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Foreword BY SIR JOHN MILLS CBE

I am delighted to know that the Hay diet is being resuscitated after all these years. I have a copy of the original book, which my sister, Annette, gave me over 40 years ago, and on the flyleaf is written ‘John Mills’ Bible. Please do not remove’.

In 1942 I was invalided out of the Army with a man-size duodenal ulcer. In hospital I was fed on the usual ulcer-sufferer’s diet of rice puddings, mashed potatoes etc., and after three months there was no improvement. In fact, everything seized up and I became a walking zombie.

My sister, Annette, suggested to my wife, Mary, that she should put me on the Hay diet immediately. My first meal, which I remember with gratitude, was a thin minute steak, a large mixed salad and a small glass of claret. From that moment I have never looked back. After six weeks I was able to start work on a film.

Most diets, I find, are crashing bores, especially to hostesses, but if one follows the Hay diet it is possible to go to any dinner, public or private, and offend no one. All one has to remember is the principle of not mixing starch with protein. So one can wade one’s way happily through any festive occasion until it comes to the sweet course. I find the best way of coping with this is to leave the sweet untouched; the waiter will finally remove it, and nobody will have noticed.

I am sure that I could not, at my advanced age, cope with the work I have on hand at the moment if I were not a ‘believer’. I am playing eight shows a week in Little Lies at Wyndham’s Theatre, and the last act is a marathon. It is essential that I am really fit, and for this I rely practically entirely on the Hay diet. I am, incidentally, today wearing the jacket which I had made in 1938. It has not been let out, and I can still do the button up without any problem.

I wish the book every success, and I guarantee that anyone who follows the advice in it will derive the greatest of benefits from it.

Note

Sir John Mills wrote this Foreword for the first edition of Food Combining for Health in 1984. Since then he has continued his film and theatrical career, and at 95 has a cameo role in Stephen Fry’s film Bright Young Things.