Could YOU live on just one meal a day? These women do – and swear it's the secret to taming a mid-life tum but still enjoying good food

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Deborah Pufal comments on the latest extreme diet: 'This is yet another diet that involves fasting and is unsustainable for long-term weight loss. During the menopausal years women deposit more body fat around the stomach. Worryingly, the temptation is to embark on very low-calorie diets for cosmetic reasons — not health ones.

'The modern mentality that a diet must be extreme in order for it to work is also harmful.

'So many women fall into this trap and while they will lose weight, they'll be walking around in a state of starvation,' she says.