A History Of Diets - Chronology of Dieting - The 1980s
Food Combining, established by William L. Hay - also known as The Hay Diet advocated that starches and protein foods should not be eaten at the same meal, owing to the different types of enzymes that were required to digest them. This was hugely popular, and was to last as a viable method of successful weight loss right up to the present day, as well as being a panacea for a multitude of minor ailments, including headaches, irritable bowel, stomach ulcers, indigestion and constipation.
The Beverley Hills Diet advocated fruit only for the first 10 days, and thereafter as the only food before midday. Whilst this suited many actors on the Hollywood scene, and many others followed in the first era of the 'celebrity status' it was found to be disruptive to those who had hormonal imbalances, or were susceptible to developing diabetes, as it consisted of little fibre and virtually no protein.
The Cabbage Soup Diet became popular worldwide with women desperate to fit into fashionable leggings. The Cabbage Soup Diet works, temporarily, by cutting daily calories to near-starvation levels. Interestingly, no one has claimed responsibility for inventing the cabbage soup diet. So there isn't an "official" version, but various cabbage diet plans exist based around eating copious quantities of cabbage soup, and very little else.
Food Combining, established by William L. Hay - also known as The Hay Diet advocated that starches and protein foods should not be eaten at the same meal, owing to the different types of enzymes that were required to digest them. This was hugely popular, and was to last as a viable method of successful weight loss right up to the present day, as well as being a panacea for a multitude of minor ailments, including headaches, irritable bowel, stomach ulcers, indigestion and constipation.
The Beverley Hills Diet advocated fruit only for the first 10 days, and thereafter as the only food before midday. Whilst this suited many actors on the Hollywood scene, and many others followed in the first era of the 'celebrity status' it was found to be disruptive to those who had hormonal imbalances, or were susceptible to developing diabetes, as it consisted of little fibre and virtually no protein.
The Cabbage Soup Diet became popular worldwide with women desperate to fit into fashionable leggings. The Cabbage Soup Diet works, temporarily, by cutting daily calories to near-starvation levels. Interestingly, no one has claimed responsibility for inventing the cabbage soup diet. So there isn't an "official" version, but various cabbage diet plans exist based around eating copious quantities of cabbage soup, and very little else.
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