Commentators were keen to point out that proper warmth was generated within the body rather than by the addition of extra layers of clothing. For those who could afford it, the best way to feel comfortable in winter was to eat well.
On 7th December 1894 the paper Young Woman advised,
"We should make a difference in our winter food as compared with our summer food, by taking an adequate amount of fat, starch and sugar amongst the other items of our diet; and, of those things, we must hold that the fat be the most important of all. It is a truism to say that without fat, our nutrition cannot be accomplished.... [You] may take more butter, more milk, and more fat in the shape of butcher's meat, increasing it little by little with perfect safety and with great advantage. ... Generous living then, is the first rule for those who would keep warm in winter, and a necessary part of that generous dietary is fat."
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