More Screwed-Up American Ideas About Dieting

A new diet fad is making the media rounds.  It requires cutting your intake to 500 calories a day and receiving injections of pregnancy hormones, which the diet's boosters claim will allow weight loss and fat burn without hunger.  Turns out THIS IS NOT HEALTHY.  Surprise.  It makes me wonder if there is anything Americans won't do to lose weight--short of a healthy, moderate schedule of normal food and exercise, of course.

Here's the New York Times article on the diet.  I took the photo up above from the article.