| Show H HORE OW V I 1 R E DAY DR JAMES W BARTON to halout treatment of overweight HEN insurance figures definite W VV ly show that in north america about two in every five of 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 every overweight knows that the proper or scientific way to reduce IT K weight is to eat less food and do more work this simple method gives in return for or the fat lost real healthy or vigorous muscle tissue which not only gives dr barton strength ot of body but actually invites work or exercise thus giving further strength however holeve r 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 end and up toa to a certain point he has been given this dislike for work or exercise further ey every time he performs a simple action like wal walking kingor or running ghe 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 it if we wish to eat an extra slice of bread an extra square of butter or a second dessert we d ont dont give this extra food a second thought to those who are ov overweight er it means just that much extra tat fat added to their weight time to try other methods however food can only be reduced to a certain point and ana only tor 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 nori mal weight tor for his build then if he is still a number of pounds overweight he would be justified in asking his physician about the use ot of thyroid pituitary or other gland extracts extract or perhaps the new drug dl drs leona M bayer and H gray in the american journal of medical science report the methods us used ed in unselected overweight patients treated in an outpatient out patient clinic one hundred were treated by diet alone at first then 51 were div given n thyroid treatment and 23 dl better weight losses would have been achieved it if the patients had cut down more conscientiously on their food but of co course urse when the patients only report once a week or once a month almonth tills this is to be expected the results accomplished show that diet alone alona will take off an average of 15 pounds in less than three and one halt half months when dieting dieling falls to get results either thyroid extract or dl appears to be effective in causing a further loss in weight when there was no loss shown for a whole month the patient continued tor for one more month on the reduced diet it if at the end of this time two whole months there had been no loss ot of weight then thyroid extract was given as long as the patient continued to lose weight when the weight remained the same then dl was used until there 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 n off by the use ot of thyroid extract or r dl 4 itching Pr it has been truly said that all the world itches but for different reasons reasons to iri different persons thus the very cleanest end and the he very dirtiest individuals itch those who perspire too much huchor or not enough itch those who are big eaters and those who are small mall eaters itch atch itching or pr amicis as it Is called by physicians when it exists for any length of time has usually been referred to a skin specialist however itching can be a symptom of b 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 mention samong other kotlier causes of itching such ailments as diabetes ja jaundice tin dice leukemia leu kamla great increase in the white corpuscles corpus cles to in the blood and uremia waste products left iri in the blood that should have been removed by the kid kidneys neis one of the commonest causes of itching Is gout that food and ather substances to which individuals are sensitive an can I 1 cause itching is very clearly shown in those eases ceases where hives and eczema appear after e eating at ng foods fobbs or coming in contact with certain substances some organic all ailments mirits of the nervous system have it itching citing as 83 a symptom the thought then Is that itching may not hot be due to any akini condition but to any of the bove above a min mentioned causes 4 copyright U los |
