Diets have always been subject to fads. There was a point when the South Beach Diet was only known in South Beach, Miami. Then, it becomes known in a slightly larger sector until it finally hit the tipping point at which time the theory of innovation predicts it will become an overwhelming favorite.
About the middle of the 1990s, Baltimore had an epidemic of syphilis. Although you can control this disease with antibiotics, it increased by 500 percent from 1995 to 1996. Health care professionals attributed this to the innovation of the use of crack cocaine and the resultant sexual promiscuity resulting from its use. Not all innovation gives you a positive result.
Doctor Seth Harlow in Vermont had the idea to inject dye into the location where a cancerous melanoma was being removed, The dye was then transported by the body to the nearest lymph nodes which were removed and biopsied for cancer. This new technique has spread widely throughout the medical field and now can save your life.