Comments on: Lose weight now the William Howard Taft way!

By: undine

undine — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:11:29 +0000

Reading along . . . cut out potatoes, yes . . . less bread, yes . . . limited water to two glasses a meal–what? Still, this did make me cut down on eating bread.

By: Invisible Man

Invisible Man — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:19:43 +0000

“A man with too few many vices is a man with too few many virtues” A Lincoln

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Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:46:14 +0000

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By: Comradde PhysioProffe

Comradde PhysioProffe — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:26:32 +0000

Jeezus motherfucke!!! There is William Howard Taft Diet comment spamme!!!!!!!! This is the greatest fucken thinge to ever happen on the goddamn motherfucken Internet!!!

By: AuthorOfTheTaftDiet

AuthorOfTheTaftDiet — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:41:07 +0000

President Taft was on a low-fat diet after 1913 because his heart was clogged with dietary fat, and had multiple heart attacks during the 1920s. His doctor was Dean of Yale Medical School, George Blumer, who put him on a low-fat diet. Bluefish salmon tastes good because of the fat content, but is not a good idea for a guy already in bad shape. Taft lost 76 pounds on his pre-presidential diet in 1905-1906, gained it back as President while touring the country ion a train with a private dining car, and lost 96 pounds from 1913-1930 and kept it off using the low-carbohydrate diet summarized in the newspaper story above. Taft’s diet is explained at length using his doctor’s original diet plan instructions in “The Taft Diet: How President Taft Lost 76 Pounds,” his doctor also treated King Edward VII. The doctor even allowed Taft to drink a small amount of Hock wine each day.

By: Z

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:14:55 +0000

On the history professor, all the women in my family of that generation were like that. It was later that everyone got so neo-Victorian-of-a-certain-class. The maiden scholar or maiden career woman concept, that’s post WWII from what I can figure out. Oder nicht?

By: Comradde PhysioProffe

Comradde PhysioProffe — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:05:47 +0000

He lost me on no wine or booze.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:31:19 +0000

I eat bread once or twice a week, almost no potatoes, and pasta only occasionally. Dessert, almost never… What I’ve found is that moderate but regular exercise, and eating a generally moderate diet, allows me occasional indulgences, and some alcohol. If I need to lose a bit, I am just a bit more disciplined for a few weeks (no wine with dinner, perhaps). My only rule is that no food is completely forbidden. (And I’m lucky, I have no allergies.)

That generation of women scholars were pretty amazing.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:34:32 +0000

Tanya–I’m going to get that book. Thanks for the tip!

By: Shane in Utah

Shane in Utah — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:07:02 +0000

I had already cut out most of the pasta, bread, and potatoes from our diets. That, plus watching the drinkies, seems to be a pretty painless strategy for middle-aged health and beauty.

Sounds like a fate worse than death to me. I prefer to keep the starch and the drink, and bike/ski/hike like mad. The results have varied season-to-season, but I currently weigh 50+ pounds less than I did a decade ago, so I guess it’s working for me. The trick is to find activities I enjoy, as opposed to serving time on the stairmaster. And finding those activities has been much easier in Utah than anywhere else I’ve lived.