"Why are fat people always complaining? asks some one who entertains the popular though erroneous notion that health is synonymous with fat. Fat people complain because they are diseased. Obesity is an abnormal condition of the system, in which the saccharine and oleaginous elements of the food are assimilated to the partial exclusion of the muscle-forming and brain-producing elements. In proof of this, it is only necessary to assert the well-known fact that excessively fat people are never strong, and seldom distinguished for mental powers or activity. Besides they are the easy prey of acute and epidemic diseases, and they are the frequent victims of gout, heart disease, and apoplexy." And yet people will persist that hogs are healthy, and their flesh fit for food, when they are confined in close pens so as to add as much as possible to their natural filthiness, and fattened to the very point of suffocation, where they are just ready to die of liver complaint. Scrofula by the pound! If people would stop to consider, it seems as if they would turn with disgust from the sickening mass of disease known as fat pork.