Richard Mackarness | |
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| Born | 17 August 1916 Murree, India |
| Died | 18 March 1996 Mornington, Australia |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, writer |
Guy Richard Godfrey Mackarness (17 August 1916 – 18 March 1996)[1] was a British psychiatrist and low-carbohydrate diet writer. He is best known for his book Eat Fat and Grow Slim, published in 1958.[2] Mackarness was an early advocate of the Paleolithic diet and authored books on food allergies.[1][3]
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- ^ Roberts, Susan B; Das, Sai Krupa (2015). "One Strike against Low-Carbohydrate Diets". Cell Metabolism. 22 (3): 357–358. doi:10.1016/j.cmet.2015.07.022. PMID 26278053.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Smith, Matthew. (2015). Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy. Columbia University Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-231-16484-9 "Mackarness, who founded the first British National Health Service clinical ecology clinic in Basingstoke, pioneered the so-called Stone Age Diet, in the belief that humans had not evolved to consume foods, including wheat and milk, developed since Paleolithic times (in fact, today's weight-reduction version of Mackarness's Stone Age diet is called the "Paleo diet")."