Exciting New Revolutionary Diet

According to Webster's dictionary, the word Revolutionary means "constituting or bringing about a major or fundamental change." Could a diet make such a claim? How many "revolutionary" diets are there?

• The Hilton Head Metabolism Diet : The Revolutionary New Plan That Teaches Your Body to Burn off Fat--and Keep it off Permanently by Peter M. Miller
• Living Beauty Detox Program : The Revolutionary Diet for Each and Every Season of a Woman's Life by Ann Louise Gittleman
• The False Fat Diet : The Revolutionary 21-Day Program for Losing the Weight You Think Is Fat by by Elson Md Haas, et al
• The Calcium Key: The Revolutionary Diet Discovery That Will Help You Lose Weight Faster by Michael Zemel Ph.D., Bill Gottlieb
• Food Combining: The Revolutionary Diet Plan for Health and Longevity by Jeffrey Mannix
• The Metabolic Diet: The revolutionary diet that explodes the myths about carbohydrates and fats
• Gary Null's Ultimate Lifetime Diet : A Revolutionary All-Natural Program for Losing Weight and Building a Healthy Body by Gary Phd Null
• The Good Calorie Diet: The Revolutionary New Diet Program Based on Inhibiting Fat Formation by Philip, Ph.D. Lipetz
• NutriSystem Nourish: The Revolutionary New Weight-Loss Program by NutriSystem, James Rouse
• The Fat Blocker Diet:The Revolutionary Discovery that can Lower Cholesteral, by Arnold Fox, Adderly Brenda
• Apples and Pears : A Revolutionary Diet Programme for Weight Loss and Optimum Health by Marie Savard, Carol Svec
• Eat to Win for Permanent Fat Loss : The Revolutionary Fat-Burning Diet for Peak Mental and Physical Performance and Optimum Health by Robert Haas
• The Omega Diet : The Revolutionary 12-Unit Plan for Health and Easy Weight Loss by Judith Wills
• The pH Miracle for Diabetes : The Revolutionary Diet Plan for Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetics by Robert O. Young, Shelley Redford Young
• The Diet Code : Revolutionary Weight Loss Secrets from Da Vinci and the Golden Ratio by Stephen Lanzalotta
• Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution by Robert C. Atkins
• Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works by Evelyn Tribole, Elyse Resch
• Eat To Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss by Joel Fuhrman

• "You see, timing is the revolutionary concept that has been kept secret for years." from The 3-Hour Diet: How Low-Carb Diets Make You Fat and Timing Makes You Thin by Jorge Cruise, Page 1.
• "The Abs Diet is a revolutionary new way of eating..." from The Abs Diet Eat Right Every Time Guide by David Zinczenko

Okay - I'll stop now - I think you get the point.

Stop the Abuse
As consumers we have a right to feel both wary and suspicious of this constant abuse of the english language that is perpetrated by many diet books. I'm sure there are a few diets that can lay claim to bringing about a "major or fundamental change" - Dr Atkins for one. But eating every 3 hours - that's a revolution? That's almost as bad as claiming there are such things as weight loss secrets... "pay me $29.95 and I'll tell you a revolutionary fat-burning secret that nobody else knows..."

There isn't much that is revolutionary about eating less. Maybe someone ought to tell the publishers?

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