The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-21
THE ECONOMY OF REDUCTION

million persons wish to reduce. Wish
ing is as far as twenty million Of them
will 60. Ten million will sooner or
later have try at one method or an
other and perhaps ten thousand Of
these will succeed In reducing to 4
noticeable degree. The other nine
million nine hundred ninety thous-
and will suffer for two or three weeks
on the reduction regimen they elect,
lose nothing to matter except their
health and vitality and good looks,
and finally give up In disgust or in .
sanatorium.
It IS . notorious fact that the great
majority Of persons who do attempt
t. reduce choose q reduction regimen
without benefit Of medicine. The
family physician Is the last adviser
they think Of when they come down
with the reduction fever. Somehow
people feel that this is q matter In
which q regular physician Is not in
tereSted; for hts concern Is for sick
people. and Of course fat people are
too. too healthy. So the diversified
individual who desires to reduce
hesitates to even mention the matter
to his or her medical adviser.
The medical profession Is itself to
blame for this odd situation. Our
system Of medical education in this
country has gone highbrow and the
future practitioner learns everything
in medical school except how to deal
with ordinary everyday minor all
ments which constitute the chief part
Of the family physicians practice. !
had q four year course In medicine
and surgery in Glass A medical COL
lege, but thruout my medical course
never heard reduction even mention
ed. I did learn about q lot Of rare
maladies which I never encountered
IN practice.
MY plight was not different from
the plight Of most physicians Of my
day. I suspect the situation has not
changed much in the last thirty years.
What does the average good doctor
think or do today when q patient
wistfully breaches the question Of re-
ducing. Well, it Is much too evident,
I fear, that the doctor has no very
definite ideas Of what to think or do
about 1t. This Is Z deplorable atti-
tude for the family physician to take,
o. course, but 1t Is the direct outcome
OF his education and training.
The successful prescribing and man
aging Of any reduction regimen Is .
HEALTH SERVICE, and that's what
ais the medical profession in general:
the good doctors, mean those who
are competent in dealing with disease,
are pitifully incompetent In the In
|creasingly important fields Of health
and hygiene. Good doctors may have
m excellent scientific knowledge Of
the essentials Of hygiene but due to
neglect Of this part Of their medical
schooling they are woefully incapable
II the practical application Of their
knowledge in actual HEALTH SER
VICE to their clients.
In all cases Of oversize (call it ov-
erweight or obesity II you prefer) the
condition Is nutritional, no matter
whether ductless gland functions are
greatly at fault or not. Thanks large.
~ to research and animal experiment
tation we have acquired considerable
new knowledge Of nutrition In the last
10 years, and alert physicians are sue
cessfully applying this new knowledge
In their HEALTH SERVICE. One
Of the benefits that have come from
better knowledge Of nutrition Is "a
tionAl. scientific, basic reduction plan
which gives the physician = mastery
Of the problem he has not had here
tofore.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Likes His Taters Raw
Kindly inform me 8 to the value
Of raw potato . . food. I like them
that way. but have Ben Told they
are injurious unless cooked. (AWK.)
Answer-If you like raw potato. O.
any other vegetable raw. that's Z
wholesome, healthful way to take It
In fact I recommend that every one