(D’esquerra a dreta). Pietro M. Boselli, Inmaculada Zarzo and José Miguel Soriano.
(D'esquerra a dreta). Pietro M. Boselli, Inmaculada Zarzo and José Miguel Soriano. The history of weight loss diets is a compendium of scientific advances and scams. From the recent ones of the tapeworm, alkaline and macrobiotic, to other older ones, the belief in risky weight loss methods has cost the lives of numerous patients. Inmaculada Zarzo (Food and Health Laboratory, Institute of Materials Science), José Miguel Soriano (Department of Preventive Medicine of the Faculty of Pharmacy - La Fe), both from the University of Valencia, and Pietro M. Boselli (University of Milan) show in a scientific article the dangers of poor nutritional practices. "Throughout the centuries, weight loss diets have been developed by non-health people, from charlatans to amateurs, who have risked the lives of their patients. In reality, only professional nutritionists can guarantee effective and beneficial results for health", affirm Zarzo, Soriano and Boselli in their article History of Slimming Diets up to the Late 1950s , which analyses these practices until the 1950s, although some of them are still applied.
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