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
Claire, 8, plays a food faddist who hates to mix up her victuals.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
It belongs either to the clever faddist who can see nothing straight, or it proceeds from those dangers and infirmities which the expert in any subject knows too well.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil
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