Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-11-12 | Page 16 | Daily Health Service

My Daily Health 0 o- Service Service-o o 0 k B By DR NORRIS FISHBEIN I EdU Editor EdItor r Journal of the ADur American uD H Medical Med ical leal Association ocla loD and arid 0 of if l the Health Magazine i Drs D. D N. N Dunlap and B. B L 1 Murray Mur- Mur ray Lyon Scotch physicians are are con convinced cori vinced that most people who get fat tat do doso so because they eat too much and take too little exercise There are art however many Instances in which two people eat exactly th the same diet In the same amounts one becoming overweight anc the other retaining normal weight The obvious difference difference differ differ- ence enee in th these se two cases vases is the manner in which the body disposes of the food that is taken in It is well es- es es established established that the glands of the body including particularly the pituitary the thyroid and and- the sex glands are related to the question of ot the disposal disposal dis dEs of sugars and of ot fat It U is s well recognized that among women as they gain maturity as they have children and as they approach the period at the end of middle age there is a special tendency to change in weight Men are are in general more active physically than women They spend more time in the open air eat mo more morel proteins a and ii 14 l jess lees sugars and andare nd ad adare are are less likely to search for to-r reduction In weight Just to look better The rhe commonest age for fy forthe the beginning o of overweight is between 20 and 40 years ot of ago alc In women the average being usually around 30 Among men the onset of overweight is likely to come on somewhat third lOne One third of the wo women n n who were examined by the Scotch physicians associate their t tendency to overweight overweight overweight over over- weight with childbirth There are however other factors to be tak taken n Into account For instance the period period pe pe- rind of childbirth Is approximately 30 20 years of a age e. e which Is the beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning of the thc p period when most wo women men tend to become fat Furthermore Furthermore Further Further- more it is Ls the tendency of human beings beings be be- ings lags to associate some striking oCcurrence occurrence oC oc occurrence currence in hi their lives with the onset of oC some physical change Thus if ifa ifa ifa a child chUd becomes paralyzed or shows signs of mental weakness the parents parents par par- eats are likely to associate this with an accidental fall from the high chair Children who have developed ons of the bones or of the heart are usually blamed for having been overactive overactive overactive over- over active or for having indulged in some sonic particular strain when the actual cause Is Lt perhaps a hidden infection in the tonsils or In the teeth Of course following childbirth a a woman is likely to r rest t much more than previously and also to cat much more This would explain the tendency tendency ten ten- dency to overweight at such a time