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The babyfood diet. The cabbage soup diet. The Atkins diet. And yet, hard as it is to believe, in the past we've done even worse to be thin. More »
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Could you live off of six cookies a day, plus a small meal? The newest diet trend asks you to do just that, earning both accolades from celebrities and a batch of imitators. But does it work? More »
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PR companies trying to shill shit for women email us with their announcements, hard sells and hoopla. The result? A smattering of what people think women (or we) want. Crap emails from publicists, after the jump. More »
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Listen up Atkins addicts: a new study has found that women who go on low-carb diets suffer impaired memory after just one week. Do your brain a favor and eat bread. [Daily Mail] More »
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Japanese banana importers are currently in a state of emergency due to the wild popularity of the Morning Banana Diet: Most supermarkets in Japan are selling out of bananas by 3 p.m. every day. The Morning Banana Diet was developed by a pharmacist in Osaka to help her husband lose weight and it gained popularity when a TV program featured a singer who lost 15 pounds in six weeks on the diet. The diet regimen is simple: Eat a banana and drink room temperature water in the morning, eat whatever you want for lunch or dinner (except for desserts) and go to bed before midnight. [TIME] More »
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Most celeb followers know by now that Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna were born again by their mutual trainer, Tracy Anderson, who has her clients work out for 2 hours a day, six days a week. But in addition to the exercise regime, Anderson also puts her clients on a strict diet that allows no processed food, dairy or spices ("They're bloating and upset your digestive system, which causes you to store fat"), oil and sauces ("They're just added calories"), and discourages drinking alcohol or caffeine (sip 1.5 to 3 liters of water daily instead)." And while this does sorta make sense (since processed foods are the devil's work and all, though I'm not exactly sure what spice every did to hurt anyone), the portions allowed seem, well, a bit extreme. (But then again, adherence to it will apparently ensure that you lose 5 lbs a week, which is clearly all a girl could ever ask for, right?) After the jump, three days' worth of the sample menus given by Anderson to US Weekly for the magazine's readers to enjoy starve themselves with. More »
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