| Show HEALTH I Scientific Measure of Calories Chief Factor in I Gaining or Redu Reducing ing Weight Writes Dr Fishbein BY DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Jy Hy- Hygeia geia the Health Magazine There are aro aU all sorts of fads and fancies for reducing weight but there is one ce certain tain fact about weight weight-no verson person will gain in weight if tile the nimber of calories taken into the body balances or Is less than the amount of energy put out There is a small number ot of cases cases S Of people whose glands do not function tune tune- tion adequately and who tend t. t to put on weight on small amounts ot of food Cod i but even even evenIn In these cases the gland treatment is important for the glandular glandular glan- glan dular condition and not for the reduction re- re ot of weight Some people use UP much more energy than do do- others some people peo- peo pie have low metabolic rates and hence tend to put on fat The scientific reduction of weIght takes taJes into account the metabolic rate and governs the treatment accordInglY CALCULATING DIET Recently physicians have been curing euring weight reduction in patients r. r 5 s ls it safe to take headache headache head head- ache powders S A. Headache is a of ofa a dIsease of t one kind or another The headache powder merely merelo serves to dun dull tile the pain Rom headache powders are safer than others All of them in dent doses are poisonous by calculating the correct diet for forthe forthe the Ideal weight or whatever weIght is desired and feeding the patient accordinglY For instance a woman 34 years of age 64 s tall and married should have hav an Ideal weight GO 60 l kilograms kilo kilo- iloA grams or pounds A diet was calculated for her so that she had hada a daily intake ot of calories which Included 60 grams of protein 45 grams of carbohYdrate and 29 grams ot of fat Silo She weighed at tile the beginning of treatment nt pounds or 01 SO kilo kilo- rams g-rams It If she wished to m maintain this weight she would have to take 2400 calories a day It was sti- sti mated th therefore th that t she he would lose from 12 to tn 14 Hound i n. n n month on nn I I the reduced diet Tl n Tile d diet i w was maintained for ten weeks during durin which time she lost 42 pounds At the end of tile the period she began began be- be gan to feel tired and amI exhausted The diet was increased increased- until the She 1 gaIned foul pounds and then then changed so that silo she would maintain tills this weight S S TYPICAL DI DIET ET Tile The typical reduction diet such as was Ivas given to tills this woman and others bf f type included for breakfast breakfast break break- fast one egg and lou four ounces 0 of assorted as- as sorted vegetables vegetables- including lettuce spinach asparagus celery mush mush- 10 L i h-i nn v. v cauliflower radishes cabbage cb-bage and onions dinner on one cup of bullion three ounces of lean Jean meat weighed after cookIng and four ounces of aSA as- assorted sorted Other Otiler direction included the omIssion ot of lard and butted In in- cooking cooking cook cook- ing ui the avoidance of tried fried foods and the preparatIon of the without milk oil Or egg egg- dressing It is also important to ize that tha t everything on the list must he be eaten Such patients also are advIsed advised ad- ad to take a teaspoonful of soda In a half glass of water twice each cach day to avoid avaid acidosIs which may develop during reduction by dieting Obviously tile the proper handling ot of a on reduced diet is an extremely and technical l matter InvolvIng regular observation observation tion and study to a avoid aId Id dangerous The human bOd body is in many respects re- re me like a machne which demands demands de- de mands a certain amount of fuel for fora a certain amount of energy output but it varies from machine In the fact that it will Use the up machine mD- mD chine itself if the fuel Is not equivalent equivalent lent to the energy output The original land grant for the town of Lexington K Ky made to Benjamin Borden in 1739 b lv King g n II has hail hp John of Tex rex |
