Bout 11
2 Key to the Calories 23
3 Review and More Definitions 30
4 More Keys and More Calories 37
5 Vegetarianism vs. Meat Eating 54
6 The Deluded Ones--My Thin Friends 59
7 Exercise 69
8 At Last! How to Reduce 77
9 Autobiographical 88
10 Testimonials 96
11 An Apology and Some Amendments 98
12 Maintenance Diet and Conclusions 102
13 Three Years Later 106

Diet and Health

1

Preliminary Bout

_Rule to Find Ideal Adult Net Weight_

Multiply number of inches over 5 ft. in height by 5-1/2; add 110. For
example: Height 5 ft. 7 in. without shoes.

7 x 5-1/2 = 38-1/2
+ 110
-------
Ideal weight 148-1/2

If under 5 ft. multiply number of inches under 5 ft. by 5-1/2 and
subtract from 110.

_Are You Thin and Do You Want to Gain?_

[Sidenote: _Don't Read This_]

Skip this chapter. It will not interest you in the least. I will come to
you later. I am not particularly interested in you anyway, for I cannot
get your point of view. How any one can want to be anything but thin is
beyond my intelligence. However, knowing that there are such deluded
individuals, I have been constrained to give you advice. You won't find
it spontaneous nor from the heart, but if you follow my directions I
will guarantee that you will gain; providing, of course, you have no
organic trouble; and the chances are that by giving proper attention to
your diet you will gain anyway, and maybe in passing lose your trouble.
Who knows?

[Sidenote: _Bad Business_]

In war time it is a crime to hoard food, and fines and imprisonment have
followed the expose of such practices. Yet there are hundreds of
thousands of individuals all over America who are hoarding food, and
that one of the most precious of all foods! _They have vast amounts of
this valuable commodity stored away in their own anatomy_.

[Illustration: contents noted]

Now fat individuals have always been considered a joke, but you are a
joke no longer. Instead of being looked upon with friendly tolerance and
amusement, you are now viewed with distrust, suspicion, and even
aversion! How dare you hoard fat when our nation needs it? You don't
dare to any longer. You never wanted to be fat anyway, but you did not
know how to reduce, and it is proverbial how l