Show ION X DAY DR RJ JAMES A M I 1 W BARTON to i A about out 9 0 J inherited overweight EN a patient consults a phy WH W aclan regarding a reduction in his or her weight one of the first questions the physician will ask is about the parents grandparents uncles aunts and cousins it if there Is a tendency to overweight on the side ot of either of the parents barents the physician knows that the weight reduction is apt to take some time dr R gurney buffalo in archives of internal medicine stud chicago stud died seventy five stout women la in the outpatient department of the buffalo general hospital with three points in mind 1 the factors associated with the tha onset of over dr barton weight as compared to the same factors or circumstances occurring in a non stout group of women 2 the indigence Indi cence or occurrence of overweight in the parents of the stout group as opposed to that in the parents of a non stout group 3 the body build of the progeny or children of different with especial reference to inheritance of build fifty five women who were definitely not stout were chosen at random as controls that Is for comparison because they were of normal weight and build these controls were of the same age group as the stout women and had practically the same number of operations and the same number of children operations and childbirth were named by both groups of women as the time at which they noticed the great increase in weight others reported that the great increase in weight came on at puberty 14 to 16 years of age and others that it came on at the change of life 45 to 50 years of age when the build of the parents of the stout group and of the control group is investigated a difference in the occurrence occur ence of overweight is noticed many had stout ra parents rents of af sixty one stout women whose family history was easily investigated twenty six had a stout mother nine had a stout father and fifteen had both a stout mother and a stout father in contrast to all this stoutness to in the family history of the forty seven not stout patients whose family history was a also Is 0 easily investigated fourteen had a stout mother one had a stout father and three had both a stout mother and a stout fatter father thus in the non stout group there was a total of 38 per cent with either ther one or both parents stout as opposed to U per cent in the stout group A study of the progeny or children of different is of interest there were 89 children from of stout persons 65 of whom were stout of tha children of of a stout end and a not stout person 70 were fatout of the children of of persons who w h 0 were not stout only 16 were stout this would show that while in stout individuals there are cell elements which tend to leanness in thin or non stout individuals there are apparently no cell elements that tend to stoutness it is in the cases with an inherited he tendency to overweight that a physician is justified in using gland extracts where the excess weight is distributed all over the body the thyroid extract may be of help where the excess weight is over Rb domen hips and shoulders with forearms or earms and lower legs lender the use of extract of the anterior pituitary gland the little gland lying on the floor ot the skull should give results planning health and energy when the business man plans that his income will take care of expenses he is said to budget his financial undertakings A great many housewives work orf on or use a budget putting aside so much for rent for food for fuel tor for clothing tor for medical and dental attention and a nd blittle a uwe tor for the savings bank it would seem then that it would be only good sense it ff each and every one of us wire were to budie budget t our health our energy so that we could do al au that was possible tor for our health or energy to do without robbing ourselves ou selves and so ca causing using ill health find and lack of energy dr gaorge crile in his b book 0 ok diseases peculiar to civilized man shows bow the insane desire for speed of au all kinds which afflicts and sometimes times seems like to ruin Us this rather mad geneia generation tion is thi the cause ot of uch such well recognized ailments ailment as ulcer of the stomach and intestine increase ln in the activity of th the e thyroid gland in tife the neck so that all this th processes ot of the body ire are driven at an indrea increased sed ritti rate of speed weak weakness nest ot of the muscular and nervous system and brought about the knowledge of how to cure these thase conditions br b cutting the transmission between th brain and the overdriven organs the treatment Is for the physician to show the patient thatis that it is ill overspending over spending of energy in work or play that is causing the symptoms copyright korv Br arro ro |