| Show HOW TO GET THIN Principles of the Celebrated Banting System as Laid Down br Him Notwithstanding the long list included among the respiratory elements of food that must necessarily be excluded in any systematic sys-tematic dieting for the reduction of fat there yet remain many food products that are not prohibited Lean meats sweetbreads sweet-breads fish excepting right kinds such aa salmon and eels clear soups poultry game eggs cheese green vegetables toast gluten bread fresh fruit vegetables and pickles are allowable articles of diet By a strict adherence to a diet selected mainly from the above list Mr Banting tho originator the system bearing his name reduced himself greatly In weight His height was five feet five inches and his weight 202 pounds He began dieting undor the direction of a London physician in August ltC3 and by September 1854 a little lit-tle moro than a year he had reduced his weight to 150 pounds and his girth by 12 > inches I i The reduction was permanent and was followed by great improvement in health I I Mr Banting confined himself to the following follow-ing dietary BreakfastFour or five ounces of beef I mutton kidneys boiled fish bacon or cold I meat of any kind except pork a large cup of tea without milic or sugar and one ounce of dry toast Ii DinnerFive or six ounces of any fish except salmon or eels any meat except Iporkany i I vegetables except potatoes or rice one ounce of dry toast fruit out of any pudding any kind of poultry or game and two or three glasses of good claret sherry or Madeira champagne port or beer forbidden TeaTwo or three ounces of fresh fruit or a rusk or two and a cup of tea without milk or sugar The tea may be very much I enjoyed when taken in the Russian fashion 10 with a thick slice of lemon floating on the top Instead of milk SupperThree or four ounces of meat or fish similar to dinner with a glass oi claret It is hardly necessary to say that the quantities of the different articles specified must be left to the natural appetite some requiring more perhaps others less In addition to diet exercise is of the utmost ut-most Importance Within the limits of ones capacity all forms of exercise such as riding walking rowing and gymnastics are of benefit by directly inducing an increased in-creased oxidation of tissue improving the the quality of the blood and its oxygen I carrying power The administration of drugs for the reduction of fat Is in the main exceedingly unsatisfactory Corpulence is however sometimes associated asso-ciated with and directly dependent upon an impoverished condition of the blood known as antcmia and in these cases the admin S istration of iron in some form of the greatest great-est advantage the condition of tho blood improves tho fat diminishes Those medicines however that In themselves them-selves tend to reduca flesh are capable also of dare the greatest harm The Iodides d-are of this class and those quack medicines that are advertised so extensively as fat reducers depend for their value upon the Iodine they contain It would be difficult to estimate the damage done to health occasioned oc-casioned by their indiscriminate use Frank iesHts JYuldu I 9 i Cjsn < > u |
