Drink, eat and be thin

by Joseph Alsop

Published in 1965, seven years before Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, this is syndicated political columnist Joe Alsop's account of successfully losing weight on a carbohydrate restricted diet. He called his approach "the Martini drinker's diet," but according to his account, he drank far more alcohol than a couple of Martinis - prodigious quantities that would shock us today. But he still lost weight quickly and wrote that he suffered no hunger or other ill effects while on the diet.