Banting in India : with some remarks on diet and things in general / by Joshua Duke.

  • Duke, Joshua, 1847-
Date:
1885
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Credit: Banting in India : with some remarks on diet and things in general / by Joshua Duke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    obtained his food, doing very hard work and enjoying perfect health. The obese sufferer has now many diets placed before him. If the Ebstein, or Modified Banting, or the Diabetic diet suit him individually, let him continue to adopt it. But whichever plan he choose for himself, let him remember, at the same time, the importance of the general principles laid down in these pages. Let his own feelings, consistent with his loss in weight and bulk, decide what is best suited to his particular case. If more latitude were given, if the corpulent would make more use of their common sense, sticking too rigidly neither to this or that, there would be fewer opponents to these dietary systems, and many thousands of pounds which are annually spent on drugs to relieve the distressing symptoms due solely to corpulency would be saved. By way of assisting the obese sufferer, who is com- mencing the Banting diet, I would recommend the trial of a comparatively new drug ‘ Cuca.’* It is obtained from Peru, and is chewed by the Indians when going on long and exhausting journeys. The corpulent like the Indian has a long journey before him. The effects of * For further information about this drug, vide Appendix.