Currently developing various types of diets, ranging from high-protein diets, baby food diet, carbohydrate diet, to diet blood type. Actually, the diet has been around since the 1700s. Various methods are used to obtain the ideal 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 a short post of observation and conclusion, people who live around the swamp, tend to overweight. He recommended people should vote and move to a dry place to avoid the side effects of the swamp.
2. 1800: 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 are hungry himself intentionally made to live in accordance with the Victorian idea, which is associated with spiritual purity and femininity.
3. 1820: Diet vinegar
Bulimia and anokreksia poet, Lord Byron popularized the diet of vinegar in 1820an. The intention was to clean the rancun in the body by drinking vinegar and water every day. But, what happens is he vomiting and diarrhea, and no wonder if the weight decreases.
4. 1903: Chewing without swallowing
An art curator of the origin of San Francisco, Horace Fletcher known as 'The Great Masticator', after he lost 40 pounds of weight. That's because he does not chew and swallow food. Fletcher diet, he chewed the food as much as 32 times each (one for each tooth), then spat it out. He did it with logic, the body will absorb the nutrients needed without having to increase the weight of body weight.
5. 1925: Cigarette Diet
It is difficult indeed to imagine cigarette advertisements promoting healthy life. However, in 1920s, several tobacco companies in the United States, to promote tobacco products by emphasizing the advantages 'can eliminate your appetite'.
6. 1928: A diet of raw meat
An Arctic continental wanderers, Vilhjalmur Stefánsson, promoting that diet extreme version performed quite effectively Atkin tribe. After living in the northern tundra, Stefánsson amazed at how healthy the Inuit, who live in the Arctic, although eating raw fish and whale blubber, without eating fruit or vegetables.
Stefánsson so interested in the 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: Soap slimming
Wash 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 fool the ladies to buy. Although the soap company claims can reduce fat, but the products were actually like regular soap.
8. 1954: Diet of worms
When people know that the parasitic worms that live in the intestines, sucking nutrients and causing weight loss, there are some people who take advantage jusru. Some people began to swallow the tapeworm cysts (tapeworm baby) 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 these worms. The worm can grow to 25 feet, so that it can cause seizures, meningitis or dementia.
9. 1960: Diet sleep
Sleep carried out 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 as Elvis Presley, lose weight by sleeping in a time of more than eight 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. The trick, you should wash your food with 80 grams of polyunsaturated vegetable oils, which are available in pills sold Taller.
In theory, when consumed together, the oil can shed fat and protein, which decreased to 30 kg of body weight 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 'miraculous' called Prolinn. Prolinn consists of ground animal horns, hooves, skin, tendons, bones and other parts are given artificial flavor, color and enzymes, in order to become liquid. This drink contains 400 calories and no nutrients. This diet can indeed make a slim body quickly, but at least 58 people who tried this diet, heart disease.
12. 1980-2000s: Air Diet
This diet requires that live on the air. Breatharians (followers of this diet) believe that when human beings find meaning in the purest in the world, they no longer need food, water or sleep. An Australian woman named Jasmuheen, admitted as Breatharian, and try to prove it. But the proof was canceled after four days, when he was addressing his pupils dilate 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 the appetite. Conversely, 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 be changing the food that looks tempting, to be not attractive, thus 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 installed in the ear up to a week. That way, your body will adapt and diet is more effective.
Advocates of this method is said to stimulate pressure points on the ear can control your appetite. Weight-loss methods have not proven effective, and can cause various harmful side effects, such as serious infections.
15. 2000s: Diet cotton balls
Who needs food when it can be stuffed 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 dipped in gelatin so easily consumed. According lovers cotton diet, stomach feels full, and the body is not fat. Cotton fiber is high, but that's not the type of fiber needs of humans.
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