Health & Fitness: Hey, Are You Rotating?

A new diet has the country music capital spinning

In Nashville these days, citizens skip discussions of the weather to ask, "Are you rotating?" Music City, U.S.A., turning on to the latest pop dance fad? Not quite. Instead, Nashville has embraced the newest fat fighters' miracle: the rotation diet. Local restaurants are featuring meals from the plan's menu; grocery stores are posting signs touting approved fruits, vegetables and other foods. So popular has the plan become that an estimated 70,000 residents, about 10% of the city's population, are now rotating feverishly, caught up in a mad whirl to "Melt-a-Million" pounds collectively by mid-May. They are hoping to create a whole...

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