Diet And Health: With Key To The Calories
Diet And Health: With Key To The Calories
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Outdated, but not too bad,
I mostly read this for fun, but it’s actually not the worst diet book I’ve ever seen.
Peters’ approach is a little weird–dividing foods into 100-calorie portions–and her menus are dull and overly restricted by modern standards, but the basic ideas are sound even if the context is very, very, old-fashioned. I disagree with her chapter on alcohol–they don’t call it a “beer gut” for nothing–but I assume that dietetics have advanced since 1918 (mine is the 1939 edition). She clearly expected her audience to be middle-class, well-educated, women. I didn’t have any problem understanding her theories or calculations, but I know people who might.
Her method of calculating one’s correct weight is surprisingly reasonable. I think we tend to believe that “normal size” for past generations was much thinner than it is today, but her calculations put me only a pound and a half over my ideal weight and, while I’m not overweight, I am certainly not thin. (Incidentally, I’m also smack in the middle of my healthy BMI range. Yes, I’m aware that the whole BMI concept is highly fallible, but since I exercise regularly-but-not-strenuously and am of medium build, I think I’m a pretty good “average” measure.)
The book is mostly dedicated to “reducing” (that is, weight loss) but there is some advice for weight gain, too. She basically says that if you want to weigh X, you need X many calories, regardless of whether you’re trying to lose or gain to achieve that goal.
The basic ideas are:
1. Calories in, calories out.
2. Exercise is mandatory.
3. Don’t drink your calories.
4. Eat bulky, low-calorie foods (green vegetables, etc.)
5. Diets that eliminate carbohydrates or fat are unhealthy in the long run.
6. Avoid sauces and dressings that add calories to otherwise reasonable food choices.
7. Don’t deprive yourself. Treat yourself occasionally, but fit it into your calorie allowance.
So, the book is very dated in some few respects, but quite modern in many others.
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|Awful!,
The information might be useful for a term paper for diets on the 1800′s. I am glad it was free.
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|Boring mostly,
This book is not good for information on diet and health, however it does have a table listing amounts of common foods with amounts equalling 100 calories.
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