Evening star. [volume], April 27, 1947, Page 14, Image 93

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ROME, 34 a.d. — Among the visitors to the
court of Emperor Tiberius today was a glass
blower who presented His Majesty with an un
breakable, flameproof glass cup. In demon
strating its unusual qualities, the glass blower
dashed the cup to the floor with such vigor that
he created a large dent in the transparent vessel.
Before the Emperor's astonished eyes he there
upon picked it up and, with a small hammer,
tapped it back into its original shape.
Tiberius, while pleased with the gift, has or
dered the glass blower beheaded lest the new
materia), because of its extraordinary durability,
render gold and silver valueless.
— Source: Pliny the Elder.
ARE YOU TOO FAT?
Continued from page eleven
uals. Cousin Charles, my victuals."
Most fat people feel the same way
as Miss Norton about victuals. A
doctor who hands out printed diet
lists and depends on the will power
of the patients often gets no resul· s,
or merely temporary loss of weight.
The unhappy patient knows it
is had for hie health to over
eat; he feele ungainly and in
ferior. He can't get clothes to fit
him; he doesn't feel well and can't
move about freely. Yet he can't resist
eating. Why? Understanding the fat
person's motives for eating, not only
the motives he gives but some of the
symbolic meanings of his explana
tions, is important, says Dr. Cutting.
"The successful reduction of weight
depends on the degree to which the
psychological factors are understood
by tht patient and utilized in the
treatment by the doctor."
ChooM the Right Dodos
Perhaps most overweight persons
are in need of psychological rather
than medical help. They should
choose a doctor who understands
psychology, who believes in the new
principles of psychosomatic medi
cine, the theory that "a very fair
proportion of bodily disturbances is
due to the moods, the emotions of
the individual, to the ideas he builds
up about himself regarding his
body." The combination of mental
distress and its influences upon the
body is what psychosomatic medi
cine uses as a basis for treatment.
Such a doctor will not give the
patient a diet slip, after he makes
certain that no organic reason for the
overweight exists. He will try to find
out what subconscious meaning food
has for the patient.
One doctor treating an overweight
woman learned that her married life
was rendered miserable by a hus
band who constantly made jibes in
public about her weight. The doctor
found that she was getting pleasure
from food to take the place of the
satisfactions she should be finding in
marriage. She felt great hostility
toward her husband and her over
weight was "in part, a sort of back
handed way" of punishing him, of
"getting even." The doctor called
in the husband and discussed the
motives for his constant sadistic
derision. The marriage was estab
lished on better grounds; the wife
got rid of her hostile feeling toward
her husband, and lost weight.
To solve problems of this type,
many physicians are using the
Rorschach test, a psychiatric de
vice consisting of looking at ink
blots and deciding what they resem
ble. This is a means of digging
out the secret reasons behind a fat
person's overeating.
Overeating has many deep, un
known meanings. Due* it mean
that the person subeon&Hously
wants everything for himself?
That he will give others nothing?
Does a man overeat because his
mother made him overeat in an
excess of love when he was a child?
Does a poor woman who can afford
no pleasures of any other kind use
food as her only source of well-being?
If a bored, frustrated housewife got
out of her home and into interesting
work or cultural hobbies would she
cease her aimless nibbling?
Psychologists tell us that very few
of our habits (and overeating is a
habit) can be changed merely by
"setting one's teeth and assuming a
masterful posture." In many cases
they say "the situation is made
worse by such tactics." But making
a sensible effort, setting up a check
list of sane reducing methods, can be
helpful.
Set Up a Check List
Here are the things most to be
remembered :
Be compliant to the reducing
situation; not aggressive. Take a
drink of water instead of a snack;
eat tiny frequent meals of non
fattening food when you are tired;
take vitamins.
Reduce only under the care of a
physician ; eat mostly protein fo'-'ds
— lean meats, fish, eggs, cheese and
others; for dessert eat fruit low in
sugar, or gelatin.
Never take thyroid or benzedrine
except under the instructions of a
physician; re-educate your appetite
instead of counting cntories; try to
find out what meaning food has for
you; if food means extraordinary
pleasure, find some other means of
enjoyment in your life; broaden your
interests; cultivate hobbies; get a
new mental picture of yourself.
That's the sort of program doctors
and psychologists tell us will slough
off those unwanted, unhealthful and
unbeautil'ul pounds. The End
"Well, next Wednesday morning, same time?"