Okay, now this just has to be useful. The Social Issues Research Centre has published a timeline of dietary advice.

Where else can you read that in 1861, the cookbook Christianity in the Kitchen warned that pie crust made with butter or lard was both indigestible and un-Christian?

Or that it was once considered wise to fear fruit?

(“What’s that? OMG an apricot! And I think it’s begun to roll this way. Run! Run!”)

(Dontcha just miss the 19th Century?)