Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1885 — Useful Hints to Fleshy People. [ARTICLE]

Useful Hints to Fleshy People.

Recourse to starvation, anti-fat. dieting by measure, aud the swallowing of acids is not only absurd but suicidal. Mr. Banting’s dietary is so depleting to the system that for one relieved thereby a dozen suffer positive injury. Any one can reduce his flesh by not eating sufficient food to repair the waste that is constantly going on. The cure, however, in this oase is worse than the disease. Starvation remedies are of no account, for abstinence from food means a sacrifice of albumen as well as fat, and anaemia ensues. A strict regimen is the only eure for obesity. A dietary, however, that robs the system of its nutrition should be avoided. Fat is supposed to produce fat. Such is not the case. Fat, combining with the carbo-hydrates and albuminous compounds, operates directly against obesity. No dyspeptic need fear to eat fat so long as too much is not taken. Fat checks all nitrogenous waste and appeases thirst as well as hunger. The great thing to be done in order to correct corpulence is to abstain from eating starchy and saccharine foods. Vegetables rich in albumen, however, make desirable dishes. Potatoes should never be eaten. Fish and all kinds of meats can be eaten at pleasure, but beer and malt liquors generally should be avoided, in consequence of the carbo-hy-drates contained therein. A dietary from which the sugars a id starches are excluded will do for the corpulent what no medicine can do —that is, make them thin. Paper flour barrels, a recent invention, are coming into favor in some parts of the West.