Losing It: How to Launch a Diet Empire

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The South Beach Diet became an incredible success in the early 2000s, blowing past booksellers’ expectations, dominating the cultural moment and becoming a huge business. In the third episode of Losing It, we fly down to glamorous Miami to tell the story of the South Beach Diet and break down the formula for a hit diet.

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0:08.2	And I'm Katie Greifeld.
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0:30.9	Okay, I won't do that many rounds, but you'll get a sense of one, certainly.
0:39.3	Are you interviewing him, actually? About what?
0:40.3	My boxing, because I'm known as a famous boxer.
0:44.3	For the record, this is not a famous boxer.
0:48.3	So Juan is still thinks on the beat, the champ eventually.
0:52.3	We call me the champ anyway.
0:54.8	We're coming for Mike Tyson.
0:56.6	There's a few more years.
0:58.0	We're coming for Mike Tyson.
0:59.2	A few more years of practice.
1:01.4	The man I'm standing with in a makeshift South Florida outdoor gym with his trainer,
1:07.8	surrounded by curious kids, is Arthur Agatston. You may not know his name, but you
1:15.7	definitely know his diet, which was everywhere in the early 2000s. Real weight loss for real people.
1:23.6	Go to south beach diet.com today. You'll rev up your metabolism for even faster weight loss. By the doctor behind the revolutionary South beach diet.com today you'll rev up your metabolism for even faster weight long
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