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Sat, Apr-22-06, 16:35

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"Drinking Man's Diet" Author at 93!

Wow! I just stumbled across this article about Robert Cameron, author of 1964's"The Drinking Man's Diet" . It's from a year ago, but at that time he was a very active 93 years old!

(Note: The Amazon link gives "Jeffrey W. Roberts" as the author. It is a pseudonym.)

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Sat, Apr-22-06, 16:44

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That is very interesting. Thanks for the links!

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Sat, Apr-22-06, 17:36

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Just think how old he would be if he hadn't done all that drinking!

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Sun, Apr-23-06, 04:34

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Here's another article, this one from Forbes magazine, on the diet, complete with a picture of the dapper old guy, drink in hand, lol! (And

at Mike's comment!) It also contains a sample menu and testimonials.

According to the article, the guy who founded Harvard's School of Public Health called the diet "mass murder" at the time. (I wonder if he's still around?)

From the article:

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To Cameron's credit, his original said...in its conclusion: "Don't be a hog. If you gorge yourself with food, even if it is low in carbohydrates, you will get fat. If you drink too much, you will get drunk. Moderation in the pursuit of happiness is no vice."

And I love this, from the book -

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"So, drinkers 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."

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This is so funny. I have the original 1964 publication with the price prominently displayed on the front cover...$1.00! It is a simple light brown book with black bold printing. Fifty pages of written material with 4 blank pages for "Notes". I think I'll read it again just for fun!

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Originally Posted by HappyLC

According to the article, the guy who founded Harvard's School of Public Health called the diet "mass murder" at the time. (I wonder if he's still around?)

He died in 1992 at the age of 91.

From an obituary of Dr. Stare

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Dr Stare leapt to the defence of sugar (“a quick energy food...put a teaspoon in [your] coffee or tea three or four times a day”), Coca-Cola (“a healthy between-meals snack”) and all those nasty Es (“Eat your additives. They're good for you”). Small wonder, then, that the American food industry thought it had a friend in Dr Stare. Any recommendation he made was bound to please some lobby or other. Manufacturers of corn oil and margarine much appreciated his intervention in the Great Lipids Controversy of the early 1960s, when Dr Stare decided, untypically, to demonise butter, and recommended that all Americans should drink a cup of corn oil a day.

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Mon, Apr-24-06, 07:02

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Fascinating, Mike...thanks.

Coca-Cola - “a healthy between-meals snack”!!

My husband went to medical school in the early 80's, and was taught that sugar was perfectly harmless and there was nothing at all wrong with sugary breakfast cereals, etc., if they got kids to consume all the vitamins they need.