Diet and health : with key to the calories . when I was a child I was always being Matenmityconsoled by being told that I would outgrowit, and that when I matured I would havesome shape. Never can I tell patheticallywhen I was married I weighed only one ^ Long^hundred eighteen, and look at me now. No, LongI was a delicate sHp of one hundred and sixty- BaUkfive when I was taken. I never will tell you how much I haveweighed, I am so thoroughly ashamed of it,but my normal weight is one hundred and fiftypounds, and at one time there was seventy. 14 DIET AND HEALTH pounds more of me than ther
Diet and health : with key to the calories . when I was a child I was always being Matenmityconsoled by being told that I would outgrowit, and that when I matured I would havesome shape. Never can I tell patheticallywhen I was married I weighed only one ^ Long^hundred eighteen, and look at me now. No, LongI was a delicate sHp of one hundred and sixty- BaUkfive when I was taken. I never will tell you how much I haveweighed, I am so thoroughly ashamed of it,but my normal weight is one hundred and fiftypounds, and at one time there was seventy. 14 DIET AND HEALTH pounds more of me than there is now, or hasbeen smce I knew how to control it. I wasnot so shameless as that very long, and as Ilook back upon that short period I feel likerefunding the comfortable salary received assuperintendent of an hospital; for I know Iwas only sixty-five per cent efficient, for effi-ciency decreases in direct proportion as excessweight increases. Everybody knows it. Mrs. SheesasUe Me Answering The Meeting Is Now Open forDiscussion Jolly Mrs. Sheesasite has the floor andwants some questions answered. You knowMrs. Sheesasite; her husband recently boughther a pair of freight scales. Why is it, Doctor, that thin people caneat so much more than fat people and stillnot gain? First: Thin people are usually more ac-tive than fat people and use up their food. Second: Thin people have been proved toradiate fifty per cent more heat per poundthan fat people; in other words, fat peopleare regular fireless cookers! They hold theheat in, it cannot get out t
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