When I was in high school, the big rage of the day was eating a lot of celery, because celery has less calories than the effort it takes to eat it. In theory then, by eating it you will automatically lose weight. The problem with this theory, is first of all, celery alone isn’t very nutritious. (But just try and tell a teenage girl that.)

The second problem is that if you reduce your calories too much, your metabolism goes down to nothing. One source says, “When your metabolism drops, you will retain more weight as the …read more