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Fad Diets Throughout the Years

By jfshann
  • Cigaratte Diet

    Cigaratte Diet
    "Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet" We can obvioiusly say this wasn't one of the healthiest of diets.
  • The Drinking Man's Diet

    The Drinking Man's Diet
    The idea of this diet was to reduce the intake of carbohydrates and drink alcohol during every meal. The Harvard School of Public Health declared diet unhealthful.
  • Sleeping Beauty Diet

    Sleeping Beauty Diet
    This was about the craziest fad diet because the individual was actually heavily sedated for several days. This diet was made popular by Elvis.
  • Beverly Hills Diet

    Beverly Hills Diet
    Only aloud to eat fruit for the first 10 days but in unlimited amounts. A report published in The Journal of the American Medical Association criticized the diet, claiming it to be dangerous.
  • Cabbage Soup Diet

    Cabbage Soup Diet
    The claim of the diet is to lose 10 pounds in a week with heavy consumption of low-calorie cabbage soup over the span of seven days. It's shown that most of the weight you lose is water weight
  • The Cheaters Diet

    The Cheaters Diet
    Cheating is not optional on this diet but required. You are able to eat whatever you want on the weekends.
  • Maple Syrup Diet

    Maple Syrup Diet
    Consists of detox drinks consisting of a syrup mixed with lemon juice, water, and cayenne pepper for 2 weeks. This is also known as the Master Cleanse.
  • Blood Type Diet

    Blood Type Diet
    This diet recommends eating specific diets based on your blood type
  • Morning Banana Diet

    Morning Banana Diet
    The diet consited of eating a banana for breakfast, lunch, and a normal dinner, and going to bed befor midnight. This diet caused a shortage of bananas in grocery stores.
  • Baby Food Diet

    Baby Food Diet
    The basic idea of this diet is eating 14 jars of baby food a day and having an optional regular dinner.