Austria Hungry ; Dr Mayr Believed That Epsom Salts, Fruit Tea and No Dinner Was the Path to Good Health. Charlotte Eagar Returns to the Hills to See If His Clinic Can Work Its Old Magic

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Iknew I'd got fat again. My face was puffy, no one said how well I looked any more. And besides, none of my clothes fitted. One skirt might just have shrunk, but all of them, no. I was eating too much, and in a nervous, gobblegobble way. It was time I took myself back to the Mayr for an MOT; it wasn't cheap, but then neither was buying a whole new wardrobe. Besides, I wouldn't spend any money on anything else while I was there.

Three years ago I booked myself into the Mayr Health Spa Golfhotel on Lake Worthersee, in the foothills of the Austrian Alps. I was exhausted, had put on lots of weight and developed a horrible rash whenever I was in strong sunlight which had ruined a series of expensive holidays. An Austrian friend recommended this place she said it specialised in detoxification, and taught you how to eat so you never got fat again. She also said that it helped you to get pregnant, but that wasn't the reason I wanted to go.

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Austria Hungry ; Dr Mayr Believed That Epsom Salts, Fruit Tea and No Dinner Was the Path to Good Health. Charlotte Eagar Returns to the Hills to See If His Clinic Can Work Its Old Magic

Dr Mayr, an Austrian dietician, believed in the benefits of 'cleansing' the intestines regularly to remove toxins, and chewing all your food into a pap before you swallow. It worked for him: he was well into his nineties when he died, and looks repulsively healthy on all of the posters. But it means that in the clinic you eat very little, and what you do ...

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