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  "textContent": "Some things never change. In the 19th century, people became increasingly concerned about weight and the morality of foods and diet. Of course, this led to some really wacky and unscientific takes on diet that may have been more than a little dangerous. Come learn with me!\n\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n\nSources\n\nDisorderly Eating in Victorian England by Suzanne Samples\n\nFad Diets: Lifestyle Promises and Health Challenges by Jomana Khawandanah and Ihab Tewfik\n\nFad Diets and Health: A Utopia by Ambika Rani Yadav\n\n\"Do you bant?\" William Banting and bantingism: A cultural history of a Victorian anti-fat aesthetic By Jaime Michelle Miller\n\nAnxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets by Janet Chrzan, Kima Cargill\n\nRegime Change: Gender, Class, and the Invention of Dieting in Post-Bellum America by Katharina Vester\n\nCalories and Corsets: A History of Dieting Over Two Thousand Years by Louise Foxcroft\n\nThe rhetoric of food reform in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain by Amber Rebecca Hinde\n\nReinventing the Victorian Girl: Health Advice for Girls in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries By Hilary Marland in Health and Girlhood in Britain, 1874-1920\n\nWhere's the beef? The feminisation of weight-loss dieting in Britain and Scandinavia c.1890–1925 by Emma Hilborn in Gender & History, vol38 iss1, 2024\n\nPopular fad diets: An evidence-based perspective by Kayli Anderson in Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, vol77, 2023\n\nHealth and diet in 19th-century America: A food historian’s point of view By Alice Ross in Historical Archaeology, vol27, 1993\n\nHungry for Reassurance: Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Cultural Anxieties and the Diet Debate, 1890-1914 by Erin Rose Mulligan\n\nDiet Patterns in 19th-20th C. School Manuals by Anna Landau-Czajka\n\nPopular Health Movements and Diet Reform in Nineteenth-Century America by Nanami Suzuki in The Japanese Journal of American Studies, no21, 2010\n\nHealth and Beauty by Curus Edson in The North American Review, Oct 1897\n\nDiet and Hygiene: A Magazine of Food, Dietetics and Health, vol1, 1888 edited by William Abbotts\n\nA Treatise on Diet by J.A. Paris, MD, 1837\n\nMorality in Diet by H.S. Salt, 1880\n\nThe Diet Question, Giving The Reason Why by Susanna W. Dodds, MD, 1884\n\nThe Ethics of Diet by Howard Williams, 1883\n\nFruit and Bread: A Scientific Diet by Gustav Schlickeysen, 1877\n\nFood and Diet by Wilbur Olin Atwater, 1894\n\nThe Milk Diet for Health by S. Lief, 1890\n\nOn Corpulence in Relation to Disease: With Some Remarks on Diet by Harvey William, 1872\n\nComments on Corpulency: Lineaments of Leanness by William Wadd, 1829\n\nOn Alcoholic Drinks As An Article of Diet for Nursing Mothers by James Edmunds, 1875\n\nWater-Cure for Ladies: A Popular Work on the Health, Diet and Regimen of Females and Children, and the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by M.L. Shew, 1844\n\nThe Philosophy of Eating by Albert J. Bellows, MD, 1867\n\nFood, and its Influence on Health and Disease by Matthew Truman, MD, 1842\n\nEvils of violating the laws of health, and the remedy : an address, delivered before the American Physiological Society at their monthly meeting, February 7, 1838 by Abel G. Duncan",
  "title": "The Victorians Loved a Weird Fad Diet"
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