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Diets Unlimited
There are diets starring bananas, grapefruit, brown rice, ice cream, hard boiled eggs, seaweed, cider vinegar, and water. The ultimate push-back-from-the-dinnertable diet is short-term, supervised fasting.
Skimpy diet food may not always go down easily with the robust. Doctors point out that middle-aged men who scorn salads as ‘rabbit food’ should reflect that a male rabbit is light on his feet, has no paunch, and maintains lively romantic interests.
Champion dieter, says the Guinness Book of World Records, is ex-circus fat lady Dolly Dimples who went from 555 to 145 pounds in 14 months.
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