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Timeline: A History of Single-Food Diets

See also: Can man live on fruit alone? Read more about fruitarianism.

November 2012 Issue

2003
Special K

The Diet: Replace two meals a day with cereal.

The Die-hards: American women make it so popular that a diet product line is born, encompassing meal-replacement bars, shakes, and chips.

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