Foods for the fat : a treatise on corpulence, and its scientific dietary cure / by Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies.

  • Yorke-Davies, Nathaniel Edward, 1844-
Date:
1891
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Credit: Foods for the fat : a treatise on corpulence, and its scientific dietary cure / by Nathaniel Edward Yorke-Davies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    entangled in its toils, that he or she finds, when it becomes necessary to grapple with it, the power to do so curtailed, and the effort of taking the steps formerly advised so weakening as to be practically dangerous or too painful to continue. Happily for such people, science comes to their aid, and without curtailing very much the pleasures of the table, the diet may be so arranged that, without any danger to health or length of life—indeed, with increase to both—a person may safely and permanently reduce bulk and fat to a degree compatible with enjoyment. A few cases out of a very great number treated interspersed throughout this little work will illustrate this. The question will be asked. How may this be done ? A medical adviser who says to the victim of corpulency, ' You must avoid a diet containing sugar and starch '—the princi- pal fatteners—generally gets the reply : ' But, doctor, I don't know what articles do;' for the ordinary individual, and, as far as that goes, the ordinary practitioner, does not make dietetics a study, and the reply is perfectly true in the majority of cases. The victim purges and starves himself for a few days, doing serious harm, and making the remedy worse than the disease; or he consults some quack, who robs him, and ruins his constitution. Under these circum- stances life becomes a burden, and if the victim be well-to- do—and generally he is—he is debarred the pleasures of hunting, fishing, shooting, and all other enjoyable outdoor exercises. Such people should read this little work, which is a scientific system of treating obesity, and certain in its