Wolfgang Lutz (doctor)
Wolfgang Lutz (born May 27, 1913 ; † September 17, 2010 ) was an Austrian doctor and nutritionist. The Lutz diet was named after him.
Life
Wolfgang Lutz studied medicine in Vienna and Innsbruck and received his habilitation in 1943 at the University of Vienna . After the Second World War he worked as an internist in Salzburg .
As he reports in his book Life Without Bread , he suffered a number of health problems over the years, including osteoarthritis of the hip, rheumatoid arthritis and fatigue syndrome. According to his statements, he was able to cure these complaints simply by switching to a low-carbohydrate diet with 6 bread units per day (approx. 72 grams of carbohydrates ) or stop their progression.
Between 1950 and 1960 he developed his Lutz diet , a predecessor to the Atkins diet published about ten years later . The Lutz diet is a high-fat and low- carbohydrate low-carb diet. Lutz then developed a general theory, which he published in various publications and in his book Life Without Bread in 1967.
Lutz received awards from the Royal Society of Medicine for his work and the Freedom of the City of London Award in 2007 and was Honorary Professor at the Metropolitan University of Dublin , Ireland. He had five children and had lived in London and Graz with his third wife Helen Paula for the past few decades.
Wolfgang Lutz claimed to have treated more than 10,000 patients with his diet during his 40 years of practice and cured numerous chronic diseases with it, including Crohn's disease , ulcerative colitis , stomach diseases , gout , metabolic syndrome , epilepsy and multiple sclerosis .
Fonts
- Life without bread. The Science of the Low Carbohydrate Diet. 16th edition. 2007, ISBN 3-88760-100-9 .
- The Lutz Diet. Very healthy and slim - finally without going hungry. 1986, ISBN 3-7205-1395-5 .
- Cholesterol and animal fats. An attempt at reassessment. Planegg 1988, ISBN 3-927290-01-7 .
- with Jürgen Schole: Regulatory Diseases: An attempt at an interdisciplinary analysis. Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-432-97141-9 .
- Sick stomach - sick intestines. 1995, ISBN 3-88760-080-0 ( online version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Valerie Waters: Wolfgang Lutz obituary . The Guardian . Retrieved January 29, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lutz, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1913 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th September 2010 |