The Pedestrian's Record

the pedestrian's record. 51 should take, and those he must beware of. Plethora and obesity are deviations from a healthy state, and consequently are conditionsthat the pedestrian must reduce, and this in great measure can be effected by abstaining from those foods containing sugar and starch, and alcoholic liquids; i.e., if we have the means at our disposal for the production of fat, we must necessarily know how to prevent its accumulation by denying ourselves that food which is capable of forming it. The remedy usually presenting itself is partial starvation, but such a system, although it may to an extent bring about the desired end, will, as experience proves, in nine cases out of ten, injuriously affect those attempting it. The investigations of chemists assist us in our research, for they have dis­ covered that certain foods are fertile in fat-generating products, whereas in others they only sparingly exist. Therefore common sense suggests the propriety of our selection. To prove that certain foods contain fat-generating products, it will be necessary first to consider of what compounds fat consists, and after­ wards the composition of those foods which cause its development. Fat is a chemical mixture in variable proportions of three compounds, viz., stearine, oleine, and margarine, in association with a sweet principle named glycerine, and when resolved into its ultimate elements, contains— Carbon ... Hydrogen Oxygen 79-98 11-148 9-256 Total 100-000 e 2