Definition to learn:
CALORIE; symbol C.; a heat unit and food value unit; is that amount of heat necessary to raise one pound of water 4 degrees Fahrenheit.
There is a good deal of effort expended by many semi-educated individuals to discredit the knowledge of calories, saying that it is a foolish food science, a fallacy, a fetish, and so forth.
They reason, or rather say, that because there are no calories in some of the very vital elements of foods--the vitamines and the mineral salts--therefore it is not necessary to know about them. They further argue that their grandfathers never heard of calories and they got along all right. That grandfather argument
Subtitle
With Key to the Calories
Author
Lulu Hunt Peters
Categories
Science, Health
Language
English
Published
1918
Word count
19,759
Excerpt
uld be answered. To get the full benefit, Little Book must be studied, for it is the only authorized textbook of the "Watch Your Weights."
Key to the Calories
Some one page the thin? They come back here.
CALORIE; symbol C.; a heat unit and food value unit; is that amount of heat necessary to raise one pound of water 4 degrees Fahrenheit.
There is a good deal of effort expended by many semi-educated individuals to discredit the knowledge of calories, saying that it is a foolish food science, a fallacy, a fetish, and so forth.
They reason, or rather say, that because there are no calories in some of the very vital elements of foods--the vitamines and the mineral salts--therefore it is not necessary to know about them. They further argue that their grandfathers never heard of calories and they got along all right. That grandfather argument
Subtitle
With Key to the Calories
Author
Lulu Hunt Peters
Categories
Science, Health
Language
English
Published
1918
Word count
19,759
Excerpt
uld be answered. To get the full benefit, Little Book must be studied, for it is the only authorized textbook of the "Watch Your Weights."
Key to the Calories
Some one page the thin? They come back here.
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