Margo Feiden's The Calorie Factor [antikvár]

TO THE READEREnglish is a wonderful language, but it does have pronoun problems.Fill in the following sentence with the appropriate pronoun: Feed your child as much as_wants.The incorrect way would be to say "it," the old-fashioned way would be to say "he," the currently current way would be to say "he or she."I've solved the problem differently. 1 use a contraction, "s/he." 1 pronounce it sh'-he.The Prologue and Monologue chapters of this book were written to be read together, in one, unhumed sitting.Please do not read them now if you are in a rush. I think this is the only "Do Not!" in the book. Thank you.1 began writing THE CALORIE FACTOR in 1977. If 1 were beginning it now I would use my word processor and have a computerized data base. I didn't start out with either luxury, and resisted changing in midstream. By my o.wn choosing, 1 never had the luxury of an editor, either. Whatever commas are out of place, there's no one to blame but, me.data were gathered over a period of years. 1 have done what I could to add new data as they have come in, but. . . No matter when a book like this goes to press, events will overtake it. That venerated beverage, Coke, has been reformulated. Package sizes shrink and expand. Recently, Nutra-Sweet has widely supplanted saccharine. And so it goes. Some of the data in The Calorielogue are now out of date, and even more will be out of date before this book rolls off the presses.I've done the best 1 could under very trying circumstances. I am not the only person to have had this problem, and I take comfort in quoting from an all-time master compiler:" and believing that a repertory of which / had myself experienced the advantage might, when amplified, prove useful to others, 1 resolved to embark in an undertaking which, for the last three or four years, has given me incessant occupation, and has, indeed, imposed upon me an amount of labor very much greater than I had anticipated. Notwithstanding all the pains / have bestowed on its execution, I am fully aware of its numerous deficiencies and imperfections, and of its falling far short of the degree of excellence that might be attained. But, in a work of this nature, where perfection is placed at so great a distance, I have thought it best to limit my ambition to that moderate share of merit which it may claim in its present form; trusting to the indulgence of those for whose benefit it is intended, and to the candor of critics who, while they find it easy to detect faults, can at the same time duly appreciate difficulties."P. M. Roget April 29, 1852I can only hope that my book will last as long, and prove as useful.THE CALORIE FACTOR has been ten years in the making. This means that it was not all written at the same time, and thatMargo Feiden August 3, 1988