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Not just 60. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Banting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Banting Actually this made me wonder how far back you could go

Not just 60. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Banting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Banting Actually this made me wonder how far back you could go, and a little searching turned up a vaguely-decent match from antiquity: "Obese people and those desiring to lose weight should perform hard work before food . . . Their meals should be of a fatty nature as people get thus satiated with little food. They should, moreover, eat only once a day and take no baths and sleep on a hard bed and walk naked as long as possible. —Hippocrates (Hippocrates on Diet and Hygiene, Zeno, London, 1952)" at http://forum.lowcarber.org/archive/index.php/t-464645.html http://forum.lowcarber.org/archive/index.php/t-464645.html which was ironically hard to find among all the hits for a vegetarian Hippocrates Diet.

serf 11y ago
>sleep on a hard bed and walk naked as long as possible That's the problem , huh. I'll have to let my co-workers know that they're in for a few weeks of naked walking around the office.
- abecedarius 11y ago
  I wonder if the walking naked "as long as possible" is about the seasons? That is, subjecting yourself to colder temperatures -- which is also a modern recommendation (cold showers) in some of the same circles as recommend a high-fat diet with intermittent fasting ("eat only once a day", "hard work before food"). If so, the hard bed's the only part that been dropped.
  - CuriouslyC 11y ago
    Almost definitely not. Vitamin D deficiency is fairly common today, even with good food sources like fortified dairy products and eggs. The ancient Greeks didn't have fortified dairy and the chicken hadn't been domesticated yet, so the only readily available food source of vitamin D was liver. Luckily, the body can produce vitamin D; half an hour of naked sun exposure is more than sufficient to meet your daily requirements.
    - abecedarius 11y ago
      That sounds like a better idea. I've seen a couple claims that higher vitamin-D levels go with lower weight, e.g. https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/releases/2014/04/vitamin-d-effect-on-weight-loss.html https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/releases/2014/04/vitamin-d...

serf 11y ago

>sleep on a hard bed and walk naked as long as possible That's the problem , huh. I'll have to let my co-workers know that they're in for a few weeks of naked walking around the office.

abecedarius 11y ago
I wonder if the walking naked "as long as possible" is about the seasons? That is, subjecting yourself to colder temperatures -- which is also a modern recommendation (cold showers) in some of the same circles as recommend a high-fat diet with intermittent fasting ("eat only once a day", "hard work before food"). If so, the hard bed's the only part that been dropped.
- CuriouslyC 11y ago
  Almost definitely not. Vitamin D deficiency is fairly common today, even with good food sources like fortified dairy products and eggs. The ancient Greeks didn't have fortified dairy and the chicken hadn't been domesticated yet, so the only readily available food source of vitamin D was liver. Luckily, the body can produce vitamin D; half an hour of naked sun exposure is more than sufficient to meet your daily requirements.
  - abecedarius 11y ago
    That sounds like a better idea. I've seen a couple claims that higher vitamin-D levels go with lower weight, e.g. https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/releases/2014/04/vitamin-d-effect-on-weight-loss.html https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/releases/2014/04/vitamin-d...