Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-09-24
How to Reduce Your Weight
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Fat is much more harmful than the
average person thinks; it affects the
whole system in many and various
ways; it shortens your breathing;
overheats and impairs the circulation
of the blood, and it will most certainly
absorb your energy. 1t adds a useless
burden to your body as a whole, and
covers your muscles with coating OF
adipose tissue to such an extent they
are deprived of that normal action SO
necessary To their health.
Very few people seem to appreciate
the fact that obesity is a disea3e. A
fat person is never well in spite of the
fact he may think he is in prime con
ditiOn, when in a large proportion of
the cases the fat person is really in a
dangerous condition. There are very
many ills which grow out of a fatty
condition and all of them are more or
less serious.
You may not realize when this fatty
condition begins to appear, for YOU
will most likely think of the coming
of flesh as an indication of physical
development and that you are reach
ing bodily condition closely akin to
perfect health. The fact is the pres
ence Of this fat is an infallible indica-
ton that you are inclined that way
and the quicker you set about success
fully combating it the better it will be
for you.
Fat, as rule, first puts in appaer-
ance in the abdominal region, hips, etc,
The person thus afflicted begins to
feel gradual tightening of the waist
bands; they suddenly become aware
Of the fact they cannot wear clothes
the size they formerly wore, and as a
consequence bands are let out; that
does not suffice, for in an astonishingly
short time this fatty condition has
spread over the entire body. The
work of reducing should, therefore, be
commenced at the point where the
fat first began to accumulate, i. e., the
abdomen.
The eating of pastry and candy is
the most common cause of obesity, and
is injurious in many ways. The great
American dish pie is one of the
greatest fat producers known, AMI the
manner in which it is commonly made
and eaten is one of the greatest evils,
affecting the body in many ways.
Again, the excessive drinking of wat.
err tea or coffee with meals weakens
and SO dilutes the digestive dfuis that
their work is delayed for hours 1t al
so interferes with the proper mastica.
ton Of foods; people too often wash
their food down with either of the man,
cd fluids, usually water, which de-
feats entirely the object of nature in
providing saliva. The stomach has no
teeth and the saliva does no good in
the stomach unless 1t Is thoroughly
mixed with the food while in the
mouth. Nature has kindly given man.
kind proper amount of teeth with
which thoroughly to masticate all
foods, and the stomach should not be
expected to perform the functions or
the teeth, but should be allowed to do
its own special work.
The American people as rule eat
too much and too fast; they put into
their stomachs a great deal more tnan
can be properly assimilated. Many
persons eat their second meal of the
day before the first one is thoroughly
the second has passed out of the stom-
ach Many eat fourth meal during
their waking hours, and there arc
many who eat between meals.
AS general rule two meals a day
are all that nature can handle. If peo-
pie would eat more slowly and chew
their food more thoroughly there
would be less sickness of all kinds
and no obesity at all, providing, of
course, that a proper amount of exer.
else is taken.
You have no doubt heard people say
that they were proud of their large
abdomen, that 1t was sign of opu.
lence and all that went to make posi-
ton in the social world. 1t is really a
sign of ignorance, for which they will
some day suffer. often have men tell
me that their protruding abdomen had
cost Thorn a great deal OF money, and
they did not care to lose it; of cour %
those men would be bankrupt If they
did, but it would pay them to take al
vantage of that law of bankruptcy
which would relieve them of their use
less flesh and restore them to perfect