haps you had
better substitute _were_ for _are_.

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Maintenance Diet and Conclusions

[Illustration: Maintenance Diet 1000 C. over 1000 C. under]

[Sidenote: _1st Circle_]

THE HEAVY circle represents the amount of daily food (number of
calories) which will maintain you at present weight. It may be your
weight is too much or too little, but this is your maintenance diet for
that weight.

[Sidenote: _2nd Circle_]

THE SECOND circle represents a daily diet containing more than necessary
for maintenance; for example, let us say 1000 calories more. This 1000
calories of food is equivalent to approximately 4 ounces of fat
[1000/255 (1 oz. fat = 255 C.)]; 4 ounces of fat daily equals 8 pounds a
month which will be added to your weight, and, if not needed by the
system, will deposit itself as excess fat.

Or the toxins arising from the unnecessary food will irritate the blood
vessels, causing arterio-sclerosis (hardening of the arteries), which in
turn may cause kidney disease, heart disease, or apoplexy (rupture of
artery in the brain), and maybe death before your time.

On the other hand, if you are underweight and the added nourishment is
gradually worked up to, it will improve the health and cause a gain of
so much (theoretically, and in reality if kept up long enough).

[Sidenote: _3d Circle_]

THE THIRD circle represents a diet containing less than the maintenance;
again, for example, say 1000 calories less. Here the 1000 calories must
be taken from the body tissue, and fat is the first to go, for fat is
virtually dead tissue.

This 4 ounces of fat daily which will be supplied by your body equals in
six months 48 pounds.

There are in America hundreds of thousands of overweight individuals;
not all so much overweight as this, but some considerably more so. If
these individuals will save 1000 calories of food daily by using their
stored fat, think what it would mean at this time.

[Sidenote: _Savings_]

Not only an immense saving of food to be sent to our soldiers and allies
and the starving civilians, and of money which could be used for Liberty
Bonds, the Red Cross, and other war relief work, but a great saving and
a great increase in power; for there is no doubt that by reducing as
slowly and scientifically as I have directed, efficiency and health will
be increased one hundred fold.

If, as illustrated in the third circle, the 1000 calories or less is
eaten and the individual already is u