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Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the PublicTheir words
I like the idea, and also just the fact that over 110 years before the Atkins diet it had all already been done. There are also some great quotes in there, and plenty of social history. Because in his day, seeing someone obese was really quite unusual. Kids would point at him in the street, and laugh at the fat man going down the road, which you wouldn't really get now.
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Yudkin makes a pretty good case for cutting back on sugar, if you read the book, but no one really heard him because he lost the battle with a guy called Ancel Keys
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The F-Plan Diet: Lose Weight Fast and Live LongerTheir words
Reading the book now, it is dated, and some of the recipes are dreadful, most of them involving All-Bran breakfast cereal or baked beans. They're also still very low in fat, using skimmed milk.
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He sold millions of copies of this book, and did a lot to jump-start the vegetarian movement in the US, where it had been very, very small, unlike in the UK. So it was very influential, although when I read and critiqued it, I felt a lot of the data didn't stand up.
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The Fast DietTheir words
Michael didn't invent the diet, he basically took it from other scientists and made it very popular and accessible. I think he's sold a million copies of that book. And it's probably the only diet I would recommend, because it doesn't stop you eating what is good for you