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don’t believe in diets.” says Mrs. Bart Brown. “All it does is makes liars and rogues of us.” < Today it's stylish to diet—or, at least, it seems to be the fashion*
Read your life insurance advertisements. The extra pounds of fat are so many years off your life, according to the charts and statistics. Shucks! there’s no need of statistics for that bit of information. Every family—or community—has had a Mary Ann: “We’d better go visit Mary Ann, you know, she’s not long for this world. She’s so puny and thin. She’s been ailing for ’a long time.” Yeah, and the Mary Anns of every family and neighborhood, who have been so puny and ailin’, have been suffering from ill health since they were eighteen-and-delicate until now they are well past eighty and still delicate. The strong, healthy, and fat members of the family have long since passed on to their reward. But, halt, and pity the fat one. Regardless of what’s wrong, the doctor says, “diet.” It maizes no difference what the ill: arthritis, tonsilitis, appendicitis, hepatitis, or laryngitis—the verdict is "diet!” t Diet is an ugly word, and it’s a discouraging process. You starve all
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