{"id":969,"date":"2011-07-30T09:15:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T14:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lindasdietdelites.com\/blog\/?p=969"},"modified":"2013-12-29T16:50:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T21:50:23","slug":"6-bizarre-fad-diets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindasdietdelites.com\/blog\/6-bizarre-fad-diets\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Bizarre Fad Diets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here at Linda\u2019s Diet Delight<\/a> we encourage healthy eating as a way of weight loss.\u00a0 Following both low carb<\/a> and low calorie diets are both effective and healthy ways of losing weight and changing the way you eat food forever. \u00a0\u00a0However, every now and again some very strange and weird diets do the circuit, usually with supposed celebrity endorsement.\u00a0\u00a0 We look at some of the most bizarre diets that have been around in recent years.<\/p>\n

Cabbage Soup Diet<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obviously a diet that consists of only eating just one thing is going to get very boring, very quickly.\u00a0 However, this diet will probably have you losing friends quickly as well, not only will your house smell disgusting, but imagine the windy effect that consuming that much cabbage will have.<\/p>\n

Cayenne Pepper Diet<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also known as the Master Cleanse Diet it\u2019s reportedly backed by many an A-list celebrity, this concoction of maple syrup, lemon juice and cayenne pepper must leave you absolutely ravenous.\u00a0 Sure, you\u2019ll lose some weight, I mean, there isn\u2019t any actual solid food in this diet, but you\u2019ll probably lose the will to live by day 2.<\/p>\n

Twinkie Diet<\/strong><\/p>\n

A diet that consists of eating cake certainly has its appeal, but we rather suspect that it wanes rather rapidly.\u00a0 Severely lacking in anything remotely healthy, we can only imagine this diet regime would have you feeling very ill.<\/p>\n

Baby Food Diet<\/strong><\/p>\n

Regress and embrace your inner infant by going out and buying some jars of baby food.\u00a0 Instead of eating your regular meals, have a jar of pureed mush instead.\u00a0\u00a0 Quite besides how hideous they probably taste to an adult, the lack of being able to chew, the loss of any texture (except for mush), and the minute portions will have you falling off this wagon quicker than you can say goo-goo gaa-gaa.<\/p>\n

Tapeworm Diet<\/strong><\/p>\n

This diet consists of digesting beef tapeworm eggs and then allowing the tapeworms to grow in your intestines.\u00a0 The tapeworms will then eat all the excess food in your system so that you are free to eat as you like, which is about as medieval as it gets.\u00a0\u00a0 You don\u2019t get to keep the tapeworms forever though; as soon as you\u2019ve reached your goal weight you can take some medicine to kill the parasites.\u00a0 Side effects from this bizarre diet include vomiting, diarrhea, malnutrition, squashed internal organs and possible death. Nice!<\/p>\n

The Air Diet<\/strong><\/p>\n

The principal behind this diet is that we don\u2019t change the foods we eat or embark on a vigorous exercise regime, no this diet apparently works by simply breathing.\u00a0\u00a0 Allegedly the more air you breathe, the more weight you lose.\u00a0 A big selling point to this diet is that you can do it anywhere, breathe that is, just in case you weren\u2019t doing it before!<\/p>\n

When you think about how the mischaracterization of the low carb diet as a “bizarre fad diet” has endured ever since Vogue<\/em> Magazine published Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution<\/em> in the late 1960s, you can see how unfair it is for diet and nutrition world to equate the restriction of carbs in one’s diet to one of these completely unfounded diets. While there is no doubt that the restriction of calories is the most obvious approach to weight loss, the restriction of carbs has clearly been proven to be just as viable and effective, and certainly deserving of a better moniker from the mainstream health organizations just a “fad diet.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here at Linda\u2019s Diet Delight we encourage healthy eating as a way of weight loss.\u00a0 Following both low carb and low calorie diets are both effective and healthy ways of losing weight and changing the way you eat food forever. \u00a0\u00a0However, every now and again some very strange and weird diets do the circuit, usually … Continue reading 6 Bizarre Fad Diets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[198],"tags":[385],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindasdietdelites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindasdietdelites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindasdietdelites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindasdietdelites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindasdietdelites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindasdietdelites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindasdietdelites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindasdietdelites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindasdietdelites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindasdietdelites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}