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" When it comes to food, 2013 was a year of extremes. On one end of the spectrum were over-the-top creations like cronuts and deep-fried Twinkie burgers. On the other was the exact opposite: A sad buffet where, one by one, our favorite delicacies were taken away because of the supposedly horrid ingredients contained within. Here&amp;#039;s what had us whispering a plaintive sayonara as it went gently into the night of 2013.  Gluten The gluten-free craze has been around for  a few years, but it reached a feverish peak in 2013 thanks to books like The  South Beach Diet Gluten Solution and Grain Brain. Whether or not you take their advice is your decision, but the latter provided a perfect name for that thing that happens to your mind when a waiter places a bread basket on the table at a restaurant, and suddenly it&amp;#039;s all you can think about because mmmmm brioche.  Grains in general The caveman diet is somewhat similar to going gluten-free, but Elana Amsterdam,  author of Paleo cooking  From Elana&amp;#039;s Pantry, explained the  difference thusly, &amp;quot;Paleo excludes not just the grains that contain gluten,  but all grains and grain-like substances\u2014including rice, corn, quinoa,  etc. To put it simply: Paleo is gluten-free, but gluten-free is not paleo.&amp;quot; Helpful, but we still imagine Cro-Magnon men running down woolly mammoths, eating a massive amount of meat, and then going hungry until the next big hunt.  Carbs Kim Kardashian reintroduced  this fad from the &amp;#039;90s when she revealed that she followed the Atkins diet to  drop over 50 pounds of pregnancy weight. While many people recall the original  incarnation of Atkins, which had followers eating meat and cheese without  abandon, the 2013 version is a lot more in keeping with the  current nutritional recommendations for a healthy, balanced diet. Step away from the Slim Jims, is what we&amp;#039;re trying to say.  Juicing For some devotees, going on a juice cleanse means eliminating solid foods altogether, and while people swear it brings  them to a higher state of mental clarity, nutritionists warn against ingesting only liquid calories. Which is music to our ears, because we&amp;#039;re big fans of chewing. And solids. Also: Not running around like a toddler after a Capri Sun, followed by an epic sugar crash that hits oh-so-much-harder post-30.   Refined sugar Cutting back on sugar\u2014especially the non-naturally-occurring  kind\u2014has many positive health benefits. Sometimes the anti-sugar movement gets taken to extremes, though, like in Jorge Cruise&amp;#039;s The  100 diet, which says you can shed pounds if you limit yourself to 100  sugar calories a day\u2014but whatever else you want.  Dairy Tracy Anderson stresses that &amp;quot;cheese is not  the enemy,&amp;quot; and one study found that women  who ate low-fat dairy products three to four times a day lost more fat than dieters who skimped on dairy. Still, many people cut dairy from their diets for reasons ranging from lactose  intolerance to... pretending to be lactose intolerant.   Trans fats Even the FDA got in on the elimination craze: They recently embarked on a mission to classify bad-cholesterol-raising trans fats as &amp;quot;food additives,&amp;quot; which would mean they couldn&amp;#039;t be used in foods without special approval. We&amp;#039;re totally copacetic with this elimination.  Alcohol Known for his huskier physique, Chris Pratt made headlines when he posted this  photo on Instagram with the  caption, &amp;quot;Six months no beer.&amp;quot; The actor had to bulk up for his role in the  Guardians of the Galaxy movie, and while it&amp;#039;s nice to think that a few  months without drinking was all it took to look like this, Pratt was definitely  on an extreme diet as well. Nevertheless, cutting back on alcohol can have a positive effect on your health\u2014just maybe not to Pratt-ian proportions. Related 17 Desserts So Good You Won&amp;#039;t Even Miss the Gluten Why  It&amp;#039;s Time to Nix Sneaky Sugar Sources for Good A  Workweek&amp;#039;s Worth of D.I.Y. Cold-Press Juice Recipes "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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