From grapefruit-fuelled dreams in the 1920s to the keto craze of today, let’s take a look at the wild world of fad diets. 1920s-1930s: The grapefruit diet – the original ‘quick fix’ The ...

Intermittent fasting has become far more than just a fad, like the Atkins and grapefruit diets before it. The diet remains popular more than a decade later: By one count, 12 percent of Americans ...

Grapefruit contained enzymes that could "burn ... on certain days. Like many fad diets, it promised rapid weight loss. "While recipes found online for making homemade cabbage soup for this diet ...

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For the sake of your health, stop with the fad diets. The formula is simple ... to eat only cabbage soup or baby food or drink only grapefruit juice, and ignore every other food group.