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BONUS: The Conservative Diet Books of Yore

Maintenance Phase

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Phyllis George's Diet Book

Miss America Phyllis George wrote a diet book in 1983. Her co writer is Bill Adler, whose bio just says like he's a literary agent and a writer. The main thing that we are going to focus on for this book in particular is the description on the flap of the book jacket. It was really striking to me to be looking at something again that is my entire lifetime ago and be like, "This is new marketing"

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