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  1. Nov 2015
  2. Sep 2015
    1. Prediction: that this is going to go into the earliest of Fad diets

    2. Over the decades, certain foods acquire -- and lose -- near-mystical properties. In recent years it has been cabbage soup (the mainstay in an extremely strict diet that emerged around 1996); grapefruit (enzymes in grapefruit are supposed to attack fat cells); and apple vinegar (romantic poet Lord Byron allegedly lost weight by eating food drenched in vinegar).

      Fad diets often give one food mystical powers

    3. by the early 2000s, Atkins was back in favor

      Fix-up: Altough made in 1972 it became popular in the 2000s

    4. Dr. Robert Atkins introduced a low-carb, high-protein diet in 1972.

      Confusion: I thought this was made in the 2000s?

    5. And Metrecal begat Carnation's Slender.

      Summary: liquid diets started here.

    6. Gayelord Hauser

      Prediction: I predict that he was the creator of some fad diets.

    7. is book, Look Younger, Live Longer was a 1951 hit and his followers included Greta Garbo and Paulette Goddard.

      Visualization: I can see the cover of the book with some guy looking very plasticity and "young" with a blender and a big white smile.

    8. his own invented cereals, would bring perfect weight and perfect health.

      Summarize: he made a fad diet around his cereals and there is still one.

    9. "Chewing Song"

      Connect: I remember my mother playing this song for me when I was younger and I kept eating too fast and getting the hiccups.

    10. Fletcher, dubbed "the Great Masticator," also called for lower meat consumption and higher carbs and vegetable intake.

      Summary: This diet made you chew and chew and chew.

    11. liquid oblivion;

      Visualization: like a smoothie of meat and vegetables. just grossness.

    12. But his real legacy was the coarse-flour flatbread we now call graham crackers.

      Confusion: I am confused about his role in graham crackers. Were they a diet food?

    13. Americans have a long history of eating badly -- that is, of jumping from one fad diet to another in a scramble to lose weight or gain health

      Wondering: I wonder if it is just Americans are the only ones who eat bad.

    14. "Banting" became a weight-loss strategy across the Atlantic in America, and his best-selling book Letter on Corpulence opened the floodgates to diet mass-marketing.

      Summary: Banting was the first low carb diet, and the first fad diet because of its marketing.

    15. chewing each mouthful of food 50 times

      Visualization: I can picture someone chewing and chewing and chewing on the same bite of food.

    16. Today it's: Eat no carbohydrates. Yesterday it was: Eat no fat. Today it's South Beach. Yesterday it was Scarsdale.

      Connection: I remember my mother and her friends talking about the south beach diets when I was growing up, now my friends talk about the Scarsdale

    17. But that seems so un-American.

      Wonder: Why is it unamerican.

    1. Yet Americans’ well-meaning intentions may be in earnest

      I predicts that its going to talk about how america is an unhealthy countries.

    2. www.snackandbakery.com16Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery - January 2014Christine Cochran, executive director of the Grain Foods Foundatio

      I believe this person is credible because she is an executive director

    1. But seeing [these diets] in photos is really striking and makes them look much less appealing than hearing that Beyonce did it."

      this is a good idea I am going to see what celebrity backings for these fads.

    2. "A lot of times, it's a draw: No diet is better than the other," she says in a video press release. "When a diet does outdo another diet in terms of weight loss, it's by a very small amount."

      these diets do not work and no one is better than the other. I think they will talk about the diet rebound weight.

    3. I think hope they give examples of lifestyle changes.

    4. "There's all this stuff in the media about fad diets," she says, "and I think we need to eat better and watch what you eat, but you don't necessarily need these diets to take care of that

      I wonder how much social media has affected the popularity and spread of Fad diets.

    5. once again this is a new way of wanting something faster and easier.

    6. It was that sort of thinking that first prompted photographer Stephanie Gonot to investigate many current fad diets.

      I think this is an awesome artist view of fad diets, on paper some of these diets can sound healthy but looking at them in context paints a different picture.

    7. On one level, it's easy to understand the allure of a fad diet: Eat this, not that and you'll lose weight, guaranteed. Who doesn't want an easy way to shed unwanted pounds?

      when reading this I cant help to think about how much this is reflective of today's society. wanting everything instantly, without working to hard for it.

    8. Fad Diets Will Seem Even Crazier After You See This

      I think that this is going to be a satire on fad diets. Making fun of them and how crazy they sound