New Ulm review., 1922-08-23
Home Health Club
DR.. David H. Reeder, LaPorte, Ind.


else to do just now. When she came
up the stairs she was painting and
putting quite vigorously and she want
ed ne to tell her why. ''.1 't92&9N
'When you were normal weight,
about 12O, did you ever try to convey
seventy pounds of flour or sugar or a
chunk of boy up such long stairs?'
"Why no, l could not possibly carry
seventy pounds across the room, let
alone up the stairs"
"Well, that is just what you are
doing every day, carrying around
seventy pounds of disease matter in
the form of fat and it gives you no
strength whatever, but instead pre-
vents your muscles from doing their
work with the greatest ease"
But what makes me so fat, Doctor,
/ don't eat nearly so much as my
husband and he is as thin as rail?"
What did you eat for your break
fast?"
"a small dish of breakfast food, two
pieces of toast and cup of coffee.
My husband ate couple of eggs, two
pieces of toast, the breakfast food, a
cup Of coffee and half canta!oup.
"Your husband secrets enormous
quantities of saliva. 1 happen to
know that he drinks his coffee after he
has finished eating. He digests his
starches perfectly. He doesn't eat
candy and uses but little sugar. His
muscles are as hard as iron and his
elimination is good. He always eats
something raw at each meal so he is
quite likely to keep we'll for many
years.
"You, on the contrary do not secret
much saliva, which is an alkaline Sc
cretion and you make it worse by
drinking your coffee and several glasses
of water in order to wash down your
food. You do not chew your food
properly and you cannot digest starch.
Nearly everything you eat is starch,
sugar and fat. You eat cream and
sugar in your coffee. Lots of butter on
your bread and you eat lots o candy,
Jams, jcllies, cakes, pies and you are
fond Of fat meats, soups and gravies.
"You are constipated and on ac-
count of the sweets and much starch
foods without the natural mineral
salts, your teeth are decayed and there
is absorption from them so on the
whole you are mass of diseased fat. -
well, what can do doctor? l
simply can't live without my good
home baked bread. take the premium
every year at the fair for the finest
and whitest looking loaf and the taste
<is so good.'
Il thjrk you can not only live with
out your white bread but you will
enioy life much more. Just try lay
ing off that Is pounds Of white starch
or flour that you have been carrying
around in the form of fat and see how
much more abundantly you can live.
'I lust received letter this morning
from fat woman, no, excuse me-
woman who was very fat six months
ago and is now so proud OF herself that
she sent me two photographs to prove
the difference and in her letter she says
that she feels SO light and strong she
cannot resist taking long walks and
can climb the steepest hills with ease
- wort n wh1lpI'
Il know a man and wife who put
themselves into normal health and
weight over 80 years ago and neither
Of them has gained or lost in weight at
spv time since. The greatest varia'
tion has not at any tine exceeded two
hounds and when they started to ea1
right the man was skin and bones ane
s1nposed to be dying of cancer while
the woman was called a 70 y-poly
IT is hard for people who have not the
vil, power, to change their habits O
eating but anyone can who will. Th'
one thing against which I must eau
+ion all fat folks is drugs. Do no
,pder any circumstances take an!
form of socalled anti at medicines
Eat right and eliminate waste an
~ YOUR weight will be normal.
Club Notes.
Mrs. C. H. W. OF Florida write
about gaining in weight.
Dear DR.. .,Reeder: I know you mus
consider me pest for writing you S
often, but I promise to not write an
more "sick letters
When arrived at the Home Healt
Club Offices in La Porte two years ag
T weighed just 72 pounds and was $
weak and discouraged I could barrel
speak above whisper.
I now weigh 115 pounds, which
normal for my height. l am pa:
forty but my muddy complexion M
changed to peaches and cream. M
dead and falling hair is black, gloss
and vigorous. l ride horseback, pa
tennis, row boat, swim and 40 mo-
1r,,ork +hen ever before in my.llt