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We were awful excited to read in yesterday’s Times that Michelle Obama is taking an extremely public and proactive approach to reforming American diets. After all, as the nation with the highest obesity rates in the world and the greatest direct impact on every other nation’s diets, it’s pretty unforgivable that we eat so poorly.
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This helpful CNN listicle assembled by our friends at mental_floss takes a backwards-looking journey through dieting to expose various food trends as far back as the 18th century. We especially dislike the sound of the Master Cleanse diet, whose principle ingredients you see at right.
It just goes to show, science has come along way, but [...]