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We are lucky I hope you know that. We live in a time where you can be terribly obese and nobody cares, in fact I think you can get some government welfare for that.
It is a truly glorious age we live in; just six hundred years ago things were much different. Back in the time of the Roman Empire dieting habits were much different.
These people knew how to eat they would eat for days at a time. Whenever they needed more room in their stomachs, they would just go regurgitate their food so they could go eat some more.
We call this bulimia now, and it is sort of frowned upon. Back then it was normal, they wouldn't ever notice that it cause heart problems, poor bone density and rotted teeth, it was only a natural part of their roman indulgence.
Speaking of indulgences, this brings us to Graham's diet. This is a diet for your soul.
Pastor Graham thought that foods that were especially lush in taste and flavor created immoral thoughts and would lead to terrible things like sex. So his plan was to live on a diet of plain crackers with no taste whatsoever so to alleviate himself from all temptations of the world.
Most people realized he was crazy, but then there were those who bought into his crazy philosophy. I suspect they were worried they might lose their vision, get some spinal disease, or suffer from epilepsy if they couldn't cleanse their mind of the rampant perverted thoughts that bombarded their weak souls daily.
Most of us won't have to worry about ever coming close to trying the pastors diet plan, one because we couldn't stand to eat such boring food all the time and two because we don't care about moral values. A much more popular and realistic diet, that I'm sure we have all tried at least for a few weeks, is the alcohol diet.
In 1087 in the dank streets of England William the congerour got fat. He decided to lose weight, but he was going to do it the best way he could think of.
His plan was to drink alcohol straight until he wasn't fat anymore. Sounds reasonable, you are not actually eating so you won't gain mass...right?
Then if you are blasted drunk all the time, you aren't going to care about the hunger from not eating. The only problem is his reasoning was not exactly correct.
Common liquor has about 4 grams of carbs, 4 grams of protein, 7 grams of alcohol, and 9 grams of fat. So poor fat William might have just as well been drinking grease. Destry Masterson is a fitness expert who publishes articles about treadmills such as http://www.nordictrackcoupons.com and many others, she recommends them for your exercise equipment needs.
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