We’ve Lost It: The Diet Episode

Diet dreams are splashed across magazine covers and blare from the
T.V., offering tips and tricks, that will, readers and viewers are
promised, make weight loss easy and fast. Diet books making similar
claims can be found at the top of the best-seller list without
fail, every January. But where does this obsession with losing
weight to reach some kind of idealized body type come from? How
long have gurus and doctors alike made millions from the West’s
preoccupation with the “d” word, and why do strange fads such as
chewing each bite hundreds of times stick around for centuries?
This episode, we explore the history of diets, before asking a
scientist: Does anything actually work? Learn more about your ad
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