The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-02
SAFE AND SOUND REDUCING
 VI. It Must Be Burned Of

Burn, fat, burn. That's the way you have to get rid of superhuous flesh, whether you reduce by dieting, medicine, ductless gland feeding, ex- ercise walking to work, doing your own housework, climbing trees, play ing tennis, spading garden, distance running, 11ux or by going into de- cline" (that is, flaming the latent spark of tuberculosis which is in most of us into active disease No matter how the reduction is brought about the superfuous fat must be consumed by burning.
 We may regard all obesity or &C., cumulation of superfluous flesh, whether it be hypopituitary, hypo- obesity, as condition directly due to poor combustion, slow oxidation rate lowered metabolism, decreased absorption or utilization of oxygen The vital fire doesn't burn as briskly as it should.
 Deficiency of iodine in food and water, in many regions is one rea- sen why the vital fire tends to shoulder
 HAAOVAACA AC0oOAA WAlJ b1lC OAIQdbAOl4 process tends to slow down is ultro- refinement of the modern diet which removes from natural food most of the vitamins. Universal shortage of vitamins manifests it. self in poor metabolism. This ap- plies to the combustion of carbo- hydrate material, starches and sug- ars in the refined or purified state : such food is the source of most of the daily calories in the modern diet. Since refinement processes remove most of the vitamins which the body requires for complete util- ization or oxidation of carbohydrate the unburned portion is stored as . fat.
 For scientific information on the carbohydrate metabolism I refer the role of vitamin B1 (thiamin) ir lay or medical reader to Williams and Spies "Vitamin B1 and Its Use in Medicine" (The MacMillar Vo., '38). Perhaps the public library has it. Incidentally, every diabetes patient and his or her physician should keep ever in mind the inn portance of an optimal daily ration of vitamin B complex in the re- stricted diet or as a supplement to such diet. It enables many diabetes patients to get along with less in- sulin-vitamin B is properly called poor mans insulin". Incidentally again, I may quote this significant statement from Training for Dia- betes" (for copy send ten cents and stamped envelope bearing your address):
 People who are training for dia-
 betes generally take on super1u-
 ous flesh and carry this excess
 weight for ten years or more be-
 fore they finally achieve diabetes
 .. It is the direct route to dia-
 betes if you have inherited the
 potentiality."
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Gray Hair
 Druggist didn't seem to know any thing about para-aminobenzioc acid Please state what can be done tc keep the hair from turning gray premateurely. (Mrs. E. B.
 Answer-Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for pamphlet Care of the Hair. Para-amino- benzioc acid and pantothenic acio are both entities in the natural vita min B complex and both may be es- sential to prevent premature gray ing of hair. Likewise suitable iodin ration, according to the testi- mony of many of our readers, pre- vents premature graying and ever restores come of the natural color in some cases.
 Where To Get Respirators
 Can you tell me the nearest hos pital or other place where they have a respirator for emergency use ir