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Title: Diet and Health
With Key to the Calories

Author: Lulu Hunt Peters

Release Date: February 15, 2005 [EBook #15069]

Language: English

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Diet and Health

_With_

Key to the Calories

By
Lulu Hunt Peters, A.B., M.D.
Ex-Chairman, Public Health Committee
California Federation of Women's Clubs
Los Angeles District

Chicago
The Reilly and Lee Co.

1918

Dedicated
by permission to

Herbert Hoover

Illustrated by
The Author's Small Nephew

Dawson Hunt Perkins
The little rascal

Read This First

I am sorry I cannot devise a key by which to read this book, as well as
a Key to the Calories, for sometimes you are to read the title headings
and side explanations before the text. Other times you are supposed to
read the text and then the headings. It really does not matter much as
long as you read them both. Be sure to do that. They are clever. _I
wrote them myself_.

I have been accused of trying to catch you coming and going, because I
have included in my book the right methods of gaining weight, as well as
those for losing weight. But this is not the reason--though I don't
object to doing that little thing--the reason is that the lack of
knowledge of foods is the foundation for both overweight and
underweight.

I did want my publishers to get this out in a cheaper edition, thinking
that more people could have it, and thus it would be doing more good;
but they have convinced me that that idea was a false claim of my mortal
mind, and that the more you paid for it, the more you would appreciate
it. I have received many times, and without grumbling on my part, ten
dollars for the same advice given in my office. Perhaps on this line of
reasoning we should have ten dollars for the book. Those of you who
think so may send the balance on through my publishers.

L.H.P.

Los Angeles, California
June, 1918

CONTENTS

1 Preliminary