The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-10
Obesity Diets
By JAM: EDDINGToS.

There IS wrong and mischief In all
waste Of life a man should live so as
to keep himself at his best. and with
a true economy. To cat more food or
more costly food than IS nccdful is
worse for The individual than to drop
money into the sca. II IL waste OF
labor and A waste of life. The way to
wealth is TO diminish expenditure and
especially to hinder waste. What we
eat and drink beyond the requirements
of health II utter waste. and The
amount OF this waste. which can he
counted IN money, is very great-so
great that II affects the national pros
perity- Eating 70 live by l.. T
Nichols. NJ d, 1851.
person who has recently paid y
doctor $50 for die, prescription for
obesity gave this list TO a friend, who
has consulted Inc about 1t. The col
lection OF such prescriptions Is grow
Ing. This particular list contains less
than $50 words strung together under
the four headings OF breakfast. lunch
con. dinner. and avoid"
Such words as "a slice of roast
beef "fyankfur;er sausaSeS' Uhe
only sort allowed and probab bly, be-
cause q the patients predilcctions).
"a thin slice of toast without butter"
all pickles" warranted by All dieti-
tians not themselves TO make fat, but
TO be contributing force ncverthe-
l.ssp, etc, which arc not even arranged
in menus. are evidently nicely valuable
at more than 81 per word when In the
right mans voca hulary.
What is such list really worth? In
the hands OF woman who knows not
enough about food and eating and
physical behavior In the first place to
keep her from taking on gross fat, IT
Is not worth AS much as bread pills.
After seeing many reducing diets,
studying some real ones. and consult
.nr some scores OF books on tho sub
jet, one may reasonably conclude that
It Is not. half OF the time al least. what
fat people eat that makes them obese.
but II is their behavior in connection
with their eating. They wash their
food on as far Az they can by drink
Ing. stimulate appetite with many DIFF
ferent things, make combinations that
ferment and produce toxic fat. take no
exercise Ia hasten digestion by full
oXygcna alton of the blood
First, TO dilute the digestive juices
tenzymes). the hydrating agents which
, must reduce all food to liquor form.
something as an apple is reduced 10
cider. Is to weaken their power when
ii has already been weakened by age
and abuse.
Second. tho eating muscle in all its
segments is the most exercised In the
body. yet eaters expect II 10 have all
tho elasticity and vigor of youth, even
when II is packed tight round with
fat. though all the other muscles give
anything but ready responses. and even
give out when crowded Let q fat
person eat only one food at n meal and
all or ii the appetite dema nds. and he
Will add less to his frame in most cases
than by eating several, each with It's
stimulus. and have the less likelihood
of feeling hungry after eating. If he
wants more he has to wait just a little
to lose desire. Let the one food havA
as great bulk as possible. compared
with tho nutriment, and be something
not likely 10 ferment before cared for
by the weakened digestive juices.
I Absorption is constant along tho
''prima via" Plenty OF water between
meals VIII help TO make blood better.
when II used to sluice food along II can
do great harm. The condition 1t helps
10 produce yields an unhealthy de-
structive. clogging sort OF fat which
works insidiously and ceaselessly TO
stuff up the depurating organs and to
deprive them of their elbow room.
They then crowd and press on the more
vital ores above since this Is the only
direction in which thoy can move, until
breathing becomes difficult. the heart
is affected. and one day that sudden
thing, just as sudden as the breaking
of the alst strand OF a cable, the first
of which broke long before, happens.