Diet and Health: With Key to the Calories

Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters' book Diet and Health: With Key to the Calories is extremely popular because it is witty and entertaining. In the book, Dr. Hunt introduces a few new exercise routines and the concept of a calorie so thoroughly that her book evens provides instruction on the words pronunciation. She preaches that people can eat whatever they want as long as a strict diet of 1,200 calories a day in maintained, in order to keep the ideal weight that her system suggests. She captivates her readers because she knows the shame in being fat (having once weighed 200 lbs), and the sacrifice that dieting entailed, first hand. According to Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters, who lost 50-70 lbs with her diet regimen, dieting meant being beautiful, and being in total control of the self.