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Diets.(statistics and history of dieting)
Byline: KATE SULLIVAN
Dieters count calories, fat grams, carbs, and Weight Watchers pointscrunching more numbers than a CPA at tax time. But their favorite math activity is definitely subtraction. Below, some of the big and small figures in dieting.
1087: Year William the Conqueror, too fat to ride his horse, went on the first recorded weight-loss program: an alcohol diet. He lost weight, but he died the same year in a riding accident.
12th: Century archaeologists believe monks in Scotland created the first diet pills (made from plants), which the monks claimed staved off hunger for weeks or even months.
32: Number of times each piece of food should be chewed, according to 19th-century diet guru Horace Fletcher.
24: Number of years he advocated "Fletcherism," which earned him the nickname "the Great Masticator."
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