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In case anyone sees this in time to watch it
I assume the lowcarb diet will be Banting, which Dr Atkins adapted.
I just hope they follow it properly and don't turn it into some silly 'reality TV' mess!
The Diets That Time Forgot
Channel 4, 9pm
The latest blend of history-lite and reality TV shows why our ancestors had such different body shapes. Nine overweight volunteers spend 24 days in a country house following diets conceived a century ago. Three of them are put on a high-protein, low- carb Victorian diet. Another three follow an Edwardian diet that involves eating anything as long as each mouthful is chewed 32 times before swallowing. And the last group follow a calorie-counting diet from the 1920s, which consists of dull salads and fruit. Much of the fun of the series is provided by Sir Roy Strong, who presides over the venture like a posh Simon Cowell, dismissing his charges as “bundles of cloth and flab” with the waft of an invisible handkerchief drenched in expensive scent.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co...icle3570147.ece
Channel 4, 9pm
The latest blend of history-lite and reality TV shows why our ancestors had such different body shapes. Nine overweight volunteers spend 24 days in a country house following diets conceived a century ago. Three of them are put on a high-protein, low- carb Victorian diet. Another three follow an Edwardian diet that involves eating anything as long as each mouthful is chewed 32 times before swallowing. And the last group follow a calorie-counting diet from the 1920s, which consists of dull salads and fruit. Much of the fun of the series is provided by Sir Roy Strong, who presides over the venture like a posh Simon Cowell, dismissing his charges as “bundles of cloth and flab” with the waft of an invisible handkerchief drenched in expensive scent.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co...icle3570147.ece
I just hope they follow it properly and don't turn it into some silly 'reality TV' mess!
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