A long overdue THREAD
A low-carb diet for ladies and teetotalers too
Gems In "The Drinking Man's Diet" ©1964
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For people worried about cholesterol, we have added a table showing the cholesterol content of foods. This will enable you to plan menus which are low in both carbohydrates and cholesterol.
[Even then, they knew … Also, no mention of smoking cessation.]
🚨To emphasize just how agreeable a low-carbohydrate diet can be, just consider the discomforts of its only alternative, the low-calorie diet.
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🚨You will be eating satisfying meals. Pangs of hunger won't be making you nervous in the middle of the afternoon.
Since many scientific tests have shown a high correlation between carbohydrate intake and dental caries, you may well find that you are saving money on dentist's bills.
🚨You can use the money saved to buy well-marbled steaks.
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More recent scientific studies have all pointed in the same direction: it is carbohydrates which are chiefly responsible for making us fat.🚨
🚨The thing to remember is that if you restrict your diet to fats and proteins you will feel satisfied on fewer calories than if you were on a high-carbohydrate diet.🚨
🚨 In the second place, calories are not interchangeable little entities which we pump into our bodies the way we pump gasoline into our cars. It is not just quantity, but quality of calories which counts.
[A calorie is a calorie was bullshit in 1964 too]
🚨 And it is a fact that meats and vegetables such as are recommended on our diet have more nutritional value per calorie than starches and sweets. 💥
Our calories tend to get burned up in the metabolic process which keeps our bodies going; the carbohydrate-eater's calories tend to store up as useless body fat.🚨
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Our own experience, and that of our friends and families, confirms that this is a diet which is simple, easy to hold to, placing a minimum strain on the willpower.
[Sustainable]🚨
We can even experiment from time to time, and indulge a yen for high-carbohydrate foods like spaghetti (32 grams). Our scales give us plenty of warning when it is time to go back on the strict under-sixty routine.
[Our scales and our pants, if not the mirror]
My wife and my doctor bullied me into a starvation diet, and soon I was lying to them and lying to myself.
[🚨Starvation = low-calorie. Strange there are no ultra-processed "low-calorie" foods labeled "STARVATION!"]
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If he [your doctor] is worried about your cholesterol level, for example, he will undoubtedly urge you not to replace high-carbohydrate foods with high-cholesterol foods like fatty meats, brains, eggs and caviar.
[It's not about more fats, but fewer carbs]
🚨 If you overeat because of psychological pressures, you don't need a diet, you need a psychiatrist.
🚨 If you can't control your drinking, you should be in Alcoholics Anonymous.
So, drinkers [and ladies and teetotallers] of the world, throw away your defatted cottage cheese and your cabbage juice; and sit down with us to roast duck and Burgundy. You have nothing to lose but your waistlines.
[and a crap ton of CVD risk factors]
💥 ©1964 😠
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