To Diet For
If you're struggling with a post-Christmas blitz on your weight, then this entertaining look at the history of dieting will provide small comfort.
Don't imagine for a moment that this is a modern phenomenon. People in the Twenties used to swallow tapeworms! That would have make anyone think twice.
By the Thirties, girls had resorted to amphetamines and filterless Gauloise.
Whatever your preferred method, dieting is, according to comedian Arabella Weir, 'like being married to Liz Taylor - you know it's not going to work'.
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