FATTENING-UP DIETS
Although it should be sufficiently well known that fattening-up diets are anything but sensible, and contrary to the findings of modern nutritional research, they are still occasionally recommended. Lymphatic children with swollen glands and shadows on their lungs are overfed during their stay in Swiss mountain resorts to such an extent that they return home quite plump. It is not surprising that when they are back home in the lowlands and complain of excessive tiredness, show signs of some liver trouble, or even succumb to jaundice. The weight increase achieved by stuffing butter, milk and rich foods into them is no longer the accepted procedure of the nature-oriented, progressive doctor, since it has been found that there are other factors of even greater importance.
The fattening-up diet produces something like an optical illusion. Fat, heavy-bodied children somehow create the impression of being in the best of health, but that this is not always true is borne out by past experience and common knowledge. Excessive feeding usually affects the liver because the diet contains too much fat. This, in turn, leads to other metabolic disturbances which eventually have to be corrected. So forget fattening-up diets. They are not sensible. The resistance to infection is nearly always lowered after such an extreme feeding programme and, all in all, nothing good is ever gained by it.
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