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Lulu Hunt Peters (1873–1930) was an American doctor and author who wrote a featured newspaper column entitled ''Diet and Health'', which she followed up with a best-selling book, ''Diet & Health: With Key to the Calories''. She was the first person to widely popularize the concept of counting calories as a method of weight loss.〔 It was also the first weight-loss book to become a bestseller.〔 == Education == Peters was born in Milford, Maine and attended the Maine State Normal School in Castine, Maine before moving to California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Ancestry.com )〕 She attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated in 1909 as a Doctor of Medicine. Having grown up a hefty child and once weighing 220 lbs, she was extremely conscious of the problems weight presented to her. For a number of years, Dr. Hunt wrote a featured newspaper column entitled ''Diet and Health'' for the Central Press Association, which supplied content for about 400 newspapers nationwide. In 1918, her diet book ''Diet & Health: With Key to the Calories'', named after her column, sold 2 million copies and presented the concept of cutting back calories as the best form of weight loss/watching weight to American women, who were wanting to conform to the new-found body image “thin is in”. Along with presenting a solution for American women, this method, according to Peters, was an active form of patriotism (during World War I). She suggested that dieting meant having complete self-control and recommended that women organize Watch Your Weight Anti-Kaiser Classes to obtain it. Peters followed her own advice/health regimens and accredited them, along with her regular attendance at women’s suffragist rallies, for her health, and self-sufficiency. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lulu Hunt Peters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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