1. Don’t use sugars, including honey, syrup, jams, or candy.
2. Avoid fruits canned with sugar.
3. Avoid cakes, cookies, pies, puddings, and ice cream.
4. Avoid recipes using cornstarch or flour, such as gravies or cream sauces.
5. Avoid potatoes, macaroni, spaghetti, noodles, dried beans or peas.
6. Avoid fried foods.
7. Avoid sodas, including Coca-Cola, ginger ale, or root beer.
And obesity guidelines published in the 1951 textbook The Practice of Endocrinology recommended that unlimited amounts of meat, fish, birds, green vegetables, eggs, cheese, unsweetened fresh fruits (except bananas and