Yesterday, my sister-in-law gave me a sheet she copied while reading David McCullough's biography of Harry Truman.
Truman was the thirty-third president of the United States. In his seventh year in office, when he was 67, he was described as a "picture of health." He walked two miles almost every morning, followed by an ounce of bourbon. In his diary he wrote the following about his diet in the early 1950s:
I eat no bread but one piece of toast at breakfast, no butter, no sugar, no sweets. Usually have fruit, one egg, a strip of bacon and half a glass of skimmed milk; liver and bacon or sweetbreads or ham or fish and spinach and another nonfattening vegetable for lunch with fruit for dessert. For dinner I have a fruit cup, steak, a couple of nonfattening vegetables and an ice, orange, pinapple, or raspberry�So--I maintain my waist line and can wear suits bought in 1935.
Not sure what a "nonfattening" vegetable is�Truman eventually died in 1972 at the age of 88.
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