Currently developing various types of diets, ranging from high-protein diet, baby food diet, carbohydrate diet, until the blood type diet. Actually, the diet has been around since the 1700s era. Various ways done to get the ideal body weight including extreme ways.The following fifteen kinds of diets throughout history, as quoted from Womans Day.
1. 1727: Avoiding live around 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. 1800s: Hysteria hunger
During the second half of the 19th century, a form of "Anorexia Victoria" is done in the middle class and aristocracy in Western Europe. People deliberately make himself hungry to live in accordance with the Victorian idea, which is associated with spiritual purity and femininity.
3. 1820: Diet vinegar
A poet bulimia and anokreksia, Lord Byron popularized in the 1820s vinegar diet. The intention was to clean rancun in the body by drinking vinegar and water every day. But, what happens is he vomiting and diarrhea, and no wonder if his weight decreased.
4. 1903: Chewing without swallowing
An art curator from San Francisco, Horace Fletcher, known as 'The Great Masticator', after he lost 40 pounds weight. That's because he does not chew and swallow food. Fletcher diet, he chews every meal as much as 32 times (one for each tooth), then vomit. He did so with logic, the body will absorb the nutrients it needs without having to increase the weight of body weight.
5. 1925: Cigarette DietIt
Is difficult indeed 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 of raw meat
An Arctic continental wanderers, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the diet promotes extreme version that made the tribe Atkin quite effective. After living in the northern tundra, Stefansson was amazed at how healthy the Inuit, who live in the Arctic, although eating raw fish and whale blubber, without eating fruit or vegetables.
Stefansson so interested in diet and claimed she had to do it yourself and prove its effectiveness. He then went to New York's Bellevue Hospital, where doctors monitored his health for several months. After observation, he was declared healthy.
7. Early 1930s: Slimming SoapWash and remove fat in the bathroom?
Although 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 ordinary soap.
8. 1954: Diet of worms
When people know that the parasitic worms that live in the intestines, sucking nutrients and cause weight loss, there are some people who jusru use it. Some people began to swallow tapeworm cysts (tapeworm babies) to be able to eat much without having a headache thinking about weight loss. However, this diet could reap the controversy, because there are creepy facts about worms. The worm can grow to 25 feet, which can cause seizures, meningitis or dementia.
9. 1960: Diet sleep
Sleep done to suppress appetite and lose weight. That's the idea behind 'The Sleeping Beauty Diet', which was popularized in the 1960s. Followers of this diet is like Elvis Presley, lose weight by sleeping in a time of more than 8 hours each day.
10. 1961: No counting calories
Herman Taller, MD, states do not need to count calories when eating, as long as you avoid carbohydrates and eat foods high in fat and protein. How, you should wash your food with 80 grams of polyunsaturated vegetable oils, which are available in pills sold Taller.
In theory, when consumed together, oil and protein may shed fat, causing weight loss to 30 pounds in eight months. But, Taller get in trouble with the law when he used his book to promote a specific oil labels, and in 1967 he was convicted of fraud and conspiracy.
11. 1970san: Diet Prolinn
In the 1970s, Roger Linn, MD, recommends not need to eat anything except 'magic fluid' called Prolinn. Prolinn consists of ground animal horns, nails, skin, tendons, bones and other parts are given artificial flavors, colors and enzymes, in order to become liquid. This drink contains 400 calories and no nutrition. This diet can indeed make your body slim fast, but at least 58 people who tried this diet, heart disease.
12. 1980-2000s: Air DietThis diet requires that live only by air.
Breatharians (followers of this diet) believe that when humans discover the purest sense of the world, they no longer need food, water or sleep. An Australian woman named Jasmuheen, claiming to be Breatharian, and try to prove it. But, proving canceled after four days, when he was addressing his pupils dilated and he suffered acute dehydration.
13. 2000s: Diet blue glasses
Ever notice how fast food logos use red and yellow in their logos and restaurants? They said the two colors that stimulate appetite. In contrast, the blue color could be used to suppress appetite. A Japanese company uses this information to create a pair of sunglasses with blue lenses diet. This method is considered to change the food that looks tempting, should be unattractive, thereby reducing your desire to eat.
14. 2000s: Diet akunpunktur
The practice of acupuncture on the cartilage part can suppress your appetite. It was based on auricular acupuncture, a Chinese form of healing therapy, when the needle accidentally placed in the ear up to one week. That way, your body will adapt and diet is more effective.
Proponents of this method is said to stimulate pressure points on the ear can control the appetite. Weight loss methods have not proven effective, and can cause various harmful side effects, such as serious infections.
15. 2000s: Diet cotton ball
Who needs food when it can be filled with cotton balls to consume low-calorie. That's what fans of this diet is disclosed. Some people eat them in a dry state, but there is also a mencelupnya in gelatin so easily consumed. According lovers cotton diet, the stomach feel full and not body fat. Cotton fiber is high, but it's not the type of fiber needs of humans.
