Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-09 | Page 8 | The Truth About Diet

The Truth Abo About t Diet B By DR MORRIS l FISHBEIN 1 I Editor Journal of the American l 1 Medical Association and of the tho Health Magazine l A good deal has been written late ate ly y about a system of ot diets promoted by a doctor who is referred to as asa a l nationally known authority on food bod science and also as a famous Viennese expert The records of the American n Medical association show that the gentleman Is Js not a physician physician cian clan that he is not famous and that he is is' not nol a Viennese He has a system of diet which he sells sens to people who are interested in n remarkable plans plans' of eating and he also sells what he calls the zigzag zigzag zig za zag system for weight reduction In this system most of ot the re reduction reduction re- re is brought about aboul by driving the body to rapid elimination using various salts and cathartics He also aIso has some o of the salts salt for sale and their names are such that they must be bought in the form torm formin in which he sells them rather than thanIn In any of ot the common forms torms' in which they are generally available at the drug stores This doctors system of ot dieting has all the things that are wrong with any vegetarian diet and also has the danger of causing coli colitis Us or wasting of the body from over The doctor is convinced apparently apparently apparently that appendicitis can be cured by diets or b by starvation and the tho most dangerous advice he gives is isto isto isto to take some of at the laxatives which he recommends at a time when suffering suf suf- fering from appendicitis Ninety per pcr cent o of the deaths from appendicitis happen to people who try to cure themselves with cathartics or laxatives when they have abdominal pain due to an in inflamed inflamed jn- jn flamed Clamed appendix Tho system also goes goes' so far as to recommend eating onions as 88 a cure for cancer and its sponsor says that deafness can be cured following part of his system of ot elimination The whole system of ot diet is based on misconceptions and it is dangerous for the public to follow follow fol fol- fol- fol low tow these notions