Article: Fad diets never die . . .(Spotlight)

Byline: Lisa Ryckman, Rocky Mountain News

Diets come and go - and then come back again.

Take the Cabbage Soup Diet. It made its debut in 1950, and 40 years later, it looked all shiny and new. Suffice to say that a cabbage is a cabbage is a cabbage, and what gave folks gas back in 1950 had exactly the same effect in 1990.

And it will do the same when it pops up again in 2030, but by then, there will be a whole new generation of dieters who missed it the first two times.

Diets often seem to come in waves, sharing similar concepts with their own unique little twists. Many of the latest crop of diets, for example, subscribe to the ELMO ...

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