The Fat Boy's Calorie Guide

United States: Avon Periodicals, Inc. in association with Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1953. Good. Extremities worn, some dust soiling.. A guide to calorie counting published in 1953, offering a veritable flight of fat-phobic axioms to motivate the desperate dieter: "Men never get chattie With Girls who are fattie"; "Be shrewd-edit your food"; and "People who edit will never regret it!". The bulk of the text is devoted to meal planning and calorie counting, with charts showing "ideal" weights for men and women, suggested calorie quotas, diet plans, and several pages listing 100-calorie serving sizes for different foods ranging from raw onions (3-4 medium onions) to dried lentils (2 1/2 tablespoons). There is also a list of calorie counts for popular American staples such as Hershey's chocolate and Cheerios cereal. Whimsical cartoons are included throughout. Surely the catalyst to many an eating disorder in its day. 32mo (5.25" by 3.25"), pp. 64, illustrated, stapled in original illustrated yellow and blue wrappers.