The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-10
HAVE SOME GRAPE JUICE BEFORE MEALS, FATTY

BEtOhE MEALS, FAl1
 The failure of many obese indl- viduals to stick to a fair reduction diet long enough to accomplish any thing is due to three causes:
 l. The patient is not duly i'm pressed with the seriousness of his condition. He regards it as a mere defect in personal appearance or personal comfort. He ought to know that simple nutritional obesity is a definite factor of diabetes. high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis, gradual heart muscle failure, and other diseases.
 2 The patients regimen fails to supply an optimal ration of vita mins, and one reason he gained ex- cess flesh is that his ordinary diet has for years provided insufficient vitamins: when the diet is cut down in calories 1t is cut down in vita mins too. Without adequate vita mins any one is bound to feel far from right, and when one does not feel at all well 1t is not easy to stick to diet.
 3. The patients blood sugar level sometimes falls below the normal, and to resist the craving for food which manifests itself in such cir cumstances is to court actual dan ger.
 A pound week is enough for any ordinary overweight individual to lose. A reduction regimen cal- culated to bring about loss of not over 8 pound a week is likely to prove most successful and most healthful in the long run. The greatest failures, and the greatest tragedies occur when overweight individuals attempt to reduce sev- eral pounds week.
 A practice which has enabled many fat folk to stick to reduc- ton diet when they would certainly have broken training otherwise, is that of drinking small glassful of grape juice about an hour before regular meal time, two or three times a day. Each ounce of grape juice yields approximately the same number of calories as an ounce of fresh sweet milk--about 20 calories. The glucose. (grape sugar. in the juice is quickly absorbed and serves to restore the blood sugar to It's nor maj level. Patients find this seems to satisfy their craving and they are content with little food, where as when the blood sugar is too low there is a tendency to gorge beyond all reason.
 The sources of vitamins are given in a practical way in the booklet Building Vitality, and the special application of this knowledge to the reduction regimen is given in the booklet Design for Dwindling", either of which will be mailed by Dr. Brady if you inclose ten cents coin and stamped envelope bearing your address.
 One source of a good deal of super huous flesh is the habit of taking too much sugar in coffee. tea or with fruit or other food. Moderate excess weight may be controlled by merely substituting saccharin for sugar--a quarter-grain tablet of saccharin having the sweetening effect of spoonful of sugar. and of course saccharin has no nutritive value, whereas a spoonful of sugar yields 90 or more calories. Any one may use up to grains of saccharin daily with impunity.
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