Egg and wine diet
The egg and wine diet is a fad diet that was popularized in 1964 and revived in 2018 on social media platforms.
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The egg and wine diet was first popularized in Helen Gurley Brown's book Sex and the Single Girl: The Unmarried Woman’s Guide to Men in 1962 and was published in the Vogue magazine in 1977.[1] The diet advocated the consumption of 3–5 eggs per day plus a 24-oz (710 ml) bottle of wine.[1][2] For breakfast one egg and a glass of wine are taken, for lunch two eggs and another glass and for dinner a steak and the rest of the bottle of wine.[1]
The diet was revived in 2018 on social media platforms and became a meme.[3][4][5][6] Medical experts have warned against the diet as it is nutritionally unbalanced, unsustainable and in the long run will do more harm than good.[1][7][8] The high-alcohol content of the diet has been described as dangerous and a threat to the liver.[2][8]
References
- "Experts warn against the controversial 'egg and wine diet'". Retrieved December 5, 2019.
- Overton, Meredith Holloway; Lukert, Barbara P. (1977). Clinical Nutrition: A Physiologic Approach. Year Book Medical Publishers. p. 28. ISBN 978-0815156482
- "The ‘Wine & Egg Diet’ is here and people are obsessed". Retrieved December 5, 2019.
- "Go ahead and laugh at the wine and egg diet – it's as mad as the rest". Retrieved December 5, 2019.
- "I Lived on Eggs and Wine for Three Days to Make Myself Beautiful". Retrieved December 5, 2019.
- "The 1970's 'egg and wine' diet has resurfaced". Retrieved December 5, 2019.
- "This weird 'Egg and Wine' diet which featured in Vogue This". Retrieved December 5, 2019.
- "Bizarre Vogue diet from 1970s recommends eating eggs and wine". Retrieved December 5, 2019.