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Celebrity diets are nothing new, they were popular centuries ago, a trip through history shows.

The Greek originating word diet has changed meaning over the years to mean weight loss rather than eating well and healthy

Celebrity diets are nothing new, they were popular centuries ago, a trip through history shows.

  The world marks “No Diet Day” every year on May 6 to enable people to accept their bodies and to promote a healthy lifestyle and raise awareness on the dangers of dieting. The celebration of the Day has helped in handling problems concerning diet and also created body awareness with its symbol being a blue ribbon. “No Diet Day” was introduced by Mary Evans, Director of the British group “Diet Breakers” in 1992 after she had anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder, which caused less food intake with the fear of gaining weight. She helped people to appreciate themselves and their bo...

Grains, begone! Credit: Josy Bloggs Back in 2002, the science writer Gary Taubes was, to much of the medical establishment, a pariah. Taubes had authored an article for The New York Times Magazine called “What If It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie?” From the piece’s beginning to its end, Taubes cast doubt on the medical orthodoxy that low-fat diets were helpful for weight loss. Low-fat diets, he said, were likely to be partially responsible for America’s ballooning obesity crisis (mirrored here in Britain). The evidence was beginning to indicate, Taubes wrote, that a diet low in carbs and...