For years, diet-book authors, weight loss gurus, and talk-show hosts have proposed a dizzying array of methods for shedding pounds.
There are juice fasts, raw-food programs, and hypnosis techniques; you can eat like a Frenchwoman, a caveman, or Jesus; and according to one recent book, you can even binge one day and fast the next ("Diet only half the time!"). So much for the common sense approach.