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Show Mittle something to retire on a slice of fruit cake bears 12" n ories while an iced two lavM cake will hold 345 calories in ,ue average serving. Pie ;s a tlle favorite. It is good, it is eaeat eat, and can be held in thP i,' and is chuck full of nourishm One sixth average pie of the ft"1 variety has 350 calories. Even n crusted custard or pumpkin has about the same number aJlt a dab of whipped cream is on ! a hundred or more calories res,,! ' Lemon meringue tops the list w l 475 of these little nuisances It certainly is more fun to n, the pounds on than to take th off. But we owe it to our f,,i,!ni health to do the latter e Food, Diet, Obesity Kindred Subjects From time to time articles appear ap-pear on food, diet, the problem of obesity and kindred subjects. The mortality rate among the overweight over-weight has been keenly observed by insurance companies for many years. A wealth of accurate sta- calories. One almond or one-half of a pecan costs eight calories and cashews and peanuts are one calorie cal-orie behind. A plain unvarnished caramel holds 35 calories and a chocolate nut one totals 60. The baked desserts are bell ringers too and are found easily in the ice box or cake box, and may be consumed while one is absentmindedly looking for some KX OWf XM JK-X ifc much has been said about the associated as-sociated diseases such as diabetes mellitus, arteriosclerosis, and heart disease. The heavy carbohydrates and the fats are far more nourishing than some other foods. It might be of interest to examine what certain cer-tain combinations will produce when the finished product is consumed. con-sumed. Whole milk has 20 calories per ounce. If it is changed to chocolate choco-late milk, 23 calories per ounce results. re-sults. One cream puff contains 450 calories. The adult requires approximately ap-proximately 10 calories per pound of body weight for his basal requirements. re-quirements. A 160 pound individual individ-ual would require 1600 calories. One cream puff would give him one-fourth of this basic requisite. Two tablespoonfuls of peanut butter on bread would give 375 calories, while a small chocolate nut sundae averages 400 calories. Potato chips have 10 calories each. A cup of buttered pop corn, 100 |