The advent of fad diets

And in the big picture, diet plans promising dramatic results,known as fad diets,are just what they seem:too good to be true.So where do diet fads even come from?While the Ancient Greeks and Romans rallied behind large-scale health regimens centuries earlier,this phenomenon began in earnest in the Victorian Era with crazes like the vinegar diet and the Banting Diet.Since then, diets have advised us all sorts of things:to excessively chew,to not chew at all,to swallow a grapefruit per meal,non-stop cabbage soup,even consumption of arsenic,or tapeworms.