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Eating healthy sounds like a concept that should be pretty simple, right?
What one expert recommends, another swears is outdated and incorrect.
What we thought was true about health in the past is suddenly all wrong.
What about all these superfoods?
So what did eating healthy look like 50 years ago?
In 1967, Dr. Irwin Stillmandeveloped the Stillman Diet, also known asThe Doctor’s Quick Weight Loss Diet.
I spoke to Lona Manning who was 12 in 1967, and she knew all about the Stillman Diet.
“It worked like a hot damn, too,” she told me.
In fact, it may have workedtoowell, making it dangerous.
The biography indicates that in 1967, adoctor recommended Carpentertry the Stillman Diet.
In 1983, Karen Carpenterdied from complications of anorexia nervosa.
“From the start,” she told me, the books says, “‘Mrs.
Homemaker, this book is for you…in full appreciation of your problems of running a home.
“Every housewife was a food expert back then,” he said.
“[The] bottom line was eating a lot of fruits and vegetables.
The exception, she said, was Tang and Kool-aid.
Since Tang was “the drink of the astronauts” it was considered healthy for a time.
Turns out that was a huge mistake.”
“These were considered a healthier option,” she told me.
Margarine was considered healthy
You heard that right.
“Margarine was considered healthy, and a good substitute of animal-derived butter,” Haar said.
Today, the company has grown by leaps and bounds.
Enter the era offad diets!
One of these was eating as a family, despite the emergence of distracting technology.
A study in theArchives of Family Medicinefound that eating together as a family is healthier, especially for children.
It’s hard to predict.
But as the saying goes, those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Now,who wants some guacamole?
