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The Long, Strange History of Dieting Fads

by Melissa Wdowik

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" Of all the parasites that affect humanity I do not know of, nor can I imagine, any more distressing than that of Obesity.

So started William Banting‘s “Letter on Corpulence,” likely the first diet book ever published.

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