Show t Diet and Health I Aun H Hunt nt P Peter MJ 1 r o 0 1 an Key Catoni pr es I THE SMALL APPETITE MYTH The story is told old of an Irishman who went to a a. dealer in automobiles automo automo- biles bUes stating that he be wanted to get a car for his wife The dealer trying to get some line Une on the style of car he wanted InquIred Long body Gosh no he exploded built like a tub but what's her shape got to do with it It After three days on calories and one day on a little more you are not so BO tubular as you were I know and you feel per cent better already Am I right The other day I 1 said that there might be some light eaters among the corpulent fraternity tra but that I 1 had them It Is true tru that there are some fome of ot them who apparently apparently eat moderately at the Uie table table table- but what amounts they store away between meals meal Sometimes h. h It Is fruit out but ut more often it Is candy or nuts or Ice cream ream sodas etc Many people have the Idea that fruit has haa no food value and they ca eat cat freely of ot It under that delusion This delusion can be traced to many popular lay writers who may write wondrously on their own themes but they cant can't keep their pens off oft dietetics of which they know nothing apparently Everybody's Everybody's Every Every- body's doing It and sending broadcast broadcast broadcast broad broad- cast statements which are recto One popular writer whose title ti titie title ti- ti tle tie of d doctor even Is D D. D D. and whose philosophy Is Inspiring has hasan hasan hasan an article In a l popular magazine In which he states that oranges ha have va vano no no spec special food value aside from their I Why my dear doctor one large food orange has exactly the same SamO value In energy energy or fuel as an ordinary ordinary ordinary nary slice of the staff of ot life Ufe Once when I was reckoning the calorie value of ot the diet of ot a woman of Los Angeles who was overweight I had to acknowledge that phe he was wasa a light eater as she had told me It lt came to 2000 calories which was Just the amount that I judged a woman of ot her activities needed to keep her normal Still skeptical I inquired What else do you eat Nothing doctor she assured meNo meNo me No candy no ice cream sodas No doctor I eat cat nothing between meals really I looked at her puzzled Finally I said sternly Something goes Into your besides what you have told me What is it Well V ell I do take the Juice of or sl six or eight oranges during the day to help my constipation but there Is la no rood food value in oranges oranges' So ho It was that she had added BOO or calories a day to her diet Five hundred calories of ot any food rood more than the system needs will I add to your weight 8 1 of a pound a day or 45 46 pounds a year Can yo you loii see how Important the knowledge of ot the fuel or caloric values of ot food tood Is Do Do- you know anything about calories the fuel units No You supposed the calory calory calory cal cal- ory theory was exploded Well It In the first place I there is no calory theory any it nore ore than there Is a a. yard ard theory or a bushel theory The explosion of ot calories Is another another another an an- other piece of Information mis-Information put Into circulation by lay writers who know nothing of ot scientific dietetics nor of what calories really are We Ve are going to teach you something something something some some- thing about those calories painlessly pain pain- lessly But meanwhile follow fonow yesterdays yesterday's yesterdays yesterday's yesterdays yesterday's yes yes- menu Copyright George Matthew Adams U My My Most sing Ring Moment I |