Fat Essential to Healthy Nutrition. - Importance of Distinguishing between Solid and Liquid Fats. - On Getting Fat and Getting Thin. - On Getting Thin. - Bantingism. - Analysis of Banting-diet, Showing its Error and Advantages. - On Getting Fat. - Fat and Starch in the Nutrition of Children.

Fat Essential to Healthy Nutrition

Fat is so essential to the maintenance of healthy nutrition, that the quantity contained in the daily food cannot be reduced much below the proportions given in the "Essentials of a Normal Diet" and in the Normal-Diet Tables, without great risk of damaging the health.

When it is necessary for any special object to reduce the quantity of carbon taken in the aliments, this can more safely be done by diminishing the saccharine and amylaceous matters than the fats. (See p. 109, Bantingism.)

The importance of fat in nutrition should be studiously borne in mind by those who construct diets for the poor, for public institutions, or for the treatment of obesity, diabetes, fatty degeneration, dyspepsia, and the like.