Trust me I'm a Doctor

Those sort of diets were all the rage back then, anno. I did 'The Doctors Quick Weight Loss Diet' and the weight fell off me. I was mostly protein. My breath smelt awful and it's a wonder it didn't make me ill. I then moved on to the 'brown rice diet'; didn't make me ill but nearly died of boredom [I did add worcester sauce to it to make it more exciting].

"Eat food, not too much, most of it plants"
Michael Pollan, American food writer.

Totally agree with that quote Flickety

My sister did the High Fibre diet which worked - in more ways than one!

Waitrose do it.

Oops, that was in answer to the lasagne verdi question. I seem to have missed some posts!

Michael Pollan added 'if it is made from a plant eat it. If it was made in a plant don't.. I might embroider his two sayings on a sampler some day. They are the (flexible) rules that broadly define how I try to eat.

Willshome; thanks for that!

In the 1970s I bought a book on nutrition which I thought was most helpful and tried to follow a lot of the advice in there.
From the way the book was written one would assume that the (American) author would have lived to her 90s in robust health, however she died at the relatively youngish age of 70.