PE Timeline

  • Vinegar and Water Diet

    Ruler Byron advocates the Vinegar and Water Diet, which involves drinking water blended in with apple juice vinegar.
  • "Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet" campaign

    The Lucky Strike cigarette brand launches the "Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet" campaign, profiting by nicotine's craving stifling superpowers.
  • The Grapefruit Diet

    The Grapefruit Diet—a.k.a. the Hollywood Diet—is conceived. The well known low-cal plan calls for eating grapefruit with each dinner.
  • Cabbage Soup Diet

    The Cabbage Soup Diet guarantees you can shed 10–15 pounds in seven days by eating a constrained eating regimen including cabbage soup each day.
  • Tapeworm Diet

    Urban legend has it that show artist Maria Callas dropped 65 pounds on the Tapeworm Diet, supposedly by gulping a parasite-pressed pill.
  • Weight Watchers

    Weight Watchers is established by Jean Nidetch, a self-depicted "overweight housewife fixated on treats."
  • Sleeping Beauty Diet

    The Sleeping Beauty Diet, which includes sedation, is reputed to have been attempted by Elvis.
  • Cookie Diet

    A Florida specialist makes the Cookie Diet, an arrangement where you eat treats made with a mix of amino acids. Hollywood gobbles it up.
  • Slim-Fast

    a shake for breakfast, a shake for lunch, at that point a reasonable supper—turns into an eating regimen staple.
  • The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet

    Herman Tarnower, MD, publicly announces The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet. Two years later he is shot by his girlfriend.
  • Dexatrim

    Dexatrim, an eating routine medication containing phenylpropanolamine (PPA), shows up on drugstore racks. Its recipe changes after PPA is connected to an expanded danger of stroke in 2000.
  • Ayds

    A well known craving stifling candy called Ayds is taken the market after the AIDS emergency hits.
  • Workout: Starring Jane Fonda

    The vigorous exercise furor ventures into high rigging when Jane Fonda dispatches her first exercise video, Workout: Starring Jane Fonda. Her catchphrase: "No pain, no gain."
  • Jazzercise

    Jazzercise, established in 1969 by proficient artist Judi Sheppard Missett, hits each of the 50 states.
  • Fit for life

    Harvey and Marilyn Diamond distribute Fit for Life, which disallows complex carbs and protein from being eaten during a similar dinner.
  • Elizabeth Takes Off

    In her diary slice self improvement guide, Elizabeth Takes Off, entertainer Elizabeth Taylor encourages weight watchers to eat veggies and plunge every day at 3 p.m.
  • Liquid Diet

    Wearing some size 10 Calvin Klein pants, Oprah strolls onto the arrangement of her show, pulling a cart loaded with fat to speak to the 67 pounds she lost on a fluid eating regimen.
  • Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution

    Robert C. Atkins, MD, publishes Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, a high-protein, low-carb plan.
  • The Zone Diet

    The Zone Diet, which requires a particular proportion of carbs, fat, and protein at every supper, starts to draw in celeb fans.
  • Blink-and-it’s-gone baby weight trend

    Victoria Beckham starts the blink-and-it’s-gone baby weight trend after the birth of her first son, Brooklyn.
  • Macrobiotic Diet

    Gwyneth Paltrow loans cred to the Macrobiotic Diet, a prohibitive Japanese arrangement dependent on entire grains and veggies.
  • The South Beach Diet

    Miami specialist Arthur Agatston, MD, adds fuel to the low-carb furor by distributing The South Beach Diet, seen as an increasingly moderate form of Atkins.
  • The FDA ban

    The FDA bans the sale of diet drugs and supplements containing ephedra after it's linked to heart attacks.
  • The Biggest Loser

    The Biggest Loser makes its TV debut, turning weight loss into a reality show.
  • Master Cleanse

    Beyonce confesses to utilizing the Master Cleanse, a creation of high temp water, lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper, to shed 20 pounds for Dreamgirls.
  • Alli

    Alli hits the market. The nonprescription drug is taken with meals to keep your body from absorbing some of the food you eat.
  • Weight Watchers.

    Jennifer Hudson loses a jaw-dropping 80 pounds on Weight Watchers
  • The HCG Diet

    The HCG Diet, which combines a fertility drug with a strict 500- to 800-calorie-a-day regimen, invites interest—and criticism.
  • Weight Watchers

    Jessica Simpson loses 60 pounds of baby weight on Weight Watchers.
  • Chloe Ting Workout

    Chloe Ting's workout program sky rockets in popularity and she gains millions and millions of views to help maintain a good body and rigorous exercises.