Mortify: to subject to intense embarrassment
In Swifts’s Modest Proposal, he suggests eating poor Irish children as a solution to the social problem. Of course, it’s meant satirically. Swift didn’t really advocate cannibalism.
Ideal weight in pounds divided by 2.2 give you weight in kilograms (kg) the Resting Energy Requirements (RER) based on this ideal weight
o 70 x [(ideal weight in kg)] ¾
or 70 x [(ideal weight in kg) to the ¾ pow
