Light on Your Toes, Heavy on Amusement (A little Nostalgia)
You went to South Beach, believed in Atkins, and joined Weight Watchers, but all without success. If you’ve tried every diet under the sun, then why not step back in time with slimming books that inspired your mother or even your grandma. Authors have been helping women look trim since the 1920s but an explosion of diet books in 1950s and 1960s paved the way for today’s bestsellers. It is possible to find and buy countless long forgotten books on dieting and slimming from bygone eras. Here are some collectible titles that are light on your wallet, but heavy on amusement from bygone areas.
Rare Books Weight loss that lasts
Long before Weight Watchers, America had MacLevy’s Slenderizing Salons. Aside from diets and exercises, Monty’s1942 book also contains deportment guides for young women and is illustrated by over 100 photographs of ladies wearing heeled lace-up boots as they gently go for the burn.
Rare Books Pounds Off
Martinis and Whipped Cream
“Eat as much as you're eating now, eat well, eat even between meals” but cut out the carbohydrates was the advice in 1966 from a book that sold well into the next decade.
