Show Daily Health Service By DR DU MORRIS I EIN Sitting quietly and in your chair doing nothing you use about calones cal cal- ones an hour This is ii about the amount of energy that you OU set get from froman an o ounce nce of oC sugar or starch or less than half hal an ounce of fat fal The moment you begin work you ou use up more energy but comparative comparatively ly Iy not so much more so o that it does not require a great deal of food to cause an m excess in body weight weiCht We get our calories from food tood A Acup Acup Acup cup of ot clear hot coffee will furnish through its hi high h temperature about 10 calories to the bod body The addition of two tablespoons of thick cream I and one lump of oC sugar will raise the value of ot that cup of or coffee to about iSO 50 caloric calorie For FOT this reason renson iced coffee which is frequently drunk in ill larger quantities quan titles titIe and with more cream and sugar is likely to be more heating and fattening fattening fattening fat fat- than pl lin hot coffee coHee O 0 9 0 Most ever everybody b dy now knows that greens cens constitute a good reducing food chiefly because the they provide bulk and md food value without many calories A large serving of or lettuce with a little vinegar and with grated cheese to the amount of ot about a one-inch one cube will not exceed calories The moment oil is put on this lettuce the calory value of the salad leaps tremendously tre tre- tre The way to reduce is to find bind out through study how many calories you ou spend a day and then to eat calories a day less than you spend This will reduce your our weight about one pound a week S 0 If you ou eat GOO calories a da day more than you ou spend your weight will gain one pound a week If It you find that your our weight is not being reduced following the reduction of calories you ou might take off of a few more calories but the elimination n of the foods should be from the sugars and luxury foods and not from milk fruit and fresh vegetables which are import important nt for mineral and vitamin values As A we get et older our bod body weight tends to decrease At the same time actions that go on in our bodies become become become be be- come slower and the amount of ot energy energy en en- ergy used up becomes less For this reason older people require much less food than do the young oung Eighteen hundred calories a day should cover the ener energy requirements of or most men of or 70 and 1600 a day the energy requirements of oC men of 80 This is about the same energy requirement requirement re reo re- re that is needed by a child around six years of or age Children need aced more calories in proportion proportion pro pro- portion to their body weight because the they require food not only for lor the energy needs of oC the body but also for lor growth |