20 Facts About Richard Mackarness

Guy Richard Godfrey Mackarness was a British psychiatrist and low-carbohydrate diet writer.

Richard Mackarness is best known for his book Eat Fat and Grow Slim, published in 1958.

Richard Mackarness received his education from Lancing College and the Westminster Teaching Hospital.

Richard Mackarness later left general practice to become an assistant psychiatrist at Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke.

Richard Mackarness was an advocate of clinical ecology and was influenced by the research of Theron Randolph on food allergies.

Richard Mackarness developed a controversial environmental approach to psychiatric disease.

Richard Mackarness's ideas were not accepted by the medical community.

Richard Mackarness met Theron Randolph in the 1950s and applied his methods to treat patients with mental illness at Basingstoke Hospital.

Richard Mackarness treated patients at Basingstoke Hospital for food and chemical allergies mostly on an outpatient basis.

Richard Mackarness was a founding member of the Clinical Ecology Group, which later became the British Society for Allergy and Environmental Medicine.

Richard Mackarness stated he was allergic to eggs and coffee so removed them from his diet.

Richard Mackarness avoided everything made from flour and processed sugar.

Richard Mackarness believed that hidden food allergies from "wrong foods" such as sugar cause violent behavior.

Richard Mackarness died of a stroke on 18 March 1996 in Mornington, Australia.

Richard Mackarness authored the book Eat Fat and Grow Slim, which exposed what he termed the "calorie fallacy" and proposed a low-carbohydrate "Stone Age" diet of fat and protein.

Richard Mackarness took influence from the ideas of William Banting.

Richard Mackarness opposed the consumption of cow's milk, grain, soy and sugar.

Richard Mackarness authored Not All in the Mind in 1976, which argued that common foods such as coffee, eggs, milk and white flour may make people mentally and physically ill.

Richard Mackarness recommended his Stone Age diet in the book and stated that humans have not evolved to consume foods from the rise of agriculture such as milk and wheat resulting in hidden food allergies that can cause chronic health problems.

Richard Mackarness had personally met these doctors in 1958 and termed them "anti-cereal doctors".