He and his wife, eating a high fat, low-carb diet since 1962. See how he looks, now, at 72.
Despite following this shockingly high-fat diet for more than 40 years, Barry now weighs 6lb less than he did on his wedding day in 1957 when he tipped the scales at 11st 7lb.
He and Monica break every single diet diktat that has been trumpeted as “healthy eating”. And yet, here they are, trim, fit and full of beans, albeit metaphorical ones. How on earth do they do it? And where are the rest of us – eating piles of fruit and veg, and steering clear of cholesterol-laden butter – going wrong? After all, we’ve never been subject to so much education on good dietary practice, and yet prey to so many illnesses, ranging from diabetes to heart disease.
“Most people are eating in a way that is unnatural to us as a species,” says Barry, who holds a doctorate in nutritional science and has just written a book called Trick and Treat: How Healthy Eating Is Making Us Ill. “We’re a carnivorous species – our gut is identical to that of a big cat. Yet we’re encouraged to eat foods that have been padded out with modified starch and vegetable oils, and complex carbohydrates such as bread, pasta and rice, which have all been labelled healthy – but not the fatty meat that our body actually recognises.”
Jimmy Moore has a two-part podcast interview with Barry Groves.
Jimmy does a lot of work getting some really good interviews. You can subscribe to his podcasts at iTunes, and even access the vast array of past interviews. I like to listen to them in the car on long drives.
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Barry is great. His Eat Fat Get thin book got me into low carb/high fat eating.
For the confused Yanks on this list…
11st 7lb is 151lb
I meant 161lb !
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