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Overweight and Underweight

Overweight and Underweight

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About this eBook

Original Publication
United States: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company,1953.
Credits
Stephen Hutcheson, Lisa Corcoran and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
RM: Medicine: Therapeutics, Pharmacology
Subject
Weight gain
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 66226
Release Date
September 6, 2021
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.OVERWEIGHT AND UNDERWEIGHT
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.What Is Desirable Weight?
  4. 4.OVERWEIGHT AND ITS DANGERS — What Makes a Person Fat? — Why Do People Overeat? — How to Lose Weight — The Body’s Need for Food — The Body’s Need for Exercise — What About Short Cuts? — How Many Calories? — Remember
  5. 5.HELPFUL HINTS — On Keeping a Record — Special Problems
  6. 6.UNDERWEIGHT AND ITS DANGERS — What Causes Underweight? — How to Gain Weight — Adding Extra Calories — Saving Energy
  7. 7.CALORIE TABLES
  8. 8.FOOTNOTES
  9. 9.Transcriber’s Notes

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