Diet and Health
Book Description
Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters' book Diet and Health: With Key to the Calories was extremely popular because most people found it witty and entertaining, so it remained on the non-fiction bestseller lists from 1922 to 1926. In the book, Dr. Hunt introduced a few new exercise routines and the concept of a calorie to American Women so thoroughly that her book even provides instruction on the words pronunciati...
MoreDr. Lulu Hunt Peters' book Diet and Health: With Key to the Calories was extremely popular because most people found it witty and entertaining, so it remained on the non-fiction bestseller lists from 1922 to 1926. In the book, Dr. Hunt introduced a few new exercise routines and the concept of a calorie to American Women so thoroughly that her book even provides instruction on the words pronunciation.
She preaches that women can eat whatever they want as long as a strict diet of 1,200 calories a day in maintained, in order to keep the ideal weight that her system suggests (similar to BMI). She explains in her book that "hereafter you are going to eat calories of food. Instead of saying one slice of bread, or a piece of pie, you will say 100 calories of bread, 350 calories of pie" and shows women how to loose weight with a formula. She captivated her readers by letting them know that she knew the shame in being fat (having once weighed 200 lbs), and the sacrifice that dieting entailed, first hand. In order to be thin, women must resist temptations, which she explains with several biblical references. Her book simply spread the notion that counting calories was the solution to the message that the fashion industry (Vogue, Chanel, etc.) was implying: being fat was no longer in style, through the design of their clothing. The book was written with the mindset that all women wanted to loose weight, because being thin, to her, was an issue of self-esteem. According to Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters, who lost 50-70 lbs with her diet regimen, dieting meant being beautiful, and being in total control of the self, so she saw people who did not have control over their weight as morally distraught.
She also mentions other reasons, beyond self-improvement, that made her diet even more appealing. For instance, she says that women who count their calories will be able to leave the left over rations for children during the war. Because during World War I rations were a regular part of life her diet would make it all the more easier. She stated, "that for every pang of hunger we feel we can have a double joy, that of knowing we are saving worse pangs in some little children, and that of knowing that for every pang we feel we loose a pound." The diet would also help out deter food shortages; women would be showing patriotism and improving themselves at the same time.
CONTENTS
1 Preliminary Bout
2 Key to the Calories
3 Review and More Definitions
4 More Keys and More Calories
5 Vegetarianism vs. Meat Eating
6 The Deluded Ones-My Thin Friends
7 Exercise
8 At Last! How to Reduce
9 Autobiographical
10 Testimonials
11 An Apology and Some Amendments
12 Maintenance Diet and Conclusions
13 Three Years Later
The Authorized Diet and Health (Annotated) for Kindle Edition offers reader special Kindle enabled features, including interactive table of contents.Easy to use table of contents take you right to the chapter and verse you are looking for
Publisher | |
Binding | Kindle Edition (3 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
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# of Pages | 65 |
ISBN-10 | B006K4YKLK |
Publication Date | 12/08/2011 |
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