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Tango0111 Feb 2023 11:06 a.m. PST

"Each year, 45 million Americans go on a diet, and while their end goals may be similar, the paths they take to get there can look vastly different depending on the latest conventional wisdom.

The United States seems to undergo dietary whiplash every decade or so, and it has been that way since the inception of dieting in the 19th century. "What is striking is just how little it takes to set off one of these applecart-toppling nutritional swings in America," wrote Michael Pollan in "Our National Eating Disorder," in a 2004 issue of the New York Times Magazine. "A scientific study, a new government guideline, a lone crackpot with a medical degree can alter this nation's diet overnight."…"

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Mr Elmo11 Feb 2023 4:55 p.m. PST

Fad diets are definitely a first world problem. There are some people where the fad diet is not starving.

Perhaps we need weight loss tourism where you go to some third world slum for a year.

Tango0122 Feb 2023 8:44 p.m. PST

Glup!…

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