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Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends.

This week, in episode 1, we talk about the 1920s, which was not all just flappers and speakeasies, but also brought us the first best-selling weight loss book, and the grapefruit diet.

We forgot to mention it in the episode but CW/TW: dieting, calorie reduction, weight loss.

Flapper magazine article

History of the scale

Diet of the flapper (Weight loss best-seller excerpt)

Exercise Trends

The Grapefruit Diet


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