Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-28
FAT MAN WINS
 ON WAFER DIET
Rowan of Los Angeles Re- tuceS Waist from 52 Inches to 30
 Inches
.NO FOOD FOR MANY WEEKS
tOtheman Stevens in Los Angeles
 E0aminer.)

The original blown ip the waist line anthfat kid is Mir. Paul Rowan of this city.
 MT. Rowan up to October 31 Of last year carried a seveteen-inch collar on his neck and ifty-two iucn waist band on his trousers.
 Today his neck has ample room in fifteen collar and his trousers have been cut down to a thirty-inch waist more than thathe wears a shoe size smaller than he ever wore before since he grew up.
 Still his hat size remains the same. which is considerable modesty on the part of a man of scientific impulses. who at twenty-eight years of age found he had a width of Garguautuan tendencies.
 Whereupon he began to fast and his record since October 31 is 145 days on diet of water.
 He began with a sixtyday fast: this was followed in February with twenry days which he scofrs at as puerile
 We win not include that" he said yesterday in telling me the story that was no fast; it was simply an appetizer"
 From March 90 he ate not for thir- ty days, and from May 9 he dis not swallow anything but water for thir- ty-five days.
 Doesn't Count 2oDay Fast. When he began he put the steel yards teetering at 225 pounds. He ran this down 10 154 pounds at his tirst stomach rest cure. That triTIe Of not eating for twenty days he did not think worth keeping any figures about. but his second real fast he started at 190 pounds and finished at l5O, and this last one, extending from May to June ', carries of 1S0 pounds at the beginnig. to 149 as he passed under the wire giving Herr Jos eph Reichl of the Alexandria an order for a prescription.
 After he began eating this last time he went up to 16S pounds and there he has remained. which sems to prove his theory.
 And this is his scientific explanat ion for his rigorous method which he de- clares is agreeable 10 follow and pro duces only beneficial results: T found myself al twenty-eight," he said, "a man with a stomach like a London alderman, and I was so heavy that got about with difficulty and had to prop my eyes open when at work. to keep from falling asleep. So l studied the subject Of -at making and could find little accord l among physicians as to cause and treatment. However. formed the | theory from my studies that fat IS a result of condition or the nlood, and | that if the assimiIative tendency rOuld be checked. and if could divert exces, | sive metabolism of the blood into a kindly catabolic trait. could avoid becoming plethoric.
 i 'ln popular term my idea was 10 | thin the blood. to train it not 70 make 1 fat. While my theory may not be ii,at y proved. I have arrived at such re suits as to give 1e implicit faith n L iIf I find that have not sIceecdI IinaIly. ! will enjoy another fast ID September
 Attends Dinners. ooesn't- Eat.
 Tt is only in the first fev- days that I felt any disareeable symp toms; I have slight headaches and lperhaps am a bit grouchy. but in five or six days ] lose my appetite and from then on feel like a Derby win
 ner. While ' am fasting play tennis hand bail. box and run and take a
 swim every morning
 'l have been living at the Virginia | Hotel on the American plan and it q:
 sometimes annoying to sit at the "a hie and drink four or five glasses o
 water and cup Of black coffee iron
 the business point or view. but tha' is all
 During au my lasts I have follow D ed my usual life. ' have gone to din lner parties. and after-theater supper, and dances and lived luxrriously or draBghts of polly water The only dif } Gculty ] have is with the ordinar,
 fool iOsher. It becomes wearisome af . ter few weeks to have the same ol, rotten jokes cast at me and see in consequent friends waste their none, 5 mailing elaborate bills Of fare to me
 No, l did not take a cocktail o beer or any stimulant. ! never do fast ing or feasting. l did smoke, as a Q ways do, not excessively, but comfort l. ably
 6 When leave Of fasting bagi ] l with a little beef extract. a spoonfu '- every balf hour the first day. the SC, D end day take 1t by the cupful. th
 third day l put raw egg in the cul D The fourth day poached eggs an e cream toast and then I % ahead raj lf idly to my regular meals. But I q s not eat meat or any food in whic d starch predOnlinates.
 Is Cured of Stomach Trouble.
 One thing that made me take a
 his famine plan was that ! was bi n coming a slave to bicarbonate (
 soda. I had ferocious attacks of ii
 digestion and soon found myself ca
 rying soda. baking soda. all the tim T. and taking a jolt Of if every hour ( i' so to obtain relief