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 [...]

Nobody has ever seen a calorie. But calories are agonizingly visible when they settle down on you in the wrong places.
It may seem strange that a thing which has no physical existence can make you fat. A square inch has no flavor and neither has a calorie. You can’t touch a calorie any more [...]

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 [...]

When it comes to weight loss, you should never take someone else’s advice. One reason behind this is that everyone’s weight loss adventure is different. There are people who never reach their weight loss goals, and then there are people who not only conquer their food intake successfully but also lose weight and become slim. [...]