Kenneth Charles Hutchin

Kenneth Charles Hutchin (1908–1993) was a British physician and medical writer.

Biography

Hutchin was a former Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was Staff Surgeon at Herts Constabulary (1946–1975), General Practitioner for the National Health Service (1948–1975), Medical Officer for the Hertfordshire Society for the Blind (1949–1975) and Medical Correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph (1961–1965). He worked as a General Practitioner in Hatfield.

Hutchin's best known book was How Not to Kill Your Husband, published in 1952 and translated into six languages. In the early 1960s, Hutchin urged the use of bathroom scales, which were rarely used in Britain at the time.

Diet

Hutchin's dietary advice for overweight people was a high-protein low-carbohydrate diet that is not high in fat. He recommended his readers to eat lean meat, fish and poultry, green vegetables and salads whilst avoiding all starch and sugar foods.

Selected publications

Your Diet and Your Health (1959) Allergy (1961) Coughs, Colds and Bronchitis (1961) How Not to Kill Your Husband (1962) The Change of Life (1963) Diabetes (as Kenneth Challice, 1964) Heart Disease and High Blood Pressure (1964) Slipped Discs (1964) Young Man's Guide to Health (1964) How Not to Kill your Wife (1965) How Your Body Uses Food (1965) The Health of the Businessman (1966) How Not to Kill Your Children (1968) Health and Sex (1969) How Not to Kill Yourself (1973)