Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1901 — Method of Reducing Weight. [ARTICLE]

Method of Reducing Weight.

Th* Banting method of reducing •weight wm invented and practiced by William Bunting, an Englishman, *bout the year 1871. Before commenchie experiments his weight was 220 pounds, and his breath was short and Wa motions slow and laborious. For breakfast he took about five ounces beef, mutton, broiled fish, or cold meat of any kind except pork; a large cup of tea,, without milk or sugar; a small biscuit or one ounce of dry toast. His dinner consisted of fire or six ounces of any fish except salmon, any meat except pork, any vegetable except potato, one ounce of dry toast, any kind of poultry or game, and two or three glasses of Madeira, sherry or Claret —beer, porter or ale being forbidden. For tea, two or three ounces of fruit, one or two small biscuits and a cup of tea without milk or sugar. For supper, three or four ounces of meat or fish, similar to dinner, with a glass or two of claret. He breakfasted between eight and nine o’clock, dined between one and two, took tea between five and sig, and supper at nine. Under this treatment he lost forty-six pounds In weight in a little more than - u year.—-New York Weekly.