[Sca-cooks] The Banana Diet

Susan Lin susanrlin at gmail.com
Tue Mar 2 12:51:27 PST 2010


That's what I thought.  And the movie "The Road to Wellville" was loosely
based on their story.

Shoshanna

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:05 PM, <yaini0625 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Wasn't the Kellogg estate a health resort?
> Aelina
>
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> One can't ignore the famous Doctor Kellogg or his brother.
>
> They certainly predate 1924.
>
> Then there's Sylvester Graham.
>
> And for a real treat try the writings of Thomas Tryon [September 6,
> 1634 – August 21, 1703]
> who wrote extensively on diet and advocated vegetarianism. Ben
> Franklin read and endorsed
> Tryon's practices at various times.
>
> Johnnae
>
> On Mar 1, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mar 1, 2010, at 2:35 AM, H Westerlund-Davis wrote:
> >
> >> "The famous banana diet was recommended by a Dr. Haas in 1924 and
> >> it became the only diet until the introduction of the gluten free
> >> diet.
> >
> > Maybe it's too early in the morning, but I'm having a lot of trouble
> > figuring out what this sentence means... is it suggesting that
> > people didn't follow other regimens (not counting the broad spectrum
> > of variation you find due to regional and cultural practice)?
> >
> > Adamantius
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