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1) C. GEOFFREY CHAUCER the oeD’s first citation is from Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s tale in 1386: ‘No deyntee morsel passed thurgh hir throte. Attempree diete was al hir phisik’. 2) FALSE Not any more. Until 2012, there was an All-Party Parliamentary Group for Weight Watchers — and one for Slimming World. But both have since closed down. Members, included tessa Jowell, Baroness Jay and Chris Bryant and they had their weekly weigh-ins within the Palace of Westminster. 3) 1C MARIA CALLAS — Tapeworm diet the opera singer was reported to have swallowed a tapeworm to lose weight. the idea was that the parasites grow in the intestines and absorb the food instead of you, but they also cause diarrhoea and vomiting. She insisted her weight loss was down to a diet of salads and chicken. 2A Franz Kafka — Chewing and spitting the Austro-hungarian novelist was a follower of Fletcherism, which advocated chewing a mouthful hundreds of times to extract the goodness, before spitting out what was left. 3D Lord Byron — Vinegar diet the english poet would drink vinegar and eat potatoes soaked in it every day. 4B Elvis Presley — Sleeping Beauty diet the king of rock ’n’ roll was believed to have adopted this diet — based on the belief that if you were heavily sedated for several days, you would ‘sleep off’ the weight — to fit into his Seventies jumpsuits. 4) C. 1918 Los Angeles physician Lulu hunt Peters published Diet And health in 1918. the concept of calories was so new she had to explain to readers how to pronounce the word (Kal’-o-ri). 5) A. Weight Watchers After 12 weeks, patients sent to Weight Watchers lost on average 9.7lb ( 4.4kg) with those on programmes given to them by their GP losing just 3.1lb (1.4kg), according to the 2011 study in the BMJ. 6) A. 16 per cent According to data from a 2007 study by Weight Watchers, published in the British Journal of Nutrition, roughly 20 per cent of members maintain their goal weight after two years and only 16 per cent after five years.