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Letter: A balanced diet need not be expensive or futile

Published 24 January 2018

From Charles Parsons, College Park, Maryland, US

Warner comments that “Calories in, calories out, or CiCo to its new devotees on social media, is all the rage. It just doesn't add up…” Well, yes, it does, it may be the only sane way to diet, and it doesn't deserve dismissal just because millennials are on board.

Warner uses most of his space to explain that diets don't work for a collection of reasons that have nothing to do with dieting. At least he pointed out that CiCo is sounder than the faddier nonsense of recent years.

Issue no. 3162 published 27 January 2018

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