In 100 C’s Bread, 1 slice, (W.W. the highest) 12 to 16 C’s P
In 100 C’s Cooked Cereals, 1 sm. cup, (oatmeal
highest) 10 to 18 C’s P
In 100 C’s Rice, 1 small cup 10 C’s P
In 100 C’s Macaroni, 1 small cup 15 C’s P
In 100 C’s Whole milk, 5 oz. 20 C’s P
In 100 C’s Skim and buttermilk, 10 oz. 35 C’s P
In 100 C’s Cheese, 3 heaping tbsp.  Cottage cheese 75 C’s P
In 100 C’s Eggs 1-1/3 36 C’s P
In 100 C’s Meat or fish, Very lean 2-3 oz. 50 to 75 C’s P
In 100 C’s Nuts, peanuts, almonds, walnuts.  Peanuts
the highest 10 to 20 C’s P
In 100 C’s Beans 1/3 cup average 20 C’s P
In 100 C’s Green peas 3/4 cup average 28 C’s P
In 100 C’s Corn 1/3 cup average 12 C’s P
In 100 C’s Onions 3 to 4 medium 12 C’s P
In 100 C’s Potato 1 medium 12 C’s P
In 100 C’s Tomatoes 1 lb 15 C’s P
In 100 C’s Fresh fruits:  berries, currants, rhubarb 10 C’s P
Others 2 to 5 C’s P

6

The Deluded Ones—­My Thin Friends

[Sidenote:  What!]

I am going to sandwich you in between the food calories and my fat friends, and maybe you can absorb some of them.  In the first chapter, you remember, I said I was not particularly interested in you, but I have changed my mind, and I will treat you tenderly and carefully.  I will have to preach a little bit first, but I don’t mind that; I love to reform people—­Yes, you need reforming!

The first thing many of you have to do is to learn to accept the trivial annoyances and small misfits of life as a matter of course, for to give them attention beyond their deserts is to wear the web of your life to the warp.

Elbert Hubbard never said anything better than that.  Have that reproduced in motto form and put it on your bureau, and repeat it fifty times daily.

[Sidenote:  Good Philosophy]

Adopt my philosophy.  If I have a trivial annoyance I analyze it carefully.  Was I to blame?  Yes?  All right, I am glad, because then I can see that it will not happen again, so I stop worrying.  If I am not to blame, if I could not help it in the least, well, then I don’t worry about it, for that will not help it any, and I wasn’t to blame!  If it bobs up in my mind again, I say:  “Now, look here, you annoyance, I have given you all the attention you deserve; avaunt, depart, get out!”

[Sidenote:  Simple]

Now, how is this philosophy going to help you gain?

[Sidenote:  Lost Calories]

When you worry needlessly, notice how tense your muscles are.  You are exercising them all of the time and using hundreds of calories of energy.  You raise your blood pressure, the internal secretory glands may overact (re-read what I have said about these glands in the fat people), and thus many more calories are used.  The intestinal secretions do not flow so freely, you have indigestion and do not assimilate your food, and thus hundreds more calories are lost.