there was a 19th  diet called Mariotts diet for obesity is the text of
this available

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 11 Jan 2004 12:42 PST

When you say "There was a 19th diet," do you mean "There was a 19th Century diet"?

If you can recall where (and approximately when) you learned of this
diet's existence, that might provide a clue. How certain are you of
the spelling "Mariotts"?

Any additional details would be helpful. The more you can tell us, the
better we'll be able to assist you.

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Clarification of Question by sholto-ga on 11 Jan 2004 16:01 PST

my uncle who was a doctor introduced me to it about 20years ago.It was
essentially a diet of lean meat and fish fresh fruit and boiled or
steamed vegetables.My belief is that it was from the nineteenth
century.I am not sure of the spelling of Marriot(t)

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Request for Question Clarification by darrel-ga on 21 Jan 2004 13:40 PST

How sure are you of the name of this diet? I've found a number of
diets from the 19th Century but none that come close to the name
marriott. could it be "Banting"?

darrel-ga

I have not been able to find information on a diet plan that contains
any variant of the name "Marriott." You might be interested in William
Banting's 19th Century diet, which is often viewed as the ancestor of
the Atkins Diet and other low-carb plans:

http://www.westonaprice.org/know_your_fats/banting.html

http://www.lowcarb.ca/corpulence/index.html

sholto, 

There is a nutritionist, Dr. Bernadette Marriott, who published
studies and reports about nutrition for the NIH [National Institutes
of Health]. She may have published something in the late eighties. She
has published in the early 90's and since. I think she is on the board
of the Burroughs Welcome Foundation. I don't find any thing so it may
have been in a journal before Pubmed existed.