m are thinking to themselves: "I believe I'd
like that man."

The Fat Man's Habits

"Never hurry and never worry" are the unconscious standards underlying
many of the reactions of this type. If you will compile a list of the
habits of any fat person you will find that they are mostly the
outgrowths of one or both of these motives.

Won't Speed Up

You would have a hard time getting an Alimentive to follow out any
protracted line of action calling for strenuosity, speed or high
tension. He will get as much done as the strenuous man when their
mentalities are equal--and often more. The fat person keeps going in a
straight line, with uniform and uninterrupted effort, and does not have
the blow-outs common to more fidgety people. But hard, fast labor is not
in his line.

Loves Comedy

All forms of mental depression are foreign to fat people as long as
they are in normal health. We have known a fat husband and wife to be
ejected for rent and spend the evening at the movies laughing like
four-year-olds at Charlie Chaplin or a Mack Sennett comedy. You have
sometimes seen fat people whose financial condition was pretty serious
and wondered how they could be so cheerful.

Inclined to Indolence

Fat people's habits, being built around their points of strength and
weakness, are necessarily of two kinds--the desirable and the
undesirable.

The worst habits of this type are those inevitable to the ease-loving
and the immature-minded.

Indolence is one of his most undesirable traits and costs the Alimentive
dear.

In this country where energy, push and lightning-like efficiency are at
a premium only the fat man of brains can hope to keep up.

The inertia caused by his digestive processes is so great that it is
almost insurmountable. The heavy, lazy feeling you have after a large
meal is with the fat man interminably because his organism is constantly
in the process of digesting large amounts of food.

Likes Warm Rooms

Love of comfort--especially such things as warm rooms and soft
beds--is so deeply imbedded in the fiber of this type that he has ever
to face a fight with himself which the rest of us do not encounter. This
sometimes leads the excessively corpulent person to relax into laziness
and slovenliness. An obese individual sometimes surprises us, however,
by his ambition and immaculateness.

But such a man or woman almost always combines decided mental tendencies
with his alimentiveness.

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