Following certain diet is one of the most severe and hardest challenges for people, including both males and females. Certainly, it is a fact of common knowledge that women refer to this method of losing weight a way more often, then men, but still a problem of bearing constant pinching yourself in food stuff and calories works in both ways. The key thing is that there were no women in inventing or contributing to a diet method during its history, starting from ancient times.

There are some assumptions that Pythagoras and Hippocrates were the first scholars to introduce diets in addition to their purely scientific discoveries. In particular, Pythagoras’s diet has not lost its popularity even in modern times, which was introduced due to scholar’s suffering from intestinal gases; his diet excludes consumption of food of animal origin and beans. The Hippocrates diet, which is described in details in his similarly-named work, emphasizes rationalism in food choice, recommending staying away from uncooked meal. He also stated that appropriate and useful food is preconditioned by place of residence, profession, state of health, age and season.

However, during Middle Ages diets were less popular, as far as human fatness defined his or her financial prosperity. Therefore, on this historical stage there were no talking about losing weight following diets, but there were cases, when diets were used in medical purposes, as in ancient Greece and Rome. Particularly, dietary regime was mainly associated with royal houses and families, the members of which could let themselves being choosy in food range unlike the rest of people. French royalties succeeded in this a lot. Doctors of King Louis XIV were the inventors of milk-vegetable diet, which was prescribed for a monarch to cope with paleness and bad digestion. During days when Louis XIV refused to eat meat, the court was obliged to do the same (apparently, vegetarianism was likely to rock all royal kitchens!). The first hints on attempts to keep fit were performed by King Louis XV, who also battled of the bulge precisely before important occasions, hunting or acting in ballet play. His ration usually consisted with red wine and egg yolks (sometimes 15-20 per day).

In the 19th century the biggest fame in diet idea distribution was obtained by Sylvester Graham, a true dietary reformer and supporter of food strictness. Probably, he is the person blamed a lot by contemporary women for diet method and its severe rules. Though, if Sylvester Graham could guess that his idea would be used in weight loss purposes solely, he would roll over in own grave! The thing is that Sylvester Graham was an American preacher, who adhered to a theory that immense food consumption has negative effect on health and leads to obesity. Moreover, gluttony has always been considered one of the worst sins! In this regard, Graham actively inspired his parishioners that food is harmful to a body and promoted lean diet. The main pillar of his idea was purification of human mind through a dietary regime. In 1832 he published the related discourse.

Speaking about the last idea of diet appropriation, it has also facilitated modern dietarians. However, Graham’s method was of pure religious aspects, it still covered a thought that diets should be used in struggling with obesity. New inventions and patents have been issued and new methods for supplementing diets are offered constantly. The religious context has been erased, which acknowledges beauty as useless and non-everlasting eternal deception. On the contrary, pursuit of beauty have led a way to diets’ propagation in modern age.

Natalia Krasnyanskaya, the author for Patentsbase.com

Natalia Krasnyanskaya, the author for http://Patentsbase.com

Author Bio: Natalia Krasnyanskaya, the author for Patentsbase.com

Category: Food and Drinks
Keywords: diets, dietary regime, Sylvester Graham diet, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, King Louis XIV, weight loss