Many obesity cures are in existence, and have had considerable vogue from time to time. Anti-fat remedies are dangerous, as they lower the vitality of the system and render it liable to be attacked by disease. All such remedies act by decreasing the appetite and causing impairment of the digestion. The rational method is to limit both the amount of food and the liquid to be taken, to increase oxidation by deep breathing and exercise. By restricting the carbohydrates and fats consumed the body calls on that stored in the tissues. In obesity, unless there is an underlying condition of disease, the amount of water should be limited while reducing and none should be drunk with the meals. Soup, milk, and all juicy fruits and all foods made from cereals should be taken sparingly; sugar must usually be forbidden and fat in the food limited to a little butter. One need not starve under this treatment for the diet may be varied enough to prevent monotony even though restricted. Fresh green vegetables, fruit, and lean meat should form the main ingredients of the diet, but if gastric disturbances arise the diet must be varied to correct them. Meat should be eaten but once a day. Extremes in diet should be strictly avoided; a sudden restriction of diet produces changes in the blood which may do harm. For this reason the amount of food taken should be gradually but steadily reduced and one article after another eliminated until the system becomes accustomed to the reduction. _Thorough elimination must be secured through exercise and deep breathing._ All alcoholic liquors must be omitted. _All diets for obesity must be prescribed for the individual condition. A diet suited to one person may be entirely unsuited to another. For this reason, and because of the danger of one following a diet which may be unsuited to the condition, diets for obesity are not given here._ _Exercise and deep breathing must constitute an appreciable part of reduction methods to cause a combustion of the fat liberated._ These are the natural, scientific means of reduction. _If one reduces by diet alone the excess of fat may not come from the part desired._ One is likely to show the results first in the face and neck. One should exercise the parts desired to be reduced so as to oxidize the fat stored about these particular tissues. A large number of the obese are afflicted with rheumatism, sluggish livers, sluggish action of the intestines, and weak nerves, and the diet must be governed accordingly. The regulation of food for reduction of flesh must also be governed by age, sex, by the manner of breathing, and by the amount of daily exercise. The food must be regulated in accordance with the quantity of carbohydrates and fats daily consumed in heat and energy.