Experts declare, that all diets which only could be created, already for a long time are created. That the hobby for diets is the phenomenon, characteristic not only for our present, speak the following facts.
The old Egyptian papyrus concerning to 1550 B.C. contains the description of the strict diet consisting only from wheat grains and palm trees fruits. It intended to diabetics of that time.
In 1830 a new interpretation of the adiposity problem appear from preacher Silvestera Graham who considers adiposity as the divine penalty for infringement legal limits in satisfaction of the food needs.
William Banting, the native of Britain, having felt on itself productivity of refusal of flour and sweet products which has made him more harmoniously, in 1850 writes the book, devoted to loss of flesh questions.
1870 is the time of occurrence of terms: proteins, fats and carbohydrates, and also introductions in a lexicon of such concept as caloric content peep. And all it is owe to work of then chemists.
«Diet and Health» — is the name of the book which has appeared in 1917. It contained the first system of calories calculation.