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Anything to lose weight if you're a Cosmo girl!

Cosmopolitan magazine is famous for the doozy diets it slips in between "5 Relaxing Sex Positions for People Who Have Anxiety About Sex" and "17 Face Sunscreens That Will Leave You With a Clearer Complexion." The magazine's U.S. edition got into hot water with some of its readers for promoting an April 10 article with a headline and tweet touting "How This Woman Lost 44 Pounds Without Any Exercise," in which it turned out that the woman featured actually had serious cancer surgery. (Cosmo quickly switched the title to the more anodyne "A Serious Health Scare Helped Me Love My Body More Than Ever."

But Cosmo's implication that getting cancer is a good way to get thinner was nothing compared to this article posted on Cosmo's U.K. website on April 10, 2013: Cosmo content editor Rosie Mullender's "Why Cosmo Loves the 'Cuban Diet."

The "Cuban Diet"what's that? Hold the cheese on that pork sandwich? No, not reallyhere goes:

Between 1990 and 1995, thanks to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuban people were forced to alter their entire lifestyles. They couldn't afford petrol, so the government provided them with bicycles. People started walking everywhere. Food was also in shorter supplythere were no supermarket aisles stuffed with junk food or wallets stuffed with money with which to buy it.

In short, Cubans could no longer afford to be fat. In that five-year period, they lost an average of around five kilos per person, which is over 11lbs. As a result of people getting slimmer, they also started living longer, with fewer Cubans dying of diabetes and heart disease.

Plus:

The government is keen for us all to follow the Cubans and tweak our lifestyles for the sake of our waistlines and health.

This made me curious to learn more about these lifestyle-tweaking Cubans dropping pounds astride their government provided-bicycles, so I found this article in the U.K. Independent dated July 1, 1994:

You won't see many cats prowling the twisting, unlit streets of old Havana these days. Strays or pets, most have fallen victim to a people living on the edge of starvation.

Under ever-tighter rationing since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the poorest of Cubans began devouring the cat population last year. Even the tiny allowance of meat in their ration books is rarely available after they queue for hours at state warehouses.

"Cats were among the first to go since they're said to taste okay. I had my three robbed from my house in January,' said Sylvia, a 32-year- old unmarried mother who lives in the Playa district and works as an administrator in a state hospital.

Sylvia and [her 4-year-old daughter] Hilda get one bread roll each per day. Milk or chicken are not available to adults. Hilda is allowed a litre of milk every two days and a quarter piece of chicken a month. (In fact, chicken has not appeared for more than two months).

They are allowed half a dozen eggs each a month. The only meat is part of a soya and mincemeat mixture but each is allowed only half a pound a month. Their other monthly rations are: rice - five pounds per person; black beans (a Cuban staple) - one pound per person; sugar - five pounds; salt - one ounce; rum - half a bottle.

Nor would it seem that the food situation for most Cubans has improved that much. This comes from the New York Times dated December 12, 2016:

Tourists are quite literally eating Cuba's lunch. Thanks in part to the United States embargo, but also to poor planning by the island's government, goods that Cubans have long relied on are going to well-heeled tourists and the hundreds of private restaurants that cater to them, leading to soaring prices and empty shelves.

Without supplies to match the increased appetite, some foods have become so expensive that even basic staples are becoming unaffordable for regular Cubans.

I'm now eagerly awaiting for the pages of Cosmo to feature the "Siege of Leningrad Diet," the "Bataan Death March Diet," and the "Kim Jong-un I'm Getting Fat So You Don't Have To" diet. I need to tweak my lifestyle myself.

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Can't Lose Weight? Try Government-Induced Starvation! - The Weekly Standard

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