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April
13, 2007:
Interesting Origins Of American Trends
Interview
with Martin Smith, author of Poplorica
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Mike
Carruthers:
Where
did this whole idea of losing weight and counting calories begin?
It began in 1918.
Martin Smith:
That idea of measuring food intake by calories began
with a woman named Lulu Hunt Peters in Los Angeles; she was a
physician, she wrote the first weight loss best seller.
Martin Smith,
co-author of the book Poplorica,
traced back some of the trends that shaped modern America.
She basically
said, this is the formula - if you follow it you will lose weight,
if you don't you won't.
Remember the
1968 film the "Night Of The Living Dead?" Well in
terms of scary movies, Martin says it is a breakthrough film.
Before that they
were always these Gothic sort of Frankenstein, dark shadows,
very melodramatic kind of horror movies. "Night Of The
Living Dead" was frighteningly realistic; these were just
normal people who became zombies. And it was really the first
of what became the "Friday the Thirteenth", "Halloween"
genre of "splatter" flicks.
The first electric
guitar, invented and played by Les Paul, didn't look like a
guitar, in fact it looked like a log and it was called "the
log."
He took it on
stage and he played a song and the audience didn't quite get
it. He went back the following week and he stuck a couple of
guitar wings on it, you know the sort of rounded part of the
guitar body, and took it back next week, played the same song,
and the crowd loved it. And he realized that it doesn't really
matter how an electric guitar sounds, you still have to make
it look like a guitar for people to get it.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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