Egg and wine diet

The egg and wine diet was first popularized in Helen Gurley Brown's book Sex and the Single Girl: The Unmarried Woman’s Guide to Men in 1962 and was published in the Vogue magazine in 1977.

[1] The diet advocated the consumption of 3-5 eggs per day plus a 24-US-fluid-ounce (710 ml) bottle of wine.

[1] The diet was revived in 2018 on social media platforms and became a meme.

[3][4][5][6] Medical experts have warned against the diet as it is nutritionally unbalanced, unsustainable and in the long run will do more harm than good.

[1][7] The high-alcohol content of the diet has been described as dangerous and a threat to the liver.