Janet wrote:

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> > On 7/7/2014 7:49 PM, Cheryl wrote:
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> > > On 7/7/2014 7:23 PM, Tara wrote:
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> > >> http://www.theawl.com/2011/11/mock-g...es-of-the-war-
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> > >> rations-diet
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> > >> http://tinyurl.com/l5qn9ux
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> > >> http://1940sexperiment.wordpress.com/
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> > >> "There is a website, called The 1940s Experiment, whose proprietor,
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> > >> Carolyn Ekins, who was born and raised in the UK but now lives in Canada,
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> > >> is attempting to lose a hundred pounds by following a wartime rations
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> > >> diet, specifically made up of the foods eaten by the British public
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> > >> during World War II. "
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> > >> Tara
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> > > Interesting. I hope she has access to the veggies and fruit that those
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> > > who were forced into the rationing had access to, otherwise she is going
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> > > to get very sick from malnutrition.
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> > Diet via wartime rationing/deprivation. What a strange concept.
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> Not at all, the UK wartime weekly food rations per person, had been
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> carefully designed to provide a balanced diet with adequate nutrition.
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> As a result ofeating that way, by the end of the war the civilian
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> population were healthier than they had been before it. Obesity was
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> virtually unknown.

Rates of heart disease, hypertension, and even tooth decay were also way down...white bread was replaced by whole - meal "national loaf". An interesting site:

http://justhungry.com/the-supersizer...k-food-history

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Greg