Dieting fads...
Most "revolutionary new diets" are completly ludicrous, and I still can't quite believe people use Atkins - it works BECAUSE YOU'RE STARVING YOURSELF! Forget the constipation and bad breath from eating so much protein, it does odd things to your health and hormone cycles. Anyway, I digress:

But heard in the queue for a baguette shop in Uni yesterday:

Girl 1: ...Oh, they've stopped serving salads and I'm not allowed bread! I hate detoxing!
Girl 2: It's ok, it's brown bread so it soaks up the poisons...

Odd, but not tragic. They then stated discussing the fact that Girl 2 is on a diet where she can eat just as much as normal, but she can't eat carbs and protein at the same time - apparrently she has carbs first (eg chips), then waits an hour before eating her protein (sausages for example) "because that way you don't put on weight".

Also you can't eat fruit after a meal "otherwise it ends up getting digested". I was overcome with an odd mixture of laughter and dispair.
(Not very much gravitas at all, Fri 7 Jan 2005, 23:33, Reply)