Dieting Advice from 1918

The first ever bestselling diet book, Diet and Health With Key to the Calories, by Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters, was published in 1918. For those who didn't want to lose weight using "sanitized tapeworms" this book offers some real gems. Here are a few of my favorites:

"Thin people have been proved to radiate fifty percent  more heat per pound than fat people"

"Mineral oil will make a fine mayonnaise dressing. It has little or no food value, so the constipated overweight individual may indulge...