How’s it going all of you most amazing top 10ers?
I’m your host Landon Dowlatsingh and before we get into this video I want to know, what
is the craziest diet you’ve ever been on?
I once did a 5 day juice cleanse, if you want to check out the results I had, head over
to my vlogging channel and watch this video.
Periodically people might feel the need to lose some weight and for most people, reducing
our caloric intake and exercising is the answer for healthy weight loss.
However, there is a lot of money in the weight loss industry so we are surrounded by crazy
and insanely dangerous diets that are promoted in the media.
So let’s take a look at the top 10 most insane diets.
Starting us off in at number 10 with Fletcherizing.
I want to change this diet name to the chocking hazard because in this diet people must chew
each mouthful 32 times while keeping their head tilted forward.
After chewing, they tilt their head back which should allow the food to slide down the throat.
Any food that did not naturally slide down must be spat out.
This diet was widely popular but I hope everyone who tried this diet was with someone who knew
the Heimlich maneuver.
And don’t even think about taking them to a restaurant, they would be spitting their
food every minute.
The sleeping beauty diet catches some Z’s in at number 9 . People on this ridiculous
diet sleep a lot, sometimes they even sleep for days.
The principle behind this diet is if you aren’t awake, you aren’t eating.
Some people even took things further and they decided to take heavy sedatives in order to
sleep for longer.
Ok yeah you are going to lose weight but it is so unhealthy and you are missing out on
so much because you are sleeping all the time.
Did these people book off work to diet or was this a weekend only diet?
The HCG diet comes in at number 8.
This is a 500-calorie diet that is combined with injections of a drug called Human Chorionic
Gonadatropin (HUMAN- CORY ONIC- GO NAD O TRO PIN) or HCG for short.
HCG is actually a fertility drug which is extracted from pregnant women’s urine.
What makes matters worse is that HCG has been tested in a dozen controlled clinical trials
and it isn’t even effective.
It is like a placebo effect.
But there are so many people out there that follow this diet and claim that it works.
Well yeah, you are starving yourself with 500 calories a day.
Even if you didn’t do the HCG injections you would get the same results.
Number 7 brings us to The master cleanse.
The name sounds pretty legit right?
Wrong.
This diet involves people only drinking lemon water infused with maple syrup and cayenne
pepper for ten days straight.
I’d literally crawl up in a corner and die if that’s all I had to eat or drink for
ten days.
This diet has been around since the 40’s and ever since then, it has become very popular
in Hollywood.
Does it work?
Well its basically starving yourself so you will lose weight but say goodbye to your muscles
and strength.
How about instead of doing a dangerous cleanse, you cleanse your refrigerator and cupboard
of junk food instead.
The Cigarette and nicotine diet puffs its way into number 6.
Wow, how is this a real diet?
Nicotine is a stimulant that is said to supress your appetite while keeping your brain satisfied.
It can help you lose weight but it also comes with a lot of negative health consequences.
The cigarette diet might work in the short run but in the long run you will not only
gain the weight back but you will have a new set of health problems to deal with.
So I don’t think a six pack is worth getting lung cancer.
Now in at number 5 we have The tongue patch diet.
Doctors will sew a patch of plastic mesh onto the patient’s tongue so that it is harder
to eat or swallow.
It even causes pain and discomfort when you try to eat while the patch is attached.
There is a cosmetic doctor in the United States that charges $2000 for this procedure and
promises that you will lose 18-20 pounds in just 30 days.
This diet also comes with an 800-calorie liquid that you drink each day until the patch comes
off.
What ever happened to just eating better, portion control or exercising.
This sounds too extreme and uncomfortable.
The feeding tube diet makes it way into number 4.
This crazy diet promises that you will lose 20 pounds in 10 days and it is a very popular
diet for brides to be.
It involves inserting a feeding tube into your nose so that it runs directly to your
stomach.
The dieter is fed a slow and steady drip of protein and fat that equals to about 800 calories
a day and zero carbohydrates.
Doctors are charging $1500 for this ten day plan and side effects include fatigue, bad
breath, constipation.
Tapeworm diet creeps us out in at number 3.
If someone suggested this diet to me, I’d run far away.
Most people who have tape worms try to get rid of them ASAP but you’re telling me that
there are people who actually want this gross parasite to grow inside of them?
It is illegal to import tapeworms into the US (thankfully) but there are tapeworm farms
in Mexico and in Africa where tourists can go to get “safely” infected.
This diet claims to work because the tapeworms attach to your intestinal tract and absorb
the nutrients from the food you eat.
People say you can lose 1-2 pounds per week.
No thanks, I don’t think this diet is for me.
And now in at number 2 is Breatharianism (BREATH ARIAN ISM) So this diet requires you to eat
nothing.
Yeah, that’s right, you are literally starving yourself.
Some people who are on this “diet” claim that they continue living due to the energy
from the sun.
There are even courses on this topic that will charge you $10,000 to get you started.
Hmm, I think I’ll save my money and use it towards food so that I wont die.
Last chance diet comes in at number 1.
Well this diet sounds exciting doesn’t it.
Dr. Roger Linn invented this diet as a quick fix but it is essentially the same thing as
starving yourself and depriving your body.
People on this diet consume nothing except a low-calorie liquid concoction that has less
than 400 calories.
This disgusting liquid drink is citrus flavoured and it contains ground up and crushed animal
horns, hooves, hides, tendons, bones and other slaughterhouse by-products.
This sounds disgusting I would never want to try this diet out.
Well there you guys have it…