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BREAKFAST
6 halves canned or stewed apricots (heavy syrup poured off)
Black coffee
LUNCH
Broiled hamburger, 2 patties
Generous lettuce, tomato, and cucumber salad without dressing
1/2 glasses skim milk
Coffee or tea
DINNER
Vitamin Cocktail or grapefruit juice
Lean steak, broiled
1/2 cup string beans
Raw celery, 4 stalks
Coffee or tea
SECOND DAY
BREAKFAST
1 egg, boiled or poached
1 thin slice whole-wheat bread or toast
Coffee
LUNCH
1 beef frankfurter, boiled
Asparagus, 8-10 stalks
1/2 glass skim milk or buttermilk
Coffee or tea
DINNER
1 cup clear consomme
Liver, beef or calf, large serving, pan broiled
1/2 cup cauliflower
1/2 sliced tomato
Coffee or tea
THIRD DAY
BREAKFAST
Vitamin Cocktail or tomato juice
Coffee
LUNCH
Lean broiled steak
1/2cup string beans
Shredded cabbage
1/2 glass skim milk
Coffee or tea
DINNER
1 cup bouillon
2 lamb chops, broiled, lean meat only
1/2 cup stewed celery
Mixed green salad: endive, onion, lettuce, green pepper, radish,
cucumber, to suit
Coffee or tea
FOURTH DAY
BREAKFAST
1 egg, boiled or poached
1 thin slice whole-wheat bread or toast
Coffee
LUNCH
Lean hamburger patty, broiled
1/2 cup spinach, broccoli, or beet greens
Raw celery, 4 stalks
1/2 glass skim milk
DINNER
1 cup bouillon
Broiled chicken (lean meat of 1/2 broiler)
Tossed salad: lettuce, tomato, cucumber, radish, chopped parsley
1 sliced orange
Coffee or tea
FIFTH DAY
BREAKFAST
1 egg, boiled or poached
1 thin slice whole-wheat toast or bread
Coffee
LUNCH
Poached egg on spinach
1/2 cup cauliflower
1/2 glass skim milk
Coffee or tea
DINNER
1 cup clear consomme
Liberal serving of fish with lemon (Haddock, sole, halibut, cod, whitefish, etc., but not oily fishes such as salmon or tuna)
Raw salad: shredded cabbage, grated carrot, chopped parsley, and
green pepper-lemon juice or vinegar
Coffee or tea
SIXTH DAY
BREAKFAST
1 sliced orange
Coffee
LUNCH
Lean steak, broiled
Shredded cabbage
1/2 cup string beans
1/2 glass skim milk
Coffee or tea
DINNER
Vitamin Cocktail or tomato juice
2 lamb chops, broiled, lean meat only
Asparagus, 8-10 stalks
Coffee or tea
SEVENTH DAY
BREAKFAST
Vitamin Cocktail or grapefruit juice 1 egg, boiled or poached
Coffee
LUNCH
1 cup consomme
Serving lean roast beef, or
1/2 breast of chicken
1/2 cup broccoli or beet greens
Sliced tomato on lettuce
Coffee or tea
DINNER
2 slices lean beef from luncheon roast
1/2 cup string beans
1/2 glass skim milk
2 halves canned peaches (or 1 fresh)
Coffee or tea
EIGHTH DAY
BREAKFAST
1 egg, boiled or poached
1 thin slice whole-wheat bread or toast
Coffee
LUNCH
1 egg, boiled or poached
1/2 cup stewed tomatoes
1 cup shredded cabbage with chopped parsley and green pepper
vinegar or lemon juice
1/2 glass skim milk
Coffee or tea
DINNER
Vitamin Cocktail or orange juice
2 broiled veal chops, lean meat only
1/2 cup stewed celery
1/2 grapefruit
Coffee or tea
NINTH DAY
BREAKFAST
grapefruit
Coffee
LUNCH
Broiled hamburger, 2 patties
1 cup boiled cabbage
1/2 glass skim milk
DINNER
Vitamin Cocktail or tomato juice
Liver, beef or calf, large serving, pan broiled
1/2 cup spinach or beet greens
Raw celery, 4 stalks
Coffee or tea
TENTH DAY
BREAKFAST
grapefruit
Coffee
LUNCH
1 cup consomme
Serving lean roast beef, or
1/2 breast of chicken
1/2 cup broccoli or beet greens
Sliced tomato on lettuce
Coffee or tea
DINNER
2 slices lean beef from luncheon roast
1/2 cup string beans
1/2 glass skim milk
2 halves canned peaches (or 1 fresh)
Coffee or tea
WEIGH YOURSELF TOMORROW
MORNING
Over equal periods of time; the Miracle Diet should reduce you just as swiftly as out-and-out fasting. And you'll be much happier about the whole thing. When the body is completely starved for longer than a brief period, it slows down its metabolism in order to conserve its substance - whereas your object, as a weight reducer, is to use up that substance. Eventually, of course, a starved body must begin to draw upon its reserves of flesh and the breakdown of these substances results in accumulations of acid products that do not have sufficient minerals and buffers to neutralize them because there has been no food intake. It is unlikely that a one-day fast could injure you, if you are in normal health and the idea has any appeal, but the benefits (aside from psychological ones) are dubious from any long-term point of view and physicians who favor rapid reducing diets do not prescribe fasts.
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