The long read (7 April) fascinated me with its account of the life of John Yudkin,who played a sizable fraction in my middle years when I bought his Penguin book entitled This Slimming Business (which is not mentioned in the article). I still contain that very copy. I had no idea that Yudkin was vilified in the scientific press, ostracised by his college at the University of London and died a disappointed man.
I bought his book on the recommendation of a friend, and followed the low-carbohydrate diet it described and lost well over 2 stone in less than a year,ending up at 10 and a half stone in weight. I seem to remember I was partly motivated to lose weight by the arrival of our children who would be dependent on my income (and me staying alive, therefore!) for at least the next two decades. And the result of the Yudkin diet was basic to my reaching my present weight (10 stone), and when much,much later we became vegetarians and I lost another half stone.
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Source: theguardian.com