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How to Spot a Diet Scam


Defiant claims of a renegade genius.

Watch out for a diet guru who professes to understand nutritional science but rejects it, contending that prevailing views on weight control are misguided. Posing as an unconventional genius who perceives truths mere mortals can't see is an easy way to get attention. Conventional wisdom is indeed wise—and hard earned, the product of painstaking research and long-term observation.