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Sunday 28 April 2013

The Drinking Man's Diet

Did you ever hear of a diet which was fun to follow? A diet which would let you have two martinis before lunch, and a thick steak generously spread with Sauce BĂ©arnaise, so that you could make your sale in a relaxed atmosphere and go back to the office without worrying about having gained so much as an ounce? A diet which allows you to take out your favorite girl for a dinner of squab and broccoli with hollandaise sauce and Chateau Lafitte, to be followed by an evening of rapture and champagne?"

So starts a jaunty little pamphlet titled The Drinking Man's Diet that first appeared in 1964. It was published by an equally jaunty San Francisco bon vivant, Robert Cameron, who priced it at $1. (Cameron used noms de plume--first Gardner Jameson and Elliott Williams, later Jeffrey W. Roberts.) In two years, he sold 2.4 million copies in 13 languages. Now Cameron, 93, still jaunty, still a bon vivant and still admirably trim from following his own diet, is reissuing this classic. 

Like Atkins, whose own low-carb diet followed Drinking Man nine years later, Cameron proposes healthful weight loss by reducing one's intake of carbohydrates. As far as it goes, that's fine, since what Cameron's book terms "man-type" food (also "aesthetic" and "gourmet" food) is mercifully low in carbs: well-marbled steaks, thick slabs of fish, salads strewn with Roquefort.


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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Robert Cameron now 93.What a lifestyle. Who says living a lower carb 'diet' is not good for you. Low Carb is attacked by so many. Are they envious of what some do achieve and they can't? 'Diet' it isn't it's a different approach to living and the benefits are huge.

Dee

Puddleg said...

Here's Allan Sherman's tribute song about The Drinking Man's Diet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRJ02VB5Evk

Brilliant!

diabeteshealthcare said...

Diabetes is a very tough disease to care for. You have to make huge changes in your diet and also carefully monitor and maintain your disease.




Diet for diabetes

Lowcarb team member said...

Hi Dee
I love your comment "diet it isn't it's a different approach to living and the benefits are huge".
As has been stated on the blog I am not a diabetic but follow a reduced carbohydrate in take in my diet, and it suits me. A lot of readers and followers here who are diabetics have had huge success and improved their health by following a low carb diet. It is a different approach and thinking, a new lifestyle, and Robert Cameron is looking good at 93!

Thanks to you, and all contributors for your thoughts and comments

All the best Jan

Anonymous said...

Great article and interesting man. I liked the way he showed his ideas for meals and you don't have to have a drink, although a small glass might be nice! LOL

Jean