The New York herald., 1922-05-21

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~ r. COPELAND finds himself in
ID pos, Of great ss-pon-lellI'y.
with duties calling to him
shrieking for him-from all quarters
Of the town at once. To be the
Health Officer of New York is to
realize in a moment more RESPONSE
bilities (for a conscientious and re-
sponsibility assuming mani than lies
IN poor humanity to carry without
safety valve. Hence, and therefore,
Ne may assume he has set up a
hobby. and the hobby has turned out
to be not only a safety valve for
himself but a light to tighten the
ignorant (and how many there are!)
and a guide to the general public.
which does not know much but will
often look through a milestone when
some intelligent person in authority
8AOU1 CtA lAAC AtOtC III H. LII. SORC-
land has pointed out the hole in the
milestone to a great number Of per-
sons who need just such simple di-
rection; he will probably have saved
many lives-let only the pessimist
say that some of them ought not to
be saved.
A. Health 0fEnn- 81 .stx n
Copeland is brought in contact with
many politicians. and many OF them
are fat. There Is something about a
political career, not to speak of po-
lticaI office. wlnIh tends to increase
the excess of adipose tissue. This
fact has undoubtedly been borne in
upon DR.. Copeland's mind, and in
casting about for a speciality (Which
is doctors name for hobby, since
many doctors are too honestly de-
voted to their intrinsically noble pro-
fession to seek an alternate oecupa-
ton outside it) he thought he might
as well tell some OF these fat poll
upon their period of being "a long
time dead" (as the late Timothy JUS
tinian Campbell once put it) by
few sensible and not too arduous
precautions. He may have men
toned his idea to some of them, and
they may have told their woman
kind. most of whom could no longer
preserve the silhouette OF slender
ness which marks the caste of lovely
and fashionable womanhood now
adays. However it happened. DIR.
Copeland suddenly found himself the
preceptor. friend and guardian angel
OF a class of stout ladies'" who
wished to lose flesh and thereby gain
their hearts desire. He proceeded
to put them through a course of
sprouts which opened their eyes
wider, probably. than they had ever
been before in their lives to the faSt
that they could be more comfortable.
cosnely and generally presentable il
they would only take little trouble
and stick to their job long enough to
LET up a habit with intelligence and
understanding.
TIE first thing DR.. Copeland dis
covered was the abyssmai ignorance
as to food. fatness and the general
cause and effect of daily feeding on
the human corpus. which possessed
80 per cent. of the public, as repre-
sented. fairly enough, by the people
who came to him for counsel and
help. He therefore began by author
izing the elementary facts regarding
foods. So he was off in a minute on
his primary instruction in proteids.
fats and carbohydrates. He pointed
out that by selecting food with intel
ligence it was possible for each in
dividual to keep his or her weight
where IL was desired He says:
1t requires character to resist
appeals Of a pampered appetite.
but with little difficulty one can
! find ways to lessen the appetite's
demands for fat producing food.
but one need not go hungry.
The surest way is to keep ever in
sight the Importance of losing
overweight for the sake of good
health and long life.
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