The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-31
A Stomach To Stomach Talk With Our Oversize Friends

A Stomach To Stomach Talk
 With Our Oversize Friends
 Useless to try to explain your enormity, Fatty, by observing that your Aunt Henrietta was very stout and so was your Cousin Jo, unless your obesity is the compar- atively rare type, ductless gland deficiency. Such ductless gland trouble does run in families. But your euxpansive perimeter, big boy, is quite obviously a nutritional disorder. In short you're fat be- cause you eat too much or laZe too much or both, and that's all there is to say about it.
 In a talk back forninst we com pared your plight with that of the drinker, if you can remember, and informed the world that the drink CT cultiyates his craving for liq- uor but you came by your craving for pure carbohydrate quite with out your will or knowledge. You had to accept the food offered you or none, and the food ffered was pretty badly treated before it came to your table.
 Without explaining to you what they are or how to get them your Creator endowed you with a crav- ing or demand for certain food el- ements or accessories that most re- fined foods lack, namely the min- erals and the vitamins.
 If we lived natural lives and ate natural food obesity like yours, Falstaff, would be rare phenom- enon. But we get most of our food without having to find 1t; 1t Is pre- pared in various ways to make eat ing easier. 1t is favored with all sorts of condiments and sauces to encourage us to cat it even when he have no stomach for 1t and are not really hungry; and it comes in forms calculated to slide down without any trouble at all, you don't even have to chew the stuff. The wonder is that a few people escape obesity for years.
 For years physicians and health authorities have preached the inn portance of ivtamins and minerals in food. Not many laymen have listened, or If they have heard they have not needed.
 People who suffer impairment in health from deficiences in their oIoplt lVOfi-dlu We IIIuSL HOW re- gard obesity as one such deficiency disease-seldom bother to do any thing about 1t until they are pretty far gone. Down south the poor white trash paid no attention to ,the oft-sounded warnings of the health authorities about the dan ger of getting pellagra from mo- notonous diet of corn pone, tea, col 10 oee doing something about it until they were taken away to an institution where some one else sees that in- mates get the vitamins they need.
 It is much the same in respect to exercise. No, no, big boy, you are not disinclined to work or play be- cause you are SO stout; you're so stout because you are so lazy. Don't deceive yourself about that, whatever you may tell strangers. Other circumstances being normal, mere corpulency or excessive bulk is no excuse for evading work, play or daily exercise of some kind, nothing better than daily walk. As long as there is doubt about that in your mind, give yourself the benefit of the doubt by taking from two to six miles of oxygen on the hoof every day, and you'll soon find out you are getting out of the vicious circle and not only benefitting from your exercises but enjoying 1t.
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