ON GETTING FAT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 225, 22 September 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)

ON GETTING FAT.

Why is it, we wonder, that.the subject of being fat has always been looked upon as a subject of mirth and ribald laughter to the uneducated mind. Yet so it is, a fat person is a subject for ioke, while a thin person is invariably condoled with by the ignorant. Yet it is so often that the fat one should be bhe one condoled with and the thin'one i. subject of jestrif such things as physical disability should ever" be a jest, which we do not believe. The days in which some unfortunate half idiot.was kept at a prince's court as a subject if merriment have passed away, but the cruelty dormant in the heart of some people, chiefly because they do not >r cannot think clearly to a conclusion ire still with us. Getting fat is often i subject of dire trouble to many a woman, and men, those of small mental capacity and little refinement, add to their torture. Such a one says that she is a very hard worker, beine the breadwinner of the family, rises at iialf past five, except on two mornings when ahe rises at six forty-five, and then walks a mile night and morning before she rides many miles over very bad roads, works eight honra very hard rod when she returns home has a dinler to cook, so no one can say that ndolence is the cause of her getting fat, for which she has to bear a lot )f ill-natured jeering. In fact, it is )ften a sign of ill-health, .which the :ruel and stupid do not seem to underhand. Probably it is a matter of diet nore or less. A friend of the writer's who also had her living to earn and was getting fat m middle life, dropped ier weight eight pounds in a very short ;ime by giving up eating potatoes, not Irinking with her meals, and also jrivine ip sweets. Too many women make -heir meals from starch, such as pudlings, sweet cakes, scones, bread and mtter, all starch and fat-forming foods These should be rigorously given up. Vegetables and meat can take their dace, for most of us eat far too much or. the good of our health. We should Innk freely of water between meals, he students of dfet tell us, and thus 'eep the channels clean. That we do lot need all the food we are constantly weighing ourselves down with was shown >y another friend of the writer's who aid he would do without food for a veek and did so. Questioned on the natter, he sard that the first day he elt a bit worried, but when he felt mngry he drank water and took the nice of an orange, and after that he elt no ill effects, but in fact was much ighter ana fw . fc rentleman carried it on for three weeks, ■eeause his wife had been ordered to a r 'IS f i. IID ! B l' ° f wWch » «"** ier, and he ke R t her company so that he should not feel it too hard He poke with appreciation of the good he ad[experienced from the experiment of tarvation, which shows that it is pos ible to put on weight from wrong feed ag. Many women who are over tired md constantly on their feet, often be ome upweildy, whereas if they would >rocure some simpje book on the subject IUE? **? ]■!, a PP ,ica «°n to fat pro™iT^ an £i 0 v 0W the Erections, thev «mld be both healthier and much haphefajbyes, miserable, would lack one übject for stupid laughter.