Diet and Health; With Key to the Calories

The calorie counter that started it all. In 1918, physician Lulu Hunt Peters wrote the first best-selling diet book in America, and she did it with wit, warmth, and plain arithmetic. She teaches you to eat by the numbers, to treat food as fuel with a budget, and to laugh at yourself along the way. Nearly a century of diet books grew from this one cheerful little volume, and it still reads like advice from a clever friend.