Chubby Mommy

I give it one, two months tops before someone decides to turn this notion into a full-fledged diet book sales gimmick:

“During war time if you noticed the apples in the bowl were getting a bit wrinkly, you stewed them,” Dr Stanton said. “Today you just chuck them out.” [...]

Meat was rationed to the equivalent of 900g a week, butter to 450g a fortnight; sugar to 900g a fortnight and tea to 450g every five weeks.

Converting to U.S. measurements, that amounts to:

Meat: 1.98 pounds
Butter: 0.49 pounds
Tea: Well, that’s calorie free. No worries on that one.

While that may seem like an awful lot of butter, consider that the “war time” they’re talking about was in 1940, long before hydrogenated oils, transfats or even olive oil was used in regular cooking. That 450 grams of butter? It’s the same 30 grams or less per day that Alli users are sticking with.