Cambridge Diet Quotes

The journal articles that Willett’s team wrote to establish the pyramid were not subject to the peer-review process that scientific papers normally undergo; they had only one reviewer, not the usual two to three. This was because the papers were published, along with the entire 1993 Cambridge conference proceedings, in a special supplement of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition funded by the olive oil industry.

should do the Dukan diet,” Moni chimed in. “My sister did it before her wedding.” She snapped her fingers. “Dropped eight pounds in three weeks, and she was already a two.” “That’s the diet Kate Middleton used,” Love Bracelet said, and we all acknowledged the Duchess of Cambridge with a moment of silence. Kate Middleton looked so hungry on her wedding day it had to be commended. “Let’s go to brunch,” I sighed. This conversation was making me wish I was alone in my kitchen, deepest

So I was surprised to learn that actually most of Japan’s current food culture was invented very recently—in living memory, in fact. Barak Kushner, who is professor of East Asian History at Cambridge, has explained that, until the 1920s, Japanese cooking was just “not very good”—fresh fish was eaten only once a week, the diet was dangerously low in protein, and even the techniques of stewing or stir-frying weren’t used. Life expectancy was forty-seven. He told the food writer Bee Wilson: “Japanese culture is neither timeless nor unchanging.” It was only when Japan’s imperialist government was creating an army to attack other parts of Asia that they were disturbed that the population ate so badly and was so weak, and a new food culture began to be invented, quite consciously, to produce healthier soldiers. After the defeat of Japan in the Second World War, when the country was in ruins, the new democratic government realized that if they didn’t have a healthy population, they would have nothing, and they stepped up this transformation. “The Japanese only really started eating what we think of as Japanese food in the years after the Second World War,” Bee says. “Instead of being dispirited by the way the Japanese eat, we should be encouraged by it. Japan shows the extent to which food habits evolve.