Show Obesitys Condition of Being Too Fat and Its problem Remedy Uy nu IAUCEr LMflE I HESITy or pionoumcd fatness is n disease and there is no O controverting the fact that men and women arc Ihcmsehc responsible for allowing surplus nvoiulupois < to wreck their happiness mid health und ruin their opportunities in life The doctor if he is n good one can only tell them that I obesity nrises from two specific causes namely overfeeding nnd undcrexcicising In the case of most of them the doctOI lenins that the patient eats much and frequently because oln horror he has of Buffering physical injury from hunger and its pains The proper treatment of obesity is founded on the physiological mechanism of obesity itself Since obesity is accounted for by an excess of feeding receipts over the expenditure of energy in the budget of the organism the remedy is pretty obvious namely first to diminish the feeding feed-ing receipts and secondly to increase the expenditure of energy in order to decrease the amount of adipose tissue But again there is one very important part of any proposed remedy to consider You must have character enough to forego your old selfindulgence Every form of dissipation dis-sipation predisposes the body to the disease of fatness Indulgence in drinking weakens the muscular fiber and makes it so flabby or loose that the adipose matter creeps into the interstices Overindulgence in Turkish n or hot baths predisposes the system to fleshgathering in exactly the same way Cold baths on the other hand by robbing the body of its heat diminish di-minish the superfluous grease in the system and so solidify the general j texture of the frame However there is no denying it the best thing is to avoid fatness if t you can In order to do this there is needed character enough to dispense with all things that tend to weaken the body and to eat anddrink only what is necessary |