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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent three days camping with two young friends on the slopes of nearby Grizzly Peak. "We didn't see a solitary soul." says Keys. "Just hiked and ate. Three breakfasts a day-Aunt Jemima pancakes, dried prunes and bacon. Not too bad a diet. You can eat anything for a few days...
Already his present height (5 ft. 7½ in.) at 13, Ancel "sort of stopped growing." But he did not step eating. ''I was always ready to eat," he says. "Chinatown was wonderful: an egg roll and two bowls of chow fan for 40?. A little concentrated on the calories, perhaps." Precociously peripatetic at 15, Ancel spent the summer in a lumber camp, left school midway through the year to shovel bat manure in an Oatman, Ariz. cave. "Great fun," says Keys. "I slept out in the desert with the other desert rats. I'd hate...
...ritual, played to soft Brahms and candlelight, that often lasts for two hours. At first, recalls Keys, Margaret was not much of a cook: "She fed me - but she was pretty inexperienced." She learned; the walls of kitchen and den are lined with 254 cookbooks, not counting copies of Eat Well and Stay Well, for which Mrs. Keys supplied 200 tasty recipes. The Keyses do not eat "carving meat" - steaks, chops, roasts - more than three times a week, and a single entree normally is not repeated more than once every three weeks. For cocktails they have martinis or negronis...
...something he likes, to preserve his health. Yet, says Dr. Keys, that is exactly what many Americans should do. The average blood cholesterol count among middle-aged (40-60) U.S. men, says Keys, is an uncomfortable 240. "People should know the facts," he says. "Then if they want to eat themselves fo death, let them...
...diet recommendations are fairly simple: "Eat less fat meat, fewer eggs and dairy products. Spend more time on fish, chicken, calves' liver, Canadian bacon, Italian food, Chinese food, supplemented by fresh fruits, vegetables and casseroles." Adds Keys: "Nobody wants to live on mush. But reasonably low-fat diets can provide infinite variety and aesthetic satisfaction for the most fastidious-if not the most gluttonous-among us." On such fare, Gourmet Keys keeps his own weight at a moderate 155, his cholesterol count at a comfortable...