Simple Weight-reducing Diet
1949; BMJ; Volume: 2; Issue: 4617 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/bmj.2.4617.18
ISSN0959-8138
Autores Tópico(s)Diet and metabolism studies
ResumoPhysician With Charge of Out-patients, Middlesex Hospital Fifteen years ago I devised a reducing diet, and have since used it for a large number of patients.The essential instructions are as follows:1. Eat or drink as much as you like (or can get) of Lean meat, poultry, game, rabbit, hare, liver, kidney, heart, sweetbread-cooked in any way, but without addition of flour, breadcrumbs, or thick sauces.Fish (not tinned), boiled or steamed only; no thick sauce.Eggs, boiled or poached only.Potatoes, boiled, steamed, or baked in skins, but not fried, roast, saut6, or " chips "; not potato powder.Other vegetables of all kinds (fresh, tinned, or dried) cooked in any way not involving the use of fat.Salad and tomatoes without oil or mayonnaise.Beetroot, radishes, watercress, parsley.Fresh fruit of any kind, including bananas.Also bottled fruit if bottled without sugar.Not tinned or dried fruits (including dates, figs, and raisins).Sour pickles, not sweet pickles or chutneys.Clear soup, broth, " bovril," " oxo," " marmite."Salt, pepper, mustard, vinegar, Worcester sauce (no other sauces).Saccharin for sweetening.Water, soda-water, and non-sweetened mineral waters.Tea and coffee (milk only as allowed below).2.You may have milk (not condensed) up to half a pint (284 ml.) daily.No cream.3.You may have three very small pieces of bread per day and take them either one at each main meal or all three at one meal as desired (" very small " means not exceeding 1 oz.- 28 g.).4. You may have nothing else whatever; particularly note that this means:No butter, margarine, fat, or oil (except for cooking meat, not fish).No sugar, jam, marmalade, honey, sweets, chocolate, cocoa.No puddings, ices, dried or tinned fruits, nuts.No bread (except as above), cake, biscuits, toast, patent reducing breads, cereals, oatmeal, "all-bran," " ryvita,"" vitawheat.
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