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Ruler Byron advocates the Vinegar and Water Diet, which involves drinking water blended in with apple juice vinegar.
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The Lucky Strike cigarette brand launches the "Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet" campaign, profiting by nicotine's craving stifling superpowers.
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The Grapefruit Diet—a.k.a. the Hollywood Diet—is conceived. The well known low-cal plan calls for eating grapefruit with each dinner.
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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.
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Urban legend has it that show artist Maria Callas dropped 65 pounds on the Tapeworm Diet, supposedly by gulping a parasite-pressed pill.
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Weight Watchers is established by Jean Nidetch, a self-depicted "overweight housewife fixated on treats."
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The Sleeping Beauty Diet, which includes sedation, is reputed to have been attempted by Elvis.
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A Florida specialist makes the Cookie Diet, an arrangement where you eat treats made with a mix of amino acids. Hollywood gobbles it up.
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a shake for breakfast, a shake for lunch, at that point a reasonable supper—turns into an eating regimen staple.
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Herman Tarnower, MD, publicly announces The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet. Two years later he is shot by his girlfriend.
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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.
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A well known craving stifling candy called Ayds is taken the market after the AIDS emergency hits.
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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."
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Jazzercise, established in 1969 by proficient artist Judi Sheppard Missett, hits each of the 50 states.
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Harvey and Marilyn Diamond distribute Fit for Life, which disallows complex carbs and protein from being eaten during a similar dinner.
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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.
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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.
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Robert C. Atkins, MD, publishes Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, a high-protein, low-carb plan.
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The Zone Diet, which requires a particular proportion of carbs, fat, and protein at every supper, starts to draw in celeb fans.
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Victoria Beckham starts the blink-and-it’s-gone baby weight trend after the birth of her first son, Brooklyn.
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Gwyneth Paltrow loans cred to the Macrobiotic Diet, a prohibitive Japanese arrangement dependent on entire grains and veggies.
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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.
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The FDA bans the sale of diet drugs and supplements containing ephedra after it's linked to heart attacks.
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The Biggest Loser makes its TV debut, turning weight loss into a reality show.
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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.
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Alli hits the market. The nonprescription drug is taken with meals to keep your body from absorbing some of the food you eat.
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Jennifer Hudson loses a jaw-dropping 80 pounds on Weight Watchers
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The HCG Diet, which combines a fertility drug with a strict 500- to 800-calorie-a-day regimen, invites interest—and criticism.
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Jessica Simpson loses 60 pounds of baby weight on Weight Watchers.
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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.