For obesity, medicine is no treatment. Reducing one’s diet is also undertaken by many, especially by ladies to keep slim. But, if that is accompanied by a consciousness of Nature-cure principles and practices, the same could be an effective treatment of obesity. One must understand that the oxidation of waste materials in the body is necessary to reduce fat. Hence a scientific course of fast, exercise and baths has to be taken up for complete cure of obesity.

After a fast for seven days, taking only orange juice and water, one should switch over to an all-fruit diet for ten days or so. This will reduce the load on the stomach with little to digest and allow it sufficient rest to enable the organs to oxidise the accumulated wastes. During this period regular enema should be used to keep the bowels clear. All other activities advised, such as hip-bath, hot-and-cold bath and in some cases, even hot foot bath should be taken regularly and daily, each alternatively or so. In exercises, yoga should be followed, in addition to walks. Acid-forming foods should be avoided. No refined flour or rice, lentils or fats, alcohols, beverages, tea or coffee. Tea, if at all taken, should be, not boiled, but only dipped in boiled water to reduce its nicotine effect. Alkaline foods, like wholesome wheat, unpolished rice, vegetables, salads, steam-cooked foods and fruit should be taken in light quantities. A course of sprouted grain or wheat grass can be profitably followed. No water be taken with meals, only half-an-hour earlier and three hours after the meals. This should be followed as normal diet after the fasts to permanently get rid of obesity.