Food faddism and fad diet refer to idiosyncratic diets and eating patterns.

This story says that The Cookie Diet is new and likely to be a fad. If it's a fad, it has to be the longest-running fad in history. The Cookie Diet was created thirty-two years ago by Dr. Sanford Siegal. 500,000 of his patients have been on it. There's a Cookie Diet web site at http://www.CookieDietOnline.com.

According to a new book "Omnivore's Delight: A Natural History of Four Meals," corn underwrites a national eating disorder. At bottom, our milk, eggs, meat, candy, chips, soft drinks, breakfast cereal, bread and even health foods are driven by the corn economy whic h makes Americans vulnerable to fat diets and nutritional fads.