Foods for the fat : the dietetic cure of obesity with chapters on the treatment of gout by diet / by Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies.

  • Yorke-Davies, Nathaniel Edward, 1844-
Date:
1899
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Credit: Foods for the fat : the dietetic cure of obesity with chapters on the treatment of gout by diet / by Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FOODS FOR THE FAT PART I. CORPULENCY. T. Of all the evils to which humanity is subject, there is not one more common than excess of fat, or one that causes greater discomfort, or indirectly tends more to shorten life. In men this common condition of disease begins to show itself between the ages of thirty and fifty, in women a few years earlier. It is not unusual for cases to be brought to me in childhood and early life of abnormal development in this way. Though it may not be a disease in itself—unless it attains enormous proportions—it often induces disease by impeding the victim from taking that exercise that nature demands to stimulate the functions of the different organs that keep the body in robust health. 2. Though this condition is so frequent, it is not one that meets with much sympathy, for the sufferer is generally considered to be fond of good eating, and deserving of his abnormal proportions, and the ordinary run of practitioners who are consulted seldom offer any consolation, or suggest a remedy ; indeed, few medical men give the attention to dietetics in the treatment of disease that disease demands, and as the result, in this case the corpulent person too frequently consults, and falls an easy prey to, some quack, who finds him a profitable