Diet and Health With Key to the Calories
By Lulu Hunt Peters, A.B., M.D.

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Mayonnaise or oil, 1/2 dsp 50 C.
1 large dish tomatoes, or cauliflower,
or string beans, or carrots, or turnips
(I hate turnips--just put them
down so you can see you can have
them if you like) 25 C.
1 medium slice bread, or 1 medium
potato 100 C.
1 pat butter 100 C.
100 calories of your husband's dessert 100 C.
Water 00 C.
1 cup cereal coffee, clear, practically 00 C.
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Total 700 C.


SUMMARY

Breakfast 75 C.
Luncheon including salad 375 C.
Dinner 700 C.
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1150 C.

That leaves me 50 more calories to total 1200, to take before retiring
if I am hungry. You should leave this 50 calories to take before
retiring, because if you are hungry you will find it very difficult to
go to sleep.

A small cup of hot skimmed milk tends to be a sedative. Hunger, like
cold feet, is hard to go to sleep on.

[Sidenote: _For Both Sexes_]

_If there is one thing more important than another, it is thorough
mastication._

[Sidenote: _Sometimes I Take More Than 100 Calories of My Husband's
Dessert. I Love Fat Men, But I Don't Want to Be Married to 'Em_]

This applies to the thin as well as to the fat, and to the child as well
as to the adult. Take a moderate mouthful and rassel with it until it is
automatically swallowed. Chew until it is all gone before you put any
more in your mouth. There is no better way of jollying yourself into
thinking that you have had all you want than this Fletcherizing habit,
and it takes the same time to consume one-half the amount of food you
have been in the habit of eating.

I will allow you all the water you want, in reason; in fact, I advise it

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