The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-24
e up in disgust or in a sanator-

give up in disgust or in a sanator- ium.
 It is a notorious fact that the great majority of persons who do attempt to reduce choose a reduc- tion regimen without benefit of medicine. The family physician is the last adviser they think of when they come down with the reduc- ton fever. Somehow people feel that this is a matter in which regular physcan not interested; Tor his concern is for sick people, and of course fat people are too too healthy. So the over-sized in- dividual who desires to reduce hesitates to even mention the mat ter to his or her medical advis- CT.
 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 now to deal with ordinary every day minor ailments which consti. tute the chief part of the family physician's practice. had a four year course in medicine and sur gery in Class A medical college. but thruout my medical course l never heard reduction even men, toned. I dd learn about a lot of rare maladies which l never en. countered 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 a patient wistfully breaches the ques- ton of reducing? We'll, 1t is much too evident. fear, that the doctor has no very definite ideas of what to think or do about it. This is a deplorable attitude for the fam Fly physician to take, of course, but 1t Is the direct outcome of his ed- ucation and training.
 The successful prescribing and managing of any reduction regimen Is a HEALTH SERVICE, and that's what ails the medical pro- fession in general: the good doc- tors, mean those who are compe- tent in dealing with disease, are pitifully incompetent in the in- creasingly important fields of health and hygiene. Good doctors may have an excellent scientific knowledge of the essentials of hy- giene but due to neglect of this part of their medical schooling they are woefully incapable in the practical application of their know ledge in actual HEALTH SER VICE to their clients.
 In all cases of oversize (call 1t overweight or obesity if you pre- fer) the condition is nutritional. no matter whether ductless gland functions are greatly at fault or not. Thanks largely to research and animal experimentation we have acquired considerable new knowledge of nutrition in the last 10 years, and alert physicians are successfully applying this new knowledge in their HEALTH SER VICE. One of the benefits that have come from better knowledge of nutrition is a rational, scienti- fic, 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 as to the val nO VI hdW POtaSO 0c Q AOOus I like them that way, but have been told they are injurious unless cook ed. (AWK.)
 Answer--If you like raw potato, or any other vegetable raw, that's wholesome, healthful way to take 1t. Tn fact recommend that every one eat some raw vegetable daily.
 Quassia.
 Son, aged 20 months, will not go to sleep unless he is chewing on the blankets or sheets or anything he can reach. (Mrs H. R.)
 Answer-Mother should prevent the baby from acquiring such a habit, or from demanding any such condition to sleep. Try soaking the clothes in tea made by sleeping an ounce of quassia chips in Epint of water. This imparts bit- ter taste, which stops the sucking or chewing of the clothes.
 Rational Reduction.
 In 1920 my sister reduced 80 pounds i'm about two months by following the Carol diet, l think 1t was, that you suggested -. (NIrs A. P.I
 AnsWer-We have more rational methods now. I no longer recom- mend the Karell regimen. Send 10 cents and sac. for booklet Design for Dwindling."