Staple Diet Meant the Right Food, Not Major Surgery ; 1967 Campbell's Bluebird Horror, Dock Strike and Much More Made the News 43 Yearsago This Week

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LOOK through any woman's magazine this week and you'll find a diet - guaranteed, of course, to get rid of the pounds piled up over Christmas and the New Year.

But they hardly ever work, do they. Well, 70 years ago this week, on January 8, 1940, the whole of Wales went on a diet. It lasted for some seven years and yes, it really worked.

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Staple Diet Meant the Right Food, Not Major Surgery ; 1967 Campbell's Bluebird Horror, Dock Strike and Much More Made the News 43 Yearsago This Week

For that was the day rationing came to Wales and the country's men andwomen (and kids) have never been fitter at any time since. Or slimmer.

We should have remembered this a coupleofyearsagowhenthegovernment announced plans to combat obesity among children by stapling the stomachs of the one in seven who waddled like walruses instead of skipping like, well, like kids in 1940.

Ayear, incidentally,whensurgeonshad better things to do than remove layers of flab from grotesquely overweight women.

So welcome to 1940, not much of a HappyNewYear, though. Notwhen your ration book got you... t...

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