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If you’re starting to feel sucked into the mindset that you must lose weight after Christmas, don’t fall for the dieting fads that come around every year. No matter what the adverts tell you, there is no quick solution and if it is quick, then chances are you’ll just put it all on again. What you DON’T want to do is try some of these odd diets...
5. The Cotton Wool Diet
Yes this one really is as stupid as it sounds. The premise is that you eat cotton wool balls, soaked in various liquids like orange juice to try and trick your stomach into thinking that you’ve eaten proper food. Despite the fact that it’s been medically condemned as extremely dangerous and occasionally fatal, its reputation as a “supermodel’s trick” has given it a false glamour that many people are foolish enough to believe.
4. The Ear Stapling Diet
Just when you thought that dieting fads couldn’t get any weirder, this one turns up. Apparently an acupuncturist’s trick, the idea is to have your ear cartilage stapled, which “manipulates the pressure points” in your ears to suppress your appetite. Of course even if it does work, the ear is highly prone to infection and is considered so dangerous that in Florida it has even been made illegal. Perhaps extreme pain works as a diet tool.
3. The Baby Food Diet
Touted as a celebrity favourite (Reese Witherspoon, Jenifer Aniston and Madonna have all been reported to have tried this), the baby food diet is pretty self-explanatory. You eat, well, baby food. The diet of choice for hip, trendy yummy mummies, it appeals because most baby food is organic and does not contain any preservatives or additives. The fact that baby food is mostly tasteless mush doesn’t seem to deter its followers.
2. Diet Sunglasses
This “diet” works on the premise that if your food looks blue you’re going to find it disgusting. Yes, simply pop on these blue-tinted sunglasses whilst you eat and feel instantly less hungry! The “science” bit claims that the colour blue suppresses the appetite, and if your food looks less appealing, you’ll eat less of it. Apart from the fact that you look like a fool every time you eat (you’d never want to go to a restaurant again), the sunglasses’ main flaw is that no matter how disgusting your food looks, if you’re hungry enough you’ll eat it.
1. The Worm Diet
And last but not least, putting worms into your body! Yes folks, if you fancy losing a bit of weight, simply have a tapeworm or roundworm into your body and let those friendly critters eat up all your food for you! Well that’s the theory anyway. In practice the worms also inject toxins into the body and have been known to cause numerous symptoms ranging from vomiting and diarrhoea to lung failure and death. Best to be avoided.
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