Powerful and Unique Ways Diet

You want to be skinny or slim. People willing to do anything to lose weight, even the most absurd though. Here is a list of all the world's weirdest diet of various ages. Remember, this list is NOT to be copied!

Year 1727: Stay away from the swamp

In 1727, Thomas Short wrote a thesis about how overweight people tend to live near the swamp. Her advice, overweight people who have to move to drier areas to avoid the effects of marsh life. It is probably not the best diet strategy, but at least the suggestion choosing the right housing

Year 1800: Famine

In the mid-19th century, middle class and aristocratic circles of Western Europe alive in famine in order to meet the standards of thinness Victorian era, which is associated with purity and femininity.

Year 1820: Diet vinegar

Poet who suffered anorexia and bulimia, Lord Byron, vinegar diet popularized in 1820. To cleanse himself, he would drink lots of vinegar and water every day, plus a glass of tea with a raw egg. The effect is vomiting and diarrhea. No wonder he was so skinny.

Year 1903: Just chew

An art dealer Horace Fletcher of San Francisco known as the 'King of Chewing' after successfully losing 20 pounds to chew ... and do not swallow. After being too skinny, he changed his methods to be chewed 32 times and discard the waste. According to Horace, his body will absorb the nutrients needed without adding weight.

Year 1925: Diet cigarettes

It's hard to imagine that cigarettes are used as a diet, but the past, several cigarette companies promote cigarettes can reduce hunger. Lucky Strike and even an ad reads "Turn on Lucky and you'll never miss sweets that make you fat."

Year 1928: A diet of meat and fat

North polar explorer, Vilhjalmur Stefánsson very impressed with the healthiness of the Inuit despite only eating caribou meat, raw fish, and rarely eat vegetables or fruit. Stefánsson claimed he had tried this diet and prove its effectiveness. Doctors checked his health for several months and he declared healthy.

Beginning the year 1930: Soaps slimming

Remove fat with water? It sounded so beautiful! In early 1930, appears the product as "Fatoff," "Fat-O-NO" and "La-Mar Reducing Soap" that can make the wearer menglaim thin with only a shower. However, this soap did not have a magic spell. They're just regular soap from potassium chloride and other materials.

Year 1954: Diet tapeworm

You may be disgusted by parasitic worms that live in the intestines and absorb nutrients from the body. But for some people, this is actually used as a way to weight loss. A group of people started eating the worm cysts in order to eat without getting fat. Side effects including tapeworms maintain that the worms can grow in the yards of the intestines, causing meningitis or dementia.

Year 1960: Diet sleep

The logic behind this diet is: You do not eat when you sleep. So if you sleep more, your weight will drop. Followers of this diet (such as Elvis Presley) will try to sleep for days to lose weight.

Year 1980-2000: Diet breath

Most diets recommend us to reduce certain foods, like meat, kabohidrat or sugar. But diet breath demanded his followers to leave EVERYTHING. You should only eat air. Diet respiratory believe if humans live in harmony, so you do not need anymore food or sleep.

Year 2000: Diet eye

Ever noticed how many fast food restaurants use red and yellow in their logos? It is said that these colors stimulate the appetite. Instead of blue is able to reduce appetite. A Japanese company, creating a bluish colored glasses diet that makes food look unattractive and makes you not want to eat.

Year 2000: ear pinning

Method suppress appetite by clipping inner ear cartilage is based on Chinese acupuncture, where needles left on the ears for a week. Then the clamps are left behind during the six weeks to three months, after that your body will get used and lose their effectiveness. This method has not proven effective, in fact it can cause ear infections and damage.

Year 2000: Diet cotton

Who needs to eat if the cotton is not calorie can make you full? Followers of this diet to eat it dry, or dyed gelatin. Cotton fibers contain many, unfortunately, not the fiber of human needs.