Diet and Health - With Key to the Calories by Lulu Hunt Peters
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5. What should be done for faulty elimination? 4 More Keys and More Calories [Sidenote: _List of Foods to Follow_] The following list probably does not contain all of the foods you might like and want to know about, but from those named you can judge of the food value of others. In general, the caloric value, and therefore the fattening value, depends upon the amount of fat and the degree of concentration. [Sidenote: _Important_] But remember this point: _Any food eaten beyond what your system requires for its energy, growth, and repair, is fattening, or is an irritant, or both_. [Sidenote: _A Moderate Sized Chocolate Cream_] If a food contains much fat, you will know that it is high in food value, for fat has two and one-quarter times the caloric value that proteins and carbohydrates have. Dry foods are high in value, for they |
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