In a last ditch attempt to get the dieters to embrace personal discipline, the army's been called in. The term 'keep fit' originally meant 'fit for military purpose', from which all…
Matron wants stool samples from everyone and hands out bed pans. The samples are examined by a gastroenterologist. The point Sir Roy Strong is making is that there's a connection between…
Series 1 Episode 3
The Great Outdoors
(48 mins)[S]
Lady Devonport gets stark naked and invites everyone to strip off and join her. The Victorians recognised that fresh air and sunlight had therapeutic health benefits and by the 1920s the…
Offal's on the menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner, along with cold plunges and exercise in this second phase of Sir Roy Strong's historic slimming experiment.
The weigh-in results produce smiles all round. But the big question is, which plan works best? The Victorians are put on a forerunner of the Atkins diet, which consists almost entirely of…
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The Diets That Time Forgot
