- Hey, have you heard of the latest diet craze?
It's called sleep-cercize.
All you have to do is go to sleep
and get a huge workout in in your dreams
and then thrown in a few vegetables in real life
and presto, a slimmer you!
Oh you, you thought that was ridiculous?
And you'd be right, but it's just as crazy
as some of the real insane methods that people are using
right now, or think they're using,
you get my point.
If you've ever heard of those crazy diet trends
and you wonder if they actually work,
well more than a few are likely to be on this list,
so let's jump right into it.
Here are the 10 craziest diet trends that ever existed.
Number one is the Chewing Diet
slash Fletcher Diet.
(gnaws tongue)
I can feel myself losing the calories already.
The first strange diet on this list
was introduced Horace Fletcher in the early 1990s.
His diet plan recommended chewing each mouthful of food
at least 32 times or until it became completely liquefied
and anything that couldn't be ingested
by tilting your head back
and letting it run down your throat,
would be spat out.
Surprisingly, there are actually some
proven scientific benefits behind using this diet
as taking your time to eat will actually help satisfy
your hunger and allow you to eat less,
so the diet actually did help some people lose weight
but I'm sure that the incessant chewing helped some people
lose more annoying dinner partners than pounds.
(gnaws tongue)
I'm down, lost five pounds.
(gnaws tongue)
Number two is the Cabbage Soup Diet.
(groans)
Cabbage...
The Cabbage Soup Diet involves eating lots of cabbage soup
over the course of a week.
Cabbage soup is very low in calories
and can be high in salt, depending on the recipe.
The diet allows for a few fruits here and there
but mostly you'd only be eating cabbage.
Though this crash diet has helped some
lose up to 10 pounds over the course of a week,
most of it was lost from water weight and not fat,
meaning that it's a very temporary solution.
The cabbage soup diet comes with a list
of side effects that include loss of energy,
light headedness, and gas, as well as having to deal
with eating soggy bland cabbage.
(groans)
I think I'll pass.
Number three is the Caveman Diet.
Hooga booga.
The Caveman Diet takes its name from
our paleolithic human ancestors,
who ate very simple meals more than 10,000 years ago.
The diet consists of items that may be cooked
like meats, fish, fruits, and nuts,
but removes any foods that are produced or refined
in any way like grains, oil, salt, sugars,
or dairy products.
The diet was created to align us
with the health of prehistoric humans
and reduce the possibility of infection
with sickness and disease by cutting out
commonly eaten process foods, so if you love wheat products,
this might not be the dieting evolution
that you want to be a part of.
Breads, I want more breads.
Number four is the Shangri-La Diet.
The Shangri-La Diet was introduced
by psychologist Seth Roberts in 2006
as a way to help people control their urge
to eat large portions of food.
(grumbles)
The method involves ingesting up to three tablespoons
of extra lite olive oil and up to two tablespoons
of sugar water.
This is to give your body calories that aren't associated
with any tasty and flavorful foods.
Supposedly, the more you practice this,
the more that your mind will disassociate calories
with tasty food, therefore making you crave them
less and less.
Essentially, drinking the oil and sugar water
will just suppress your appetite and make you want
to eat less at meal times which makes you lose weight.
Ah this diet came out in 2006,
and Men In Black came out in 1997,
which makes me think that this guy
got the idea from Edgar the Bug.
Edgar, you're skin is hanging off your bones.
Sugar and water (chuckles), more, more, yeah.
Number five is Luigi Cornaro's Diet.
Luigi Cornaro was an Italian nobleman and writer
in the late 1400s.
He was in pretty bad health at the age of 40
until he met with doctors who advised him
to end his life of drinking and binging on food.
They recommended he limit his diet down
to 350 grams of food a day and 414 milliliters of wine,
that's very specific.
After following the doctor's advice,
Carnaro began to actually feel better
and within a year, he was back to a state
of perfect health.
Apparently his diet only consisted of a small portion
of meat, a small tomato soup, bread,
and an egg yolk.
But even with such little food,
his body thrived until he lived
until a very old age of 105.
His small calorie diet has been taken up by many since then,
but no one has quiet been able to replicate
Cornaro's astounding results.
Realistically though, who wants to live 'til 105.
I can't hear or see anybody,
but I'm assuming I'm still alive.
Number six is the Vision Diet,
not be confused with the see food diet
which is when you see food, you eat it.
The Vision Diet was introduced in Japan in the late 2000s
in the form of wearing a pair of sunglasses
with blue tinted lenses as a way
to curb people's appetites through changing
the color of the food that they see.
The reason behind the change of color was
that the foods that are in the yellow or red spectrum color
are allegedly more appetizing,
but if you change those colors to a cooler blue color,
it would remove the desire because the blue food
doesn't look as good.
Yeah, there's no real proof behind the weight loss benefits
of this diet other than you may just think
that you're gorging yourself with food
made by Smurfs, which kind of sounds amazing.
Number seven is the Cotton Ball Diet.
The Cotton Ball Diet literally involves eating cotton balls.
That's it, next one? No?
You want more detail? Okay!
Apparently, cotton balls cause you to feel full
but without the calories of actual food.
Cotton balls are actually very high in fiber
and low in calories, but eating them regularly
while on this diet will cause big issues
with your digestive system as well as
deprive you of the nutrients that you need
from, you know, real food.
Dieters would either swallow the cotton balls dry,
(gags) or they would place them in gelatin and eat them.
One benefit that isn't mentioned
is that you'll always get a laugh
after you eat a meal if you say that you're stuffed.
(chuckles)
But doonze, I'm sorry, that was awful.
Number eight is the Sleeping Beauty Diet.
The Sleeping Beauty Diet is so easy to follow
you can do it with your eyes closed, seriously.
Sleeping pills and other sedatives
are the main ingredient to this diet,
which recommends that you pretty much drug yourself to sleep
and try not to wake up as often as possible
so as to not eat, AKA coma diet.
Believe it or not, this diet was taken up
by the rock and roll legend himself, Elvis Presley,
during his later years in an effort
to take off some of the pounds before his tour.
There's a hunk a hunk of burning sleep.
While the diet does allow you to catch up
on all that missed sleep, it also forces your body
to burn off some of your stored calories
since you aren't eating anything at all,
'cause you're sleeping.
Sleeping the pounds away may sound like a dream
but depriving your body of nutrients
can cause some serious health nightmares.
Number nine is the Sun Diet.
This strange diet comes from China where a number of women
stand outdoor with sunglasses, veils, and umbrellas
while they stare at the sun for 44 minutes straight.
Oh well that sounds like fun,
let me just stand, I'm blind.
This may seem like an odd practice and it is,
but according to the Sun Diet,
staring at the sun for a prolonged period
will help to restore nutrients to your body
through the sun's energy.
(grumbles)
The diet also claims to improve eye sight and sleep quality.
Improve eye sight?
Using the sun as an entire meal replacement
has helped some people shed pounds
but at the cost of having massive sun spots
in their vision and increasing their risk
of developing skin cancer through exposure
to the sun's ultraviolet rays.
Let's also consider the, you know, blindness.
And number 10 is the Tapeworm Diet.
(gags)
We end our list of bizarre diets
with the one that could literally make your stomach crawl.
(gasps)
The Tapeworm Diet is a fairly easy diet to start
and then maintains since the only real work involved
is to eat meat infested with tapeworms.
Allow me to explain.
The tapeworm is ingested while it's in its infancy
and then it's allowed to grow and attach itself
to the inside of your intestines
where it steals its nutrients
from the food that you're digesting.
The dangers of this diet include everything,
but also the risk of the tapeworm producing
its own waste inside of you causing nausea,
diarrhea, and bloating.
And if the tapeworm reproduces,
it can lead to more serious effects
like, I dunno, seizures.
The tapeworm diet has allegedly helped some people
dropped one to two pounds a week,
and it has actually created businesses
in parts of Mexico and Africa
where tapeworm farms are run for tourists
looking to get some parasitic assistance
for their caloric intake.
No thanks, I don't want worms pooping inside of me, K, bye.
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