Since excess carbohydrate is deposited as fat, you might think it would be forbidden in a reducing diet. All foods, however, can be converted into body fat. And you need a certain amount of carbohydrate because fat is not properly consumed in its absence.
Fat is only half-burned unless there is carbohydrate present to fan it [...]

Mathematics is a beautiful science, if you happen to like it. But it has discouraged a lot of us from making an effort at girth control. It has been bruited about that “going on a diet” involves careful calculations in trigonometry, algebra, differential calculus and celestial navigation.
Be assured that all these scare stories are false. [...]

Theoretically, you could get adequate protein from a strictly vegetarian diet, but practically it would be extremely difficult. For one thing, it would require the eating of huge amounts of food. Most vegetarian diets make excellent use of eggs, milk, and cheese, and to that extent are only partly vegetarian.
Animal proteins are stressed in your [...]

It is a wonderful feeling to realize that if you lie flat on your back all day and watch the world go by, your body burns up some 1,700 calories worth of energy just to keep alive. Add to this another 800 calories for the energy expended in sitting, walking, playing, and washing dishes or [...]

Coffee and tea can never make you fat. Your reducing diet allows you to consume them, if you wish, until you splash when you walk. But note that this sky’s-the-limit attitude applies only to black coffee or clear tea.
Drunk in this form, these inspiring infusions rate a flat zero for calories. Add cream and sugar, [...]

Naturally you can’t eat a diet of pure protein, although protein can be considered the one indispensable food since fractions of it can be converted into fat and carbohydrate, but not vice versa.
You can see why the new slimming diets emphasize protein, because liberal allowances can be expected to cause greater loss of weight [...]

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