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A 30-year diet: slim success or desperate measure?

Diet is a very powerful word: you only have to ask a publisher. Walk into any bookshop and the choice of diet books is bewildering - The Wine Diet, anyone? How the Rich Get Thin? The Duvet Diet?

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REBECCA McQUILLAN

DIET is a very powerful word: you only have to ask a publisher. Walk into any bookshop and the choice of diet books is bewildering - The Wine Diet, anyone? How the Rich Get Thin? The Duvet Diet? - it raises the heart rate just trying to choose.