u are much
overweight. There are two general stages of fatty heart. In the first
stage the heart is surrounded by a blanket of fat, and it also
penetrates between the muscles. Later, if it goes on too long, the heart
muscle itself degenerates to fat, then--

[Sidenote: _Good-night!_]

Shakespeare warns you to make thy body less, hence thy grace more; leave
gormandizing, and know that the grave doth gape for thee thrice wider
than for other men.

_Second Order_

[Sidenote: _Shrink Your Stomach_]

Your stomach, long used to an excess of food for your needs--it may not
be a large amount--but still, I repeat, being used to an excess of food
for your needs, your stomach must be disciplined. It is undoubtedly
distended, as it should not be.

[Sidenote: _Shrink Your Stomach_]

A good way to show it that you are master is to fast for at least one
day--drink nothing but pure water, hot or cold, as you prefer. It will
protest vociferously and will tell all its friends, the different organs
of your body, how you are persecuting it, and they will join the league
against you and decide they will oust you from your position, and you
will feel like--but don't mind it; it will soon know that you mean
business, and, much chastened and considerably contracted, will take the
next day a very small amount of food very gratefully.

[Sidenote: _Shrink Your Stomach_]

If you do not want to be so severe with it you can allow it five glasses
of hot or cold skim milk or buttermilk, one every three hours, say, at
10,1,4,7, and 10 o'clock. One glass is 80 calories, five equal 400
calories, which is not so much.

[Sidenote: _Or Mashed_]

The baked potato and glass of skim milk diet, three times a day one day
a week, which has its devotees, depends upon its low caloric content for
its results. There is no magic in it, no yeast business which reduces.
This is most wholesome, however, for potatoes contain a large amount of
the potassium salts, which tend to counteract the effects of uric acid,
and thus are good for the gouty type.

[Sidenote: _Mono-Diets_]

The beefsteak, the milk, and the fruit diets are also good. One can gain
as well as lose on the milk diet, all depending on number of calories
consumed, and it is an excellent method for both. The beefsteak diet is
beneficial for a short time, but too much protein over a long period has
been shown to be harmful. An exclusive fruit diet is excellent for
reduction.

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