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Chapter Eight

OTHER DIETS

OTHER DIETS

In recent years, fashions have appeared in the artistic arena regarding food and diet. Many famous artists have begun following diets named after them and developed for them by nutrition and diet specialists or by themselves. These diets have become famous and newspapers have written about them, to the point that some famous restaurants in Europe and America have adopted these diets and put them on their menus. Some famous stars have their favorite foods that are famous for them and named after them, such as Louis Armstrong's toast, named after the famous and deceased jazz singer and musician Armstrong, which consists of toasted bread with a piece of meat (a wick) fried with mushrooms with cream sauce and red wine.

As for Frank Sinatra (Frankie Boy), he is famous for his salads. There is a salad in California called (Sinatra Salat) which is composed of tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, and pickled pickles with white sheep cheese and olives stuffed with almonds with spices and Italian dressing made of oil, vinegar, lemon juice, garlic and crushed onions.

The following, dear reader, is a review of the diets of a number of world celebrities.

MARIA CALAS'S DIET

Maria Callas, the world-famous opera singer of Greek origin, who sang in the greatest opera houses in the world of classical singing for long hours on opera stages, which is an art that requires strength And the skin, so singers eat food that gives them strength and compensates for the effort exerted during training or singing performance. It was said that the famous singer Mario Lanza loved food above all else and ate voraciously, which led to his death. On that day, the New York Times wrote that the world's top singer Mario Lanza committed slow suicide through food.

Classical music and opera singing have a specific audience of connoisseurs who enjoy singing and classical music not only with their ears but also with their eyes because they want to see the stars of this art with an elegant body. In New York, nutritionist Willie Velia developed an ideal nutritional program for the famous star Maria Callas, who used to sing on the stages of the New York Metropolitan Opera House, to provide her with the necessary energy while maintaining her fitness. This nutritional program, which was in the form of a diet, was transferred to many singing stars in the world, and some restaurants in New York City presented it under the name Metropolitan. Opera Diet

Maria Callas's meal consists of three meals a day. Here, dear reader, is an example of one day's meals:

Breakfast:

A cup of coffee with milk and honey with a piece of toasted brown bran bread with a little butter and a mixed fruit salad

Lunch:

A piece of lean veal weighing 125 grams, boiled with a piece of grilled fish 200 grams and a plate of mixed salad without oil.
Dinner:

125 grams of grilled chicken breast with a plate of boiled spinach with a grilled onion and a piece of grilled tomato, then a piece of watermelon or a piece of seasonal fruit, then coffee or tea without sugar.

Barbara Streisand's Diet

BARBARA STREISAND'S DIET

Barbara Streisand, the star of the American show business and singing, despite her advanced age, still maintains her wonderful figure that many movie stars in the world envy. When asked about the secret of her slimness, she answered that she has her own diet, which is summarized in living twice or two days a week on yogurt mixed with fruits and without sugar, amounting to 500 grams of yogurt without fat with 500 grams of different fruits.

Elizabeth Taylor's Diet

ELIZABETH TAYLOR'S DIET

The world famous movie star, a film critic said that she can change her body from fat to thin and vice versa, as quickly as she changes her husbands and lovers. It is known that she has two special diets, the zero diet and the fruit diet. The zero diet is limited to drinking water and taking vitamin pills only for 10 days every 50 days. As for the fruit diet, she drinks fresh fruit juice only for two days a week, at a rate of 1500 grams.

Sophia Loren's Diet

SOPHIA LOREN'S DIET

Who among us does not know Sophia Loren, that Italian and international movie star with the sexy chest, despite her age of 55 years, and she still maintains her harmonious body, and she revealed the secret of her slimness and the secret of her diet, which is called the Neapolitan diet or the Naples diet, named after the city in which she was born, the city of Naples. Her diet consists of eating a very large plate of mixed salad with vinegar, spices, and lots of green thyme, mint, and pepper.

Green and without oil, with a little spaghetti prepared with tomato paste and white chicken meat without fat, and her favorite fruit is kiwi because it contains a high percentage of vitamin C and a little red wine.

DUTCH QUEEN BIATRIX'S DIET

In a new book published about the life of the Dutch Queen Beatrix, the author of the book (Martin Kiefer) stated that the Dutch Queen makes a great effort in her daily life to prevent obesity, which she inherited from her grandmother. In addition to the special fitness sport (aerobics) that she practices daily for about 40 minutes, she follows a diet written for her by the famous nutritionist Dr. Joe DeKock. Here is an example of three meals for one day:

Breakfast:

Two cups of black coffee without milk or sugar. One boiled egg with one apple eaten with its peel, and 100 grams of Dutch Gouda cheese with a fat content of 18.

Lunch:

100 grams of grilled lean lamb, veal or beef, half a small glass of sherry, one grilled tomato and a 100-gram piece of cheese with a fat content of 18, with a 125-gram piece of mango.

Dinner: 150 grams of veal cooked in the Dutch way with 150 grams of African pineapple and half a small glass of her favorite drink (sherry), and before bed half a glass of skim milk.

The diet of the famous writer and novelist George Bernard Shaw

BERNARD SHOW'S DIET

The famous satirical novelist George Bernard Shaw was a vegetarian because he lived only on vegetables, fruits, milk and all kinds of dairy products. He loved legumes, grains, vegetables, fruits and their juice. He was very thin and lived for many years and died at the age of 85. He had his own way of eating, which some people took from him and called the Shaw diet. The following is an example of one day's meals:

Breakfast:

One cup of coffee with milk sweetened with sugarcane juice syrup with one banana and one orange or a piece of grapefruit.

Lunch

150 grams of boiled potatoes with butter and a little spice and pepper with lettuce salad and types of fresh green spices in it and finally an apple with its peel.

Dinner:

Pasta made from whole bran flour cooked with Italian Marzola cheese, 15 grams of nuts, 20 grams of seedless sultanas with a glass of full-fat milk.

When Bernard Shaw, who was 80 years old, was asked about the secret of his health, fitness and activity, he replied: I have been accustomed for many years, as I got older, to reduce the amount of food and improve its quality. It is said that Winston Churchill, who was Prime Minister of Britain, invited him one day to get to know him, and when he came and entered the large hall where Churchill was sitting, and Churchill was short and fat, Churchill took the initiative to talk to him and asked him: Are you really Mr. Bernard Shaw? When one sees you, one would think that the English people are suffering from famine. He answered him in a sarcastic tone that Shaw was known for:

And whoever sees you, Mr. Churchill, knows the reason for this famine.

Liquid Food Diet

LIQUID FOOD DIET

Many types of liquid food have appeared in American and European pharmacies for use during dieting in order to lose weight under many names. It is a liquid substance packaged in one-liter bottles and is called liquid diet. This liquid is made from milk and some plant foods and has an acceptable taste. Initially, this liquid was made for athletes and contains all types of essential nutrients, mineral salts, vitamins and cellulose fibers derived from wheat bran.

Composition of this food:

Protein 75 g - Carbohydrates 75 g - Fat 30 g. The total of these materials is 1000 calories per day. The follower of this diet drinks one bottle per day and in certain proportions three or four times a day. This liquid food can be eaten once or about twice a week, as it is harmless.