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Show Obesity Undesirable. Are you fat? Be on your guard If you are. Doctor Joslln of Boston has gathered striking statistics that show nn undeniable association of obesity and diabetes, the condition In which sugar, the most common of food fuels, is not properly metabolized or stored In the body. There are In this couniry alone more than half a million diabetics. dia-betics. "The penalty of taking too much alcohol Is well known, and a drunkard Is looked upon with pity or contempt," says Doctor Joslln. "Rarely, "Rare-ly, persons who become fat deserve pity, because of a real tendency to put on weight despite moderate eating, hut most of them should he placed In somewhat some-what the same category as the alcoholic. alco-holic. In 900 cases out of 1,000 being be-ing fat implies too much food or too little exercise, or both combined." Science Service. |