faddist
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When we consider the importance of both digestibility and non-digestibility in our diets, some of the scientific holes in prevailing food faddist arguments are exposed as well.
From US News • Jul. 13, 2015
Nutrition faddist John Harvey Kellogg, whose sanatorium briefly embraced Fletcherism, tried to re-enliven mealtimes by hiring a quartette to sing “The Chewing Song,” an original Kellogg composition, while diners grimly toiled.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2013
In a high-income highly competitive market, appliances have become increasingly faddist and highly styled, and the company that hesitates to change is lost.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is not a diet faddist, nor does she overstrain herself in athletics.
From Time Magazine Archive
His friend and pupil, Peregrinus, invented the double pivoted compass, and, as the first perpetual-motion faddist, described how he would set about making a magnetic engine that he thought would run forever.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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