Download or read book American Medicine, Vol. 27 written by H. Edwin Lewis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Medicine, Vol. 27: January-December, 1921 His experience and studies point out effectively that overweight constitutes a true disposition to diabetes. Accepting this as true, the prevention of diabetes must con cern itself with efforts to keep the waist line Of the average dimension. Overeating is to be considered as a diabetic hazard, and its importance should be recognized by physicians who, in turn, should emphasize the faeiito patients who do not understand that fatness possesses more than mechan ical disabilities. A general reduction in the number of overweights in the country would lessen decidedly the incidence of diabetes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.