[Sidenote:  Impossible]

I have said that food, and food only, causes fat.  That gives you the cue to what you must do to get rid of it.  No anti-fat medicines unless under the supervision of your scientific, educated physician.  They are dangerous; most of them contain thyroid extract, arsenic, or mercury.  Even the vendors of these harmful compounds in their advertisements are now saying to “stop harmful drugging,” but urge you to adopt their particular delightful product, and, “without dieting or exercises, you will positively reduce,” and so forth.

No drastic purges, no violent exercises, especially at first, and not too frequent nor prolonged Turkish baths.  Epsom salts baths have little effect.  If salts are used habitually internally, they are harmful.  All of these are unscientific and unsuccessful, and the things they bring on are worse than the fat.

Now, if food is the only source of body substance, you see that you must study that question, and that is what I will give you—­some lessons on foods and their values.

[Sidenote:  Candy Cake, Pie, Rich Meats, Thick Gravy, Bread, Butter, Nuts, Ice Cream]

[Sidenote:  Whipped Cream, Candied Sweet Potatoes]

Heretofore you have known only in a dumb, despairing sort of way that all the foods you like are fattening, and all the advice you read and hear is that you must avoid them as a pestilence.  And you settle down to your joyless fatness, realizing that it is beyond human strength to do that forever, and that you would rather die young and fat, anyway, than to have nothing to eat all your life but a little meat, fish, and sloshy vegetables.  Study on, and you will find the reason your favorite foods are fattening.

But cast off your dejection. You don’t have to avoid them!

Eat what you like and grow thin?  Yes; follow me.  I know it will be an exertion, but you must persist and go through with it.  Nothing in life worth while is attained without some effort.  So begin now; it is the price of liberty.

Review

1.  Give rule for normal weight.

2.  How much excess food have you stored away?

3.  Why more important than ever to reduce?

4.  Why are fat individuals fireless cookers?

5.  Give causes of excess fat.

NOTE:  The Reviews which follow the chapters are important and the questions should be answered.  To get the full benefit, Little Book must be studied, for it is the only authorized textbook of the “Watch Your Weights.”

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Key to the Calories

Some one page the thin?  They come back here.

[Sidenote:  Don’t Skip This]

Definition to learn: 

CALORIE; symbol C.; a heat unit and food value unit; is that amount of heat necessary to raise one pound of water 4 degrees Fahrenheit.

[Sidenote:  Pronounced Kal’-o-ri]