Article: A century of soya shakes, cabbage soup, grapefruit... and hunger Over years we tried more diets than hot dinners. Gavanndra Hodge sorts the best from the rest

TThis month it is the Atkins diet and the Glycaemic Index diet (aka the Jennifer Aniston diet and the Kylie Minogue diet). Five years ago it was the Kensington diet. Before that it was the Cabbage Soup diet. In the wake of our never-ending quest to lose that last 10lbs, a dieting industry has been created in this country with an estimated annual value of more than pounds 1bn.

Every year, hundreds of new "breakthrough" diet books and regimes are launched. Every year we put ourselves on one or other of these diets. Every year we put back on the pounds we have lost. One in four Britons is on a diet at any one time, and an estimated 98 per cent of

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