QUICK LURCHES MAKE FAT MEN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue I, 4 July 1896, Page 8

QUICK LURCHES MAKE FAT MEN.

Another evil result to the deadly quick lunch has come to light, and the complaint has a foundation of scientific probability. ‘ I've noticed,’ said a man, * that every person who acquires the quick lunch habit gets fat as soon as he can come under the regular influence of the system. Men who have been thin their whole lives have begun to acquire noticeable stomachs, and others with a disposition to stoutness take on flesh rapidly. It is perfectly plain to see why it happens. These dairy luncheons supply bread, bread, bread, the most fattening thing a man can eat, unless it be the cakes and pastry that supplement the bread. There is sugar in most of the bread, and it is impossible to get any one thing in these places which does not have a tendency to make a man fat. I’ve watched it in a dozen cases, and there has not been an exception. It’s all right for the thin men, but for the fat men it’s dreadful. It’s so much cheaper for a man to get fat than to keep thin. When he commences to diet and confine himself to such things as meat and salads, his luncheon costs him three or four times as much as it would if he could eat the sandwiches and the cakes, and the quality of the food is not so good. Some philanthropist ought to open a lunch place where a man can eat cheaply and still keep his figure. But I don’t see how he could make it pay.