The Bizarre 'Wine and Eggs' Diet Published by Vogue in the 1970s
A vintage excerpt from a 1970s issue of Vogue magazine reveals a highly unconventional weight-loss plan known as the 'Wine and Eggs' diet. The three-day regimen claims to help followers lose five pounds by consuming a strict rotation of hard-boiled eggs, black coffee, and dry white wine—specifically recommending Chablis. The daily meal plan concludes with a steak dinner paired with the remainder of a bottle of wine. This extreme approach to dieting highlights the shifting trends in health and nutrition advice from past decades, serving as a reminder of how drastically dietary recommendations have evolved over time.
You get your gastric ulcers, you get your tachycardia, you get your high blood pressure, all good here.
Recipe for hard black pellet shits at best.
Important to know: it doesn't scale. You don't actually lose 2,5kg of fat, just 2,5kg of _weight_. Reason: by omitting carbs the stored carbs inside your body (plus 4 times their weight in water) will be shed, causing the weight loss. To actually lose fat, you need to use about 8
Sounds like carnivor diet with a little bit more fun
It's a starvation diet basically, no carbs, and just minimal protein. You are only supposed to do it for three days. The alcohol is just to ease the hunger pangs.
Now that's a weight loss diet I could do.
Protein rich and coffee helps with digestion. They were on to something.
paleo protein diet. it works if you work it
This is from around that time as well...
sounds like tuesday