Dyspepsia and how to cure it : description of the digestive organs and of the different kinds of food : special chapters on obesity, leanness and the skin / by M.T. Gerin-Lajoie.

  • Lajoie, M. T. Gerin.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Dyspepsia and how to cure it : description of the digestive organs and of the different kinds of food : special chapters on obesity, leanness and the skin / by M.T. Gerin-Lajoie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    person can go through a long period of absolute fasting, to which would succumb a thin person. We know that Hibernant animals will be three or four months without eating and will live on the fat accumulated during the preceding months. Experience teaches us that :—When fats are ex- cluded from our diet, or not assimilated, our body grows thin ; whilst their excessive use will cause the disagreeable condition called obesity. There- fore fat and sedentary persons will do well to eat food mostly of the second class. Active, lean per- sons ought to eat food mostly of the other two class- es.