The Drinking Man’s Diet

While searching for a bodybuilding diet article that I had misplaced, I stumbled across a rather old Forbes article entitled, “Drinking Man’s Diet.”

Did you ever hear of a diet which was fun to follow? A diet which would let you have two martinis before lunch, and a thick steak generously spread with Sauce Béarnaise, so that you could make your sale in a relaxed atmosphere and go back to the office without worrying about having gained so much as an ounce?

This low-carb diet, published thirty years prior to Dr. Atkin’s famous treatise, was written and sold by Robert Cameron for a dollar and had a clever, UM-friendly twist.

[...] he adds the animating spark of genius–a corollary that will forever lift the Drinking Man’s Diet above all lesser low-carb regimens: Gin, vodka, rum, brandy, whiskies and other distilled spirits contain at most trace amounts of carbohydrate.

Judging some of the comments on the Amazon product page, the $5 re-release of the pamphlet contains some inconsistency which shouldn’t be present in a revised edition. However, the advice appears to be sound and has stood a literal test of time; the author is over 90 years old.

Let us drink to good health!

This article was written by healthy yet drunk Urban Monarch frequenter Jess Rutherford. If you are interested in writing a guest piece, contact ask@urbanmonarch.com.