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A Brief History of Dieting

[ via CarbWire.com ] This Arizona Republic article, Diets all the rage since at least 1087, is a timeline of diet plans for the past millennium. My favourite one:

1087 – William the Conqueror tries a liquid diet for weight loss, taking to his bed and consuming nothing but alcohol.
Joey deVilla

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