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Losing weight by eating too much

7 April 2010

Losing weight by eating too much

WHEN Hilton Selvey told us about an email he had received promoting a “negative calorie” diet that supposedly means the more you eat, the more weight you lose, he added he was worried that if he followed this diet and ate too much he would eventually disappear in a puff of smoke.

We had a look around, and found that a famous web search engine lists 392,000 pages containing the words “negative calorie foods”. Typical of the claims they make are the ones at , which states: “The Negative Calorie DietTM

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