Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — Sleep as a Fat Producer. [ARTICLE]

Sleep as a Fat Producer.

In an interview a Boston athlete says: Did you ever hear of unybody sleeping himself fut? No! Well, it’s a common enough thing, I nssuro you. Almost every young man who has lived loisurely all his life until ho is thirty will begin to show sigrtsof fat at that ago. The usual theory that obtains is that a mnn only grows fat on the food that ho consumes, and technically that theory is all right. But it makes all the difference in the world how a man lives whether a given amount of food takendaily will havo any increased effect on his avoirdupois. There are three simple rules that I try to enforce on men who come to me to be cured of fat. First, I say, “Eat less.” Then, “Work more.” And then, "Sleep less.” I have often noticed a curious look in the eye of the patient who is told to sloop less, lie inwardly jests at such advice, or he grumbles ugaiust it. and concludes that it may be disregarded. But let me tell you, sleep is the great fattener. It will produce flesh more rapidly than unything that I know of.