| Show H HORE 0 wv N mk R I 1 auw DAY DR R JAMES W BARTON to s about treatment of overweight HEN insurance figures definite W VV ly show that in north america about two in every five ot the adult population are overweight and that overweight Is a handicap to good health it is only natural that trying to prevent and reduce the overweight condition should be a matter of vital importance to a great number of people practically lly every AM overa overweight eight knows that the proper croper or scientific way to reduce weight is to eat less tood food and d do 0 more work this simple method gives in return for the fat lost real healthy or vigorous muscle tissue which not only gives dr barton strength of body but actually invites work or exercise thus giving further strength however those of normal weight cannot grasp what cutting down on food and performing more work means to the overweight individual he has been given this great desire forwood for food and up toa to a certain point he has hag been given this dislike tor for work or exercise fu further arther ey every ery time he performs a simple action like wal walking kingor or running he is doing perhaps 60 50 per cent more work than when this is done by one of normal weight thus to those of us of normal weight if we wish to eat an extra slice of bread an extra square of butter or a second dessert we dont give this extra food a second thought to those who are overweight it means lust just that much extra fat added to their weight time to try other methods however food can only be reduced to a certain point and only for a certain length of time when the time arrives when no more weight Is being lost and the individual is eating just the amount of food that should be eaten if he were of normal weight tor for his bis build then if he is still a number of pounds overweight he would be justified in asking his physician about the use of thyroid pituitary or other gland extract or perhaps the new drug drag drs leona M bayer and H gray in the american journal of medical science report the methods used in unselected overweight patients treated in an outpatient out patient clinic one hundred were treated by diet alone at first then 51 were given thyroid treatment and 23 better weight losses would have been achieved if the patients had cut down more conscientiously on their food but of course when the patients only report once a week or once a month this is to be expected the results accomplished show that diet alone alon will take oft off an average of 15 pounds in in less less than three and one halt half months when dieting dieling falls fails to get results either thyroid extract or or appears to be effective in causing a further loss in weight when there was no loss shown for a whole month the patient continued for one more month on the reduced diet if at the end of this time two whole months there had been no loss of weight then thyroid extract extrac t was given as long as the patient continued to lose weight when the weight remained th the a same then was used until there here was no further loss at which time it was felt that the limit of the reduction in weight had been reached it was found that when 20 pounds had been lost by diet alone another 5 or 6 pounds could be taken off by the use of thyroid extract or itching it has been truly said that all the world itches but for different reasons reasons in different persons thus the very cleanest and the very dirtiest individuals als itch those wh who 0 perspire too much or not enough itch those who are big eaters eater sand and those who are small eaters itch itching or pr wit as it Is called by phy physicians si clans when it exists for i any any length of time has ui usually fallk bee been anre referred to a skin specialist however itching etching can be a symptom ot of so many ailments that it Is really the work of the family physician according to an article by lord horder in the british lancet he mentions am among ong other causes of itching such all ailments aliments ments as diabetes jaundice leukemia great increase in the white corpuscles corpus cles in the blood blobs and ur urcela crilla waste products left in the blood that should have been removed by the be kid kidneys neis one of tho the commonest causes of itching is gout that food and other ather substances to which individuals are alre sen sensitive sitivi can cause itching is very clearly chown in those cases where hives caria aad and eczema eczema appear after eating foods or coming in contact with certain substances some organic ailments of the tha nervous system have itching so as a symptom tha thought theoli then Is that itching may not be due to any tion but to any of f the above hiim mentioned t causes |
