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Show FASTING foil COKPULtNT PEOPLE Dealor tiarlnrea II fa the Natural ItemaUy lor Too Mnoh I at. In tlm reatutirant nearly everybody was too fiit, ami the pliysli Inns, Including In-cluding all II, i-o p, minimis paunches and double cl.lns In a aiic rlnr, glance, remarked, "Why will men ami women be dUflKiirril with corpulence a hen tho remedy la so simple mnl sine? What la the remedy? Why. It la. of cotllse. the nntunil one that would occur to an animal or a savage. It la fasting. 11 the ft man or the fnt woman fast a week, two werka, three weeka, or a month fast till ho or she be thin enough about once a year, say, and corpulence, that most unsightly and unhealthy condition, would Yanleh from the face of the earth. "1 euppoae these fools are afraid to do this," the physlclsn continued, according ac-cording to the Philadelphia Record. "They think, proheoly that before they would get sufficiently thin they would starve to death. But the picture of the Cuban and the Indian famine victims vic-tims anawer that tear well enough. None of those folks died of starvation till thsie was nothing left of them but kin and bone. Faatlng would be a very good thing for fat people to do regularly. They would then keep always al-ways shapely. During their abstinence they would live on snd consume their own fst. aa hibernating animals do," |