Let them eat cake for breakfast? The latest fad in dieting

How we consume is a measure of our wider fears and securities. What does the Marie Antoinette Diet tell us Dieting is boring. Doing it, talking about it, calculating the maths. Hearing other people's diet stories is rivalled only by hearing about their dreams for sheer conversational agony. Eat the muffin, don't eat the muffin; but while we stand here in line at Starbucks, do we have to have a three-act play about whether or not you're going to eat the muffin          

Cake about ourselves?