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I was reading through a Pears Encyclopaedia from 1975 last night and I found some advice which I thought people here might be interested in. We didn't really have anything other than local seasonal fruit, with the possible exception of (expensive) bananas and (sometimes) oranges: although I don't recall my family ever buying them. 1975 was also well before pasta was discovered in the UK, and when rice was still something served sweetened as a pudding.
"If you are overweight you need to slim, and the question is how? Answer: by will-power. There is no other satisfactory method than to decide to eat less, and to eat as little carbohydrate as possible. For the time being eat as much meat, fruit, green vegetables, and as much fat as you like, but no sugar, starch, sweets, cakes, pastry, or biscuits, and no eating between meals. And cut down on beer and other alcoholic drinks. In case you are tempted to eat "slimming" foods, be aware that there is no such thing. There is nothing you can eat which will cause you to lose weight, in spite of what the advertisement says. "
I understand they usually got someone eminent from a Royal College to write these. What goes around, comes around?
"If you are overweight you need to slim, and the question is how? Answer: by will-power. There is no other satisfactory method than to decide to eat less, and to eat as little carbohydrate as possible. For the time being eat as much meat, fruit, green vegetables, and as much fat as you like, but no sugar, starch, sweets, cakes, pastry, or biscuits, and no eating between meals. And cut down on beer and other alcoholic drinks. In case you are tempted to eat "slimming" foods, be aware that there is no such thing. There is nothing you can eat which will cause you to lose weight, in spite of what the advertisement says. "
I understand they usually got someone eminent from a Royal College to write these. What goes around, comes around?