{"id":664878,"date":"2026-06-29T19:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664878\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:59:11","slug":"i-eat-it-every-day-dallass-victoria-principal-on-the-anti-ageing-diet-rule-she-swears-by-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664878\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I eat it every day\u2019: Dallas\u2019s Victoria Principal on the anti-ageing diet rule she swears by at 76"},"content":{"rendered":"

She made her name playing Pamela Barnes Ewing in Dallas, wife of oil tycoon Bobby (who producers famously brought back to life after he \u2018died\u2019 in a hit-and-run, putting the whole of series 10 down to Pamela\u2019s \u2018nightmare\u2019). After leaving Dallas in 1987, Victoria went on to become a bestselling author, honing her beauty, health and fitness expertise in three books: The Body Principal (1983), The Beauty Principal (1984) and The Diet Principal (1987). In the 2000s, she wrote a fourth book, Living Principal (2001). <\/p>\n

Today, Pamela focuses on rescuing and rehabilitating animals on her farm outside LA. <\/p>\n

So how does she stay fit and healthy? The key to staying youthful is, she says, moderation. \u2018I don\u2019t believe the word diet is what you don\u2019t eat,\u2019 she told HuffPost<\/a>. \u2018To me, the word diet is what you do eat. I don\u2019t want to spend a lifetime in a negative dance with food, nor feeling deprived of the joy of food. <\/p>\n

\u2018The way that I created my diet, which is the way I eat, the way I cook and the way I order when I\u2019m eating out, is that moderation, as in almost everything, is the key. I do believe in eating organically, and I don\u2019t believe in eating processed foods.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"malibu,<\/p>\n

Charley Gallay<\/p>\n

And she has one indulgence: \u2018I do believe in eating dark chocolate and I\u2019m happy to say I do so every day of my life. On my death bed, I don\u2019t want to say, \u201cI wish I\u2019d had the chocolate.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

The science suggests she\u2019s on to something. According to British Heart Foundation senior dietitian Dell Stanford: \u2018Dark chocolate has a higher cocoa solid content than milk or white \u2013 and cocoa solids are a good source of flavanols, a type of chemical that naturally occurs in plants. Flavanols give dark chocolate its slightly bitter taste and its potential health benefits, such a helping to lower blood pressure and making blood vessels more flexible.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She made her name playing Pamela Barnes Ewing in Dallas, wife of oil tycoon Bobby (who producers famously…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[216254,9262,222784,381,59,102,190731,1156,222783,222782,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-664878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-216254","tag-content-type-feature","tag-contentid-04e2b24c-c4fc-4b2a-96d2-ed0924a34f7f","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-on-the-anti-ageing-diet-rule-she-swears-by","tag-shorttitle-victoria-principal","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}