
uncomfortable, boxes of fruit paste
are sold along with saccharine sweet
ened and peptonized bonbons. Row
upon row OF jars contain perfected
soups, fish foods and beef essences.
Distilled waters and those that are
slightly effervescent are put I'D spe-
cially for the corpulent, VINO, under
the new and perfected dietary are al
lowed TO drink both before and at
their meals provided they drink the