Think Yourself Thin: Be Healthy, Happy and Fit

358 Pages“It’s later than you think… WE WOULD ALL LIKE TO BE SLIM and young and good-looking. I wish I could wave a magic wand and transform all of you into glamorous, radiant creatures of twenty-one. But like the witch in John van Druten’s Bell, Book and Candle, my wand is useless, and my broom, good only for prosaic, utilitarian tasks, stands idly in the closet. However, if you are overweight, I believe I can show you how to become comfortably thin, look and feel younger and healthier—and have a good chance to live longer, too, if you’ll put your mind to it. There are nearly one hundred and ten million adults in America, and it has been estimated that, of that number, over twenty-two million weigh too much—and would be better off if they didn’t. When twenty per cent of a population suffers from a serious defect, something should be done about it. I’m not optimistic enough to believe that I can influence the weight and health of that great a portion of the population—but if I help even a few, I’ll be mighty happy about it. I’m taking it for granted that you weigh too much, or that someone you’re interested in weighs too much. Otherwise you’d be pretty foolish to waste your time over this book. Of course, you could gloat over the over-weights and what they have to put up with! But this book is not for gloaters. It is for those who are too fat and who want to do something about it. I could make definite promises that you’ll lose weight— and look and feel better if you follow the rules you’ll read here; I could guarantee that you’d weigh less and improve in health—but I don’t dare. Not because you won’t lose weight if you follow the rules, but because too many readers can’t or won’t read.Foreword by DR. SIDNEY M. SCHNITTKE IX 1 It’s later than you think I 2 Live long and like it 9 3 The weigh of all flesh 24 4 Eat to live 35 5 “It’s my glands!” 46 6 Salt of the earth 53 7 This may be the answer 58 8 Face it—you’re fat 68 9 Body and soul 80 10 You eat your cake and have it 92 11 Portrait of you 103 12 Food for thought 111 13 Those vitamins! 124 14 Choose your weapons 136 15 Good bye to yesterday 161 16 Start to think yourself thin 169 17 Drink yourself fat 182 18 The battle of the bulge 195 19 Try this for size 212 20 Mind over platter 225 21 You eat at home 236 22 You eat out 249 23 Exercise and how to avoid it 267 24 Sweets to the sweet 289 25 Keep on eating 310 26 Hold that line! 330