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...maybe amusing) to publicize urban poundage comparisons hadn't yet got into gear. But I think it's fair to say we didn't give the impression of having missed a lot of meals. The only nutritional theory I ever heard from my father was that you couldn't gain more weight from eating food than the food itself weighed--so a person devouring a pound of particularly rich chocolate couldn't put on more than 1 lb. That sort of theorizing runs in the family and may be one of our problems. When I began to weigh myself regularly...