How Old Were You in 1972? What Two Important Things happened in 1972? (OMG Alert)
Over the last couple of days, a lot of people were weighing and qualifying the dramatic shit I stirred over the preceding week or two. Personally, I’m hoping for small amounts of high quality, but I’m not holding my breath—though I perhaps should. Any rate, this gave me needed time to read and think.
1972—I was 11 years old—saw the publishing of two indirectly related books. One would go on to institute a dietary revolution and the other, to abject obscurity.
I read the obscure one. I’m reading it again, too. No. you’ll have to wait for my next post to know what book it is. Neener. Neener.
See, Dr. Atkins only published his work in 1972, the first edition of The Diet Revolution. In fact, his experience with carbohydrate restriction went back to 1963 where he himself had put on the pounds and restricted carbohydrate to lose them a-la Pennington. Fast forward to 1965, where Robert Atkins made an appearance on The Tonight Show; and then, 1970, an article in Vogue. From Wikipedia.
The popularity of the plan with the magazine’s female readership caused a surge in popularity for both Atkins and the magazine, and his dietary regimen was known for many years as simply “The Vogue Diet”.
What if the obscure book was written by a UCLA nutrition-brain-neurology-behavior researcher who was being referred folks with serious mental issues…by psychologist and psychiatrist friends, acquaintances, and trickle down referrals? And what if the vast majority of them were women? And what if more, an important percentage of those were on a newfangled reducing diet? What if it was otherwise known as The Vogue Diet?
The plot thickens, doesn’t it? Neener. Neener.
Being the misogynist and hater I am, I was particularly interested in the women aspect of the thing. After all, when I published Paleo Problems back in 2010 and found that most of the problems seemed to be coming from women, it was but to gloat, wasn’t it?
Same here. Really, huh? This is about giving you machos the info you need to work in your favor. Don’t ever get the idea I care about women and potentially, unique problems. It ought to be obvious by now that I hate helping people, particularly women.
But I’m also practical. And as a practical matter, I emailed the people I judged the best qualified to judge the whole thing. They have all the info needed but if necessary, I’ll see they’re mailed copies. There are three of them. Two professional scientists, and a geek-layman. Huge bonuses to anyone who guesses who among populars I’d pick.
We’ll see, but my own rather detailed review and specific thoughts will be up in a few days.
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O.k., I’ll play. Author G.W. . . . and I was 5 at the time. Neener Neener ;)
Well, I was eighteen back in 72 and naively thought that religion would defunct by the turn of the century. How wrong I was.
I was 18 in 1972, and did not know at the time that I was clueless.
Bill, that must be awfully disappointing. I’m thinking monotheistic Western religion may be the original antifragile system/concept/construct, it doesn’t just gain from adversity and attacks, the bugger seems to thrive on them. Pessimistic outlook, I know . . . each generation has it’s handicaps, eh? :)
Marie:
Thank you for being an adult and keeping a secret.
Mary:
You weren’t. This is just new information that for me, having been around and pretty familiar with LC over the years, has been totally lost.
I’m not bright eyed about it. It’s simply not part of the discussion in the very precise manner in which it was meticulously intended to be. I’m doing my small part to attract interest in making it part of the discussion.
marie, I can live with most religions trucking on, although Christianity is in decline, especially in Europe.
It’s the growth of political islam that I never anticipated. I worked in Saudi from 1975 on for some years up until 1989. Tried to flag up the threat in the 90’s
It’s frightening how things are now in The UK and islam.
Not looking good.
If you think islamofascists are annoying now when they see you as an enemy, you should see what they do to their friends:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mosque_Seizure
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anwar_Sadat
[…] Alright, and now I'll get to some more productive things like a Milk Diet Update (Week 5), a post on a new study involving gut flora and emotions in humans, and probably tomorrow, a detailed review on the 1972 book I mentioned yesterday. […]
Bill, I note you distinguished ‘political’ islam. Now look at an egregious example of how extremely zealous political correctness can (willfully?) misread any criticism of Anything related to islam (warning: may cause crossed-eyes and face-planting ;) ) : .
Also, unfortunately I don’t believe Christianity is in any real decline, just in an apathy trough due to an unprecedented long period of Internal peace and prosperity in Europe. At least, from what I see in the Euro- stats, there’s only a little rise in reasoned atheism and a large rise in what I’d call ‘lapsed’ believers, those who just need a few years of trouble and strife to flock back to their churches. Though, I do have hope… I hope that I’m completely wrong on this.
Here’s an interesting book from 6 years earlier.
[…] there's still another dot to connect. Those who subscribe to the newsletter already know about the 1972 book I referenced the other day. While it's predominantly about adverse mental issues having to do with diets too low or two high […]
That’s gotta be a joke. Look at the one review. The guy buys into the notion of food taking more energy to digest than it provides. He apparently got it from the book.
The one I’m talking about is by an actually medical researcher, recruiting people into his study, most referred by psychologists and psychiatrists–in a couple of cases, their wives!