The History of Health Food, Part 3: The Birth of Dieting

Vintage ad for diet candies, courtesy of Flickr user tmat1075 This is the third in a three-part series about the history of health foods, from antiquity to medieval times to the present day. If we don’t count the Diet of Worms in 1521, which sounds like it would certainly induce weight loss but in fact has nothing to do with food (or creepy-crawlies), the modern conception of dieting can probably be traced to the 19th century. This was when a formerly portly London undertaker, William

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