The strangest diet in the world

The strangest diet in the world

Currently developing various types of diets, ranging from a high protein diet, baby food diet, carbohydrate diet, until the blood type diet. In fact, the diet has been around since the 1700s era. Various methods are used to get the ideal body weight including extreme ways.

 Here's How To Diet Most Bizarre World:

1. 1727: Avoid staying in the swamp In 1727, Thomas Short wrote a treatise entitled "The Causes and Effects of Corpulence '. To make the text short observation and conclusion, people who live around the swamp, tend to overweight. He recommends that people should vote and move to a dry place to avoid the side effects of the swamp.

2. 1800: Hysteria hunger During the second half of the 19th century, a form of "Anorexia Victoria" is done in the middle class and the aristocracy in Western Europe. People starve themselves to live up to the idea of ​​Victoria, which is associated with spiritual purity and femininity.

3. 1820: Vinegar Diet An anorexic and bulimic poet, Lord Byron popularized in the 1820s vinegar diet. Rancun intention was to clean the body by drinking vinegar and water every day. But, what happens is he vomiting and diarrhea, and I wonder if the lost weight.

4. 1903: Chewing without swallowing An art curator from San Francisco, Horace Fletcher was known as 'The Great Masticator', after he lost 40 pounds of weight. That's because he does not chew and swallow food. Fletcher diet, he chewed each food 32 times (one for each tooth), and vomit. By his logic, the body will absorb the nutrients it needs without packing on the pounds.

5. 1925: Cigarette Diet It is hard to imagine cigarette advertisements promoting healthy life. However, in 1920, several tobacco companies in the United States, to promote tobacco products by highlighting the advantages 'can eliminate your appetite'.

6. 1928: Diet raw meat An Arctic continental wanderers, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the diet promotes extreme version done quite effective interest Atkin. Having lived in the northern tundra, Stefansson was amazed at how healthy the Inuit, who live in the Arctic, despite eating raw fish and whale blubber, without eating fruit or vegetables.

Stefansson was so interested in diet and claimed he had done it himself, and to prove its effectiveness. He then went to New York's Bellevue Hospital, where doctors monitored his health for several months. After observation, she was otherwise healthy.

7. Early 1930s: Slimming Soap Wash and remove fat in the shower? While it sounds impossible, slimming soap is quite popular in the 1930s, in the United States. Soap products labeled 'Fatoff', 'Fat-O-NO' and 'La-Mar Reducing Shop', managed to induce women to buy. Although the soap company claims can reduce fat, but the products are actually like regular soap.

8. 1954: Diet of worms When people know that parasitic worms that live in the gut, suck the nutrients and cause weight loss, there are some people who jusru use. Some people began to swallow tapeworm cysts (baby tapeworms) to be able to eat without having a headache thinking about weight loss. However, this diet could reap controversy, because there are creepy facts about worms. The worm can grow up to 25 feet, which can cause seizures, meningitis or dementia.