Hey YouTube, Jim here! Welcome to Top10Archive! It takes some serious work to keep a good figure.
I completely get the temptation over a freshly made doughnut! With those extra calories, though,
comes a profitable business to help you lose them. For perhaps thousands of years,
we've created some interesting techniques and ways to achieve a healthy figure. Today, we’re
going through the top 10 craziest diets! Be sure to tell us about the craziest diets you've tried
or heard of in the comments below! 10. Fletcherizing
Named after the creator of the diet, Horace Fletcher, this strange method is all about
chewing. The mantra Fletcher came up with said, “Nature will castigate those who don’t masticate,”
which is a weird way of saying, “Chew your food or it’ll come back to bite you in the
butt/hips/thighs, or some other part of your body. By participating in Fletcherizing,
dieters would have to chew every mouthful of food 32 times while tilting their head forward. Once
they were done, they’d tilt their head back and allow everything they chewed to slide down their
throat. Whatever didn’t slide down had to be spat out. I know what you’re thinking, “I’d just make
smoothies,” but Fletcher advocated for chewing liquids and not eating if you were feeling down.
9. Snake Diet
Yes, you heard that correctly. A fasting coach whose certifications we can’t vouch for named
Cole Robinson created this diet. According to him, the human body needs only one meal a few times
per week. The name isn’t really clear with this one, because you won’t quite be eating snakes,
but rather like a snake. You fast for 48 hours, have a huge protein-packed meal eaten in 1-2 hours
(that’s how big it is), and then fast for another 22 hours and get used to your new horrible
lifestyle. It allegedly leads to rapid weight loss but at a large cost. With that few meals,
you don’t get nearly enough nutrients and you’ll likely bounce back to an even heavier weight than
before once you’re done. 8. Placenta Pills
Not sure if this actually counts as a diet, as really it’s more of a supplement, but it’s
still kind of shocking. After giving birth, some celebrities have been known to turn their placenta
into pills, or just in small pieces to eat. Some have them in a smoothie, blended up with fruits
and veggies, that can help you forget the fact that you’re actively eating your birth liquids. As
much as this sounds like a celebrity-inspired fad, this practice actually goes back many generations.
7. The Vision Diet Have you ever heard that
eating starts through the eyes? That’s what followers of the vision diet believe. They
think anything is only as appetizing as it looks. The founder of the diet, a Japanese inventor,
believed food in the red/yellow spectrum looked most appetizing, while blue the least. So he set
the rules for one of the strangest diets I’ve ever seen. What are the rules? You can’t eat unless
you’re wearing blue-tinted glasses. The glasses would in theory make you want to eat less. So,
before you go out and buy a pair of glasses, let’s answer the real question. Does it work? Sorry to
disappoint, but there’s no evidence either way. It’s unknown whether it really makes a difference,
but maybe just keeping a good relationship with food sounds better. What do you think?
6. Last Chance Diet Despite the urge to call this a
“diet,” we have to admit this is really more of a fast. It comes from a time in the 1970s when
people tried not eating at all, by drinking a mysterious cocktail made by the developer,
Dr. Robert Linn. The drink was made of protein from animal horns, hooves, hides, tendons, bones,
and other byproducts. In total, they’d still only get about 400 calories a day and be quite weak,
not strong enough to do many activities at all. It seems like the “doctor” who started
it truly doesn’t give you the calories needed to function, so it’s not recommended at all.
5. Fruitarianism Unlike vegetarianism, which really means you don’t
eat meat but eat everything else, the so-called “fruitarianism” is a diet of nothing but fruits.
If that isn’t already concerning, listen to this. Those who apply it believe that originally,
Adam and Eve’s diet was all fruit and that eating like this is what’s required in order to return
to an “Eden-like paradise”. The problem? The list of vitamins, minerals, and essential parts of your
diet you miss out on with just fruit is long. Vitamins D, B, Calcium, Protein, Iron, Zinc,
and fatty acids. Plus, fruits open your appetite, which is why they’re often served before a meal.
You might suffer from hunger, cravings, obsession, social isolation, and more huge problems.
4. Bible Diet So if that’s not the Bible diet, what is? It’s
also called “The Maker’s Diet”, and is based on “clean” foods or those that are acceptable to God.
A man named Jordan S. Rubin first started claiming that this was his savior from Chron’s disease when
he was 19, and started converting others to it. Then the FDA came along and had to put their foot
down with Jordan’s company, “Garden of Life Inc.", after they continued to make claims about its
products and supplements that had no scientific backing at all. There is a big spiritual aspect
to the so-called diet, which includes reflecting on your life purpose every morning as well as
praying when you get hungry, but the actual eating part is done in three phases. Most of it
focuses on restricting pork, bacon, ostrich, ham, sausages, emu, fish, seafood, and imitation meat.
3. The “Nothing But…” Diets These have to be some of the craziest
and most dangerous diets. When someone tells you to limit your food to not just one group,
but one ingredient, the only sane response is to just laugh. One of these diets is the “all potato”
diet, started by a farmer named Christ Voigt, who tried to prove a point by eating nothing but
potatoes for 60 days. He lost 20 pounds and probably the liking of potatoes altogether.
There’s also the Twinkie diet, backed by crazy people who only ate Twinkies. The Chocolate diet,
which mainly only works because it’s said to make your body lose interest in chocolate.
2. Tapeworm Diet Kind of like the “salmonella” diet, or the
“break-up diet” where you lose weight thanks to the horrible situation you find yourself in,
the tapeworm diet goes much the same. Your body sheds weight because of what it’s experiencing.
In this case, a tapeworm that you intentionally eat. You let this tapeworm grow until it’s fully
mature and then take pills to poop it out. Advocates of this diet say you can lose 1-2
pounds a week with the method, but it’s not very safe to make yourself sick on purpose,
ingesting a live parasite, and depriving your body of nutrients. Tapeworms aren’t even legal
to import, which is why some organizations run tourist attractions to get infected “safely”.
The truth is, you could die from one of these experiments, so please don't do it.
1. The Ice Cream Cleanse I know what you’re thinking:
another “nothing-but diet?” No, this is not just an all ice cream diet, it’s actually
an extreme version of one. It’s expensive, it’s fatty, and it’s a childhood dream for all of us.
As adults? Not so much. Here’s how it goes down. You eat 5 pints of special ice cream every day
for three days. The ice cream is made from coconut cream and honey
and is supposed to control the caloric intake to give you just short of what you need - which
is what produces weight loss. The thing is... what happens after the weight loss?
As soon as you reintroduce your regular diet, there’s usually not just a re-gain of the weight
you lost - but also additional weight on top of that. All ice cream diet? Probably still a no-go.
Thanks for watching! Do you know of any other crazy diets? I’d suggest what always seems to
work - eat a bit less, exercise a little more, and have a healthy, happy attitude toward life!
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