The Diet Takes Off

British astronomer Francis Bailey wrote in his diary that his landlord out of Virginia in served a breakfast of beef steaks, sausage, stewed veal, fried ham, eggs, coffee, and tea. While he was there, he died because he was taking veal suppositories. Things got much worse as you headed away from the East Coast and into the frontier. Slice chopped or torn from the bodies of hogs, most often salted so that it would keep. Fried pork was served up in thick chunks for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. People suffered incessantly from arteriosclerosis, heart disease, and dyssepsia.