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u/Andrew_Tracey · 316 pointsr/todayilearned

The diet was simple: protein, fat, and copious alcohol consumption.

>“Did you ever hear of a diet which was fun to follow?” Cameron wrote. “A diet that would let you have two martinis before lunch, and a thick steak generously spread with Sauce Bearnaise, so that you could make your sale in a relaxed atmosphere and go back to the office without worrying about having gained so much as an ounce?”

The above aludes to the famous "three-Martini lunch" (the wiki article for those unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-martini_lunch ).

An example of an approved meal:

>A typical “Drinking Man’s” lunch might be a dry martini or whiskey and soda, two glasses of wine, broiled fish or steak or roast chicken, green beans or asparagus, lettuce and tomato salad with french or Roquefort dressing.

The bit about how the book was based on the observation of alcoholics did not come from the submitted article, it came from this one I was reading which led me to google this thing out of sheer morbid curiousity, which led to the submitted article. The quote in question:

>Back in the 1960’s there was a popular diet called the “Drinking Man’s Diet.” The idea was that a dieter would replace their sugars and starches for alcohol… It was like Atkins + wine. The diet came to be after observing heavy drinkers losing weight despite drinking thousands of alcohol calories each day!
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>While it’s true that heavy drinkers’ bodies learn to waste alcohol calories and turn them into heat, all that heat makes the food turn into a host of chemicals that seriously affect vital organs (think cancer, liver problems, etc). The study also showed that if you’re just a moderate drinker or on a low-fat diet, you metabolize all 7 alcohol calories per gram.

I did enjoy the last line from the submitted article:

>Perhaps because of his diet, or perhaps because genetics is a crapshoot, Robert Cameron enjoyed his roast duck and Burgundy until the advanced age of 98.

lol

The book is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Drinking-Mans-Diet-Robert-Cameron/dp/091868465X

u/thatool · 12 pointsr/keto

Fun fact: there was a low carb diet published in 1964 called "The Drinking Man's Diet: How to Lose Weight with a Minimum of Willpower" however soon afterwards was when Ancel Keys popularised the anti-fat movement and the author became distressed that he might be hurting people.

u/sputnikorbust · 8 pointsr/OldSchoolCool

I need that book asap.

u/ashsimmonds · 7 pointsr/keto

Resident drunk checking in...

Yes and no, mostly depending on how much you have to lose.

I had 20kg/40lbs to shed, 75% of that came off in 2-3 months effortlessly, the whole time I was drinking excessively on an almost daily basis.

Hit a plateau a month or so ago, I'm content with my weight, but will be contenter with another 5kg/10lbs gone. Having said that - I last broke the plateau by not drinking for two days, then having a massive bender weekend on all kinds of carby drinks and snacks.

Edit to add TL;DR - The Drinking Man's Diet - 1964 - basically the original low-carb/keto drunk lifestyle

u/guyjeb · 3 pointsr/keto

On that diet You get energy from 50-75g carbs and high fats and high protein.

Thats still low carb, just not Keto. A lot more like "The Drinking Mans Diet" from the 1960's

u/drewbeta · 3 pointsr/drunk

I started the drinking man's diet, which evolved into lazy keto. I lost 75lbs in under a year, and the diet causes you to become a complete lightweight, so you get drunk faster.

u/dearcleanthatup · 2 pointsr/keto
u/buckfuzzfeed · 1 pointr/TheDickShow

You're about 60 years late https://www.amazon.com/Drinking-Mans-Diet-Robert-Cameron/dp/091868465X

This guy is a true dickhead, priced the book at $1 and sold millions of copies

u/MeatAndBourbon · 1 pointr/keto

http://www.amazon.com/Drinking-Mans-Diet-Robert-Cameron/dp/091868465X

This 50 year old book says "Yes!", and makes you appreciate how long keto's been around, because it was already at least a century old when this book was published.