The Imbalance Of The Balanced Diet
	Like all other branches of science, nutrition has progressed at an intensified rate since the Second World War. New machines and methods-particularly the use of radioactive isotopes and 'tagging' so that the activities of given substances within the body can be actually traced-together with vastly increased armies of trained investigators, are building up an enormous amount of data never before available. The jet-age opportunity for swift access to hitherto little-known peoples and their alien ways of life has opened up new research roads. From the main highway of the 'Basic Seven', exploratory offshoots are being made, as we learn that people-like the Eskimos and like various tribes in Africa and remote sections of India-have maintained excellent health, physique, and morale on all-meat diets. (According to the Canadian ethnologist Jenness and to others who have lived among the Eskimos, their appearance of rotundity is due largely to their garments, not to a prevalence of excess fat.) And while the Grenfell Mission of 1892 found that scurvy, rickets, and other deficiency diseases were certainly not unknown among the Eskimos of Labrador, later investigations suggested that these problems followed upon the introduction to these groups of the white man's more agrarian diet. Obviously these nutritional byways are not conclusive. But they suggest that continued investigation may one day throw new light on our present concept of the 'balanced' diet. In the meantime, it has been demonstrated that human beings can manage very well when the proportion of carbohydrate to fat and protein in their diet is taken far below hitherto accepted levels--and that for people who cannot control their overweight problem in other ways, carbohydrate control is the answer. Carbohydrate control-not elimination. Weight-watchers who have become sensibly sceptical of extremist fads will observe that this diet is not an all-or-nothing crash programme. it offers fewer carbohydrates, not no carbohydrates. it offers you a full, satisfying diet. There is no danger of the total collapse of will that so often sends the low-calorie dieter on frantic refrigerator raids, because being well supplied with slowly digested fats and proteins, you never become that hungry. Further, it offers substantial amounts of food that are worth eating, with taste possibilities bounded only by the cook's time and/or talent. No diet has ever offered more-or as much. SCEPTICS: NOW HEAR THIS But perhaps most important to the chronic weight-watcher is that this diet works in two ways. It works not only to take weight off, but to keep it off. Once you have trained yourself to recognize high carbohydrate foods (and the only surprises here are in the areas of certain fruits and vegetables which we are not accustomed to thinking of in these terms), and to restrict them so that your diet delivers no more than 60 carbohydrate grams per day, you have adopted a painless, self-propelled eating pattern which will control your weight for good. Try it. People will soon be saying to you what was said recently to a pretty teen-ager, a veteran of low-calorie diets which had offered only temporary results, by an envious friend: 'Gosh, Emily-this time you've retained your weight loss!' Next: How You Can Benefit By Low Carbohydrate Diet