Lady Thatcher's eggs-traordinary secret diet

Published: 8:30AM Monday February 01, 2010 Source: Reuters

Papers from Margaret Thatcher's personal archive have revealed the secret of the Iron Lady's winning election campaign in 1979.

It was eggs...28 of them every week.

Personal documents released by the Margaret Thatcher Foundation include the crash diet she took in the two weeks before polling day.

It included two eggs for breakfast and two more at lunch, every day.

The diet also included a strict ban on alcohol, unless she'd eaten plenty of meat first.

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