10:50AM Sarah Stokely | There have been a few diet plans published for geeks over the years – we told you about a few of
them
previously,
including the famous Hacker’s Diet. This latest one,
The
Geek Diet, is a 51 page ebook by Mark Faithfull, who describes
himself as a typical geek who wanted to tackle his weight in a
sensible and easy to manage way.
He has clearly approached his
subject with the scientific curiousity of a geek – in fact he says
he got the idea for the Geek Diet from a Scientific American podcast.
He’s sprinkled the book with quotes from various studies on eating,
food and weight loss. I have to admire the honesty of a diet book
which begins by quoting a UCLA study which found that 83% of people
who go on diets end up weighing more than when they started.
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