ce diet. Have a fairly balanced diet, some
fat, some carbohydrates, some protein, and a good amount of green
vegetables and fruit. _Have 200-300 C's of protein._

Fourth: Masticate every morsel with such thoroughness that it is
automatically swallowed.

Fifth: Keep up your activities--Red Cross and other relief work.

Sixth: Remember that you will feel good in your little heart when you
resist temptation to overeat, and when you don't, you won't feel good
anywhere.

Seventh: Some vigorous exercise every day.

[Sidenote: _There Is Life Substance and Intelligence in Chocolate
Creams!_]

NOTE: If there comes a time when you think you will die unless you have
some chocolate creams, go on a c.c. debauch. I do, occasionally, and
will eat as many as ten or so; but I take them before dinner, then me
for the balance of my dinner--

1 bowl of clear soup 25 C.
1 cracker 25 C.
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Total 50 C.

And thus, you see, every supposed pleasure in sin (eating) will furnish
more than its equivalent of pain (dieting) until belief in material life
(chocolate creams) is destroyed.

_Review_

1. Describe your stomach.

2. If there is one thing more important than another, what is it?

3. Repeat the five orders in chapter 8.

4. Repeat the warnings.

5. Work the following example:

X gains 25 pounds during the year.
How many calories has he averaged
daily over his maintenance diet?

KEY:

25 lbs. fat = 400 oz. fat.
1 oz. fat represents 275 C. food consumed.
400 oz. = 400 x 275, or 110,000 C.
110,000 / 365 = 301 C.
_Answer_. X has eaten 301 C. per day more
than necessary.

6. How many calories have you averaged daily over your maintenance diet?
And what could you have left off your menu and kept from gaining all
that weight?

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Testimonials

[Sidenote: _From the Field_]

After you have reduced or gained, let me share your joys. Write me a
little note. You need not sign your name if you don't want to. I
anticipate the following:

DEAR DOCTOR:

I am so grateful to you, Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters, for what you have done
for me. After reading your book, "Diet and Health, with Key to the
Calories" my chronic case of meanness--I mean leanness--was absolutely
cured. My weight, which was ... now is ..