The diet was hatched in Poland some 40 years ago by Dr. Jan Kwasniewski, who started developing it while working as a dietician for a military sanitarium in Ciechocinek, Poland. There he observed that many of his patients were sick, “not because of any pathogenic factors … but the result of one underlying cause – bad nutrition,” according to his English language “Optimal Nutrition” book. After experimenting on his family and himself, Kwasniewski concluded that the ideal nutritional combo came from eating three grams of fat for every one gram of protein and half a gram of carbohydrates.

Petro Dobromylskyj

Praise the Lard – indeed!