The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-08
THE FASTING FAD
FOR GOOD LOOKS
Its Magic Lies In the Fact That
1t Puts the System In Order
and Thus Improves the Health
and Appearance. =
HE old doctrine of plain living
and high thinking is being
made the basis of the new

made the basis of the new
therapeutics. The newest |
school in medicine is the fasting
school.
The doctor of this class will tell you
when you come to see him that you
eat too much. He is right too. Most
women do eat more than they really
need, and they are thin and scrawny
and nervous because they do not eat
nourishing food or do not eat it cor
rectly. They think they are hungry
when their pampered stomachs merely
crave the stimulus of the highly sea-
soned foods to which they have ac-
customed it.
There are few ills that are not &C
centuated by a stomach out of order.
So the new school doctor begins by
getting the stomach cleared before he
administers medicines If the illness
is not a very startling one he will tell
you to fast until the next day or for
twenty-four hours. Sometimes he will
suggest copious drinks of hot water as
part of the fasting process.
One advantage of this system is that
in minor illnesses you can be your
own physician. If you have not an
appetite it will help you. If you are
too stout it will reduce your weight.
If you are too thin you will put flesh
on afterward, when the clogging of
your system has been overcome and
your digestive organs recover tone
after the rest, which is their greatest
need. If you wish to cure your indi-
gestion, your govt, your tendency to
colds, your general rundown condition,
follow up three days light diet with
course of common sense food regula-
ton.
Then when the cure is complete do
not go back to the old diet. Eat simple,
nourishing foods. Take a light break
fast-a slice of toast, an egg or fish or
bacon with one cup of tea. Follow it
with a still lighter luncheon-a plate
of soup with toast and fresh fruit.
The third and last meal Of the day
may include little fish, a small piece
of meat with vegetables and toast and
with a piece of cheese in place of
sweets or savories.
Every two or three weeks return to
/ the days starvation. If you have lost
your appetite you will very soon find
/ that a few weeks dieting on these
lines will restore an appreciation OF
flavor and healthy joy in food, which
is the very best indication that the
/ treatment has been a success You will
| increase your energy and your interest
I in life and be a much more cheerful
/ companion as result.
! The woman who suffers from over
stoutness and Indigestion, who never
4 has an appetite, sleeps badly and wax
/ ems with headache, and the equity
/ or rheumatic person who suffers from
/ irritability or nerves" may both profit
/ by scientific fasting. The people with
| colds in the head at periodic intervals,
/ whatever the season of the year, should
fast to break the colds.
4 Many women are sick and depressed,
martyrs to dyspepsia or semi-invalided
1 with govt, because their systems get
/ clogged with the products of imperfect
/ digestion from overtaxing the tissues
! that have to do with combustion of
/ food. They need not more food, tonics,
/ oyercoddling of any sort or descrip-
| ton, but a little judicious starvation
They need to go without food alto
| gether for twenty-four hours and then
! follow up with two or three days of
/ the lightest diet, say a tumberful OF
milk three times day.
| If the digestive apparatus were thus
| kept in tone women would scarcely
| find it necessary to resort to cosmetic
&, or the beauty doctor and business
( find hot
| ter working order.