pudding, arrowroot, sago, cream cakes, meringues, custards, sweetmeats, honey, nuts, bananas, sweet grapes, pastry, ice cream.
Milk or cream.
Supper (about 7 P. M.).
Bread and butter, or bread and milk, with preserves, jams, or syrup, oatmeal porridge. Mush with milk or molasses. Cold bacon or mutton.
Milk sweetened or plain. Tea with cream and sugar.
Every person must watch and weigh himself, and
thus learn what articles of diet are in his individual
case most fattening. Mr. Banting found from his
experience that to him sugar was the most productive
of fat. If he ate five ounces of it, he increased
one pound! Dr. Stark, likewise speaking from his
own knowledge, declares in favor of suet as that which
fleshed him most rapidly. Another high authority
says that milk, especially when taken fresh and from
an Alderney cow, is superior to anything else. If one
can drink three or four pints of it a day, an increase
in weight is as certain, and perhaps more certain, than
by swallowing cod-liver oil. Starch in the form of
arrowroot, sago, tapioca, or farina, is equally lauded
by others.
To be avoided on the other hand are: pickles, vinegars, highly spiced food, sour wines or fruits, acid vegetables.
To decrease in size a diet chiefly animal is required;
