If You Look Flabby and You Feel Overweight and You Wanna Lose a Couple of Stone…

…Eric Husman proposes the Alphabet Diet. "I suggest that if you picked five letters at random from the alphabet and confine your diet to foods whose name does not contain those letters, you will see the same initial effects as the Atkins or any other diet," he writes. "If the diet ceases to be effective, pick 5 new letters."

Marginal Revolution has the full explanation.