People have struggled with being overweight is not always the case. There was a time when food was simple and healthy. It was a means of existence, the source of energy for life. But not a cult. However, with the growth of human welfare food has become more affordable, new overseas products, and people drowned in their own weaknesses. Today the whole of Europe frantically struggling with obesity. And for the first time with this problem humanity has faced in the nineteenth century. However, then the extra weight was a privilege of the nobility. It was at that time and began to appear the first diet. Often they were so extravagant, that's amazing. So, the top 10 most bizarre diets of the past:Acetic diet
The first documentary evidence of intentional and consistent diet is present in the biography of Lord Byron (the beginning of XIX century). Being a sickly man, he furiously tried to lose weight and achieve the "noble pallor". Why I stopped eating meat and started to exercise. However, neither pale, he added. And the blush was not in fashion. Because the Lord began to soak food in vinegar and even simply to drink acid, diluting it with water. The calculation was on the property of vinegar to break down fat. Pallor-the Lord has made, but died in the Prime of life. By modern standards, even young Byron was not in 36 years. The autopsy revealed that the internal organs of the Lord were very worn.
Vinegar diet has gained a rebirth in America 1970-H. Her supporters drank a few tablespoons of Apple cider vinegar before meals to suppress appetite. For those who could not bear the taste of acids, were even invented acetic tablets. However pohudatelny properties of vinegar people are clearly overestimated. The same effect has a glass of water drunk before lunch.
Chewing diet
At the dawn of the twentieth century, the baton insane nutrition picked up Dr. Horace Fletcher (Horace Fletcher). Fletcher stated that he was able to lose 18 kg exclusively chewing way. The doctor advised his contemporaries to chew each bite of food at least 30 times, whether it be meat, semolina or a mouthful of pudding. Still chew! Chewing diet has become extremely popular and mass. "The theory of long chewing" has spread among the wealthy and the common man. It hooked everything from writer Henry James, millionaire John D. Rockefeller to cadets of military academies. The Fletcher called the Great Shredder.
The banana diet
In 1934 in the United States was developed, perhaps the most attractive in the history of nutrition diet for the sweet tooth. Its author is Dr. George Harrop. Was the process of weight loss eating... bananas with cream (Bananas & Skim Milk Diet). But the ending was not so rosy and delicious. On this diet, few people lost a lot of weight, because it was hidden advertising banana company United Fruit Co. Although bananas and cream there is nothing harmful, on the contrary, the use of many: digestible protein, calcium, potassium, vitamins. However, in the difficult process of losing excess weight banana cream diet, of course, proved to be ineffective. And about the ethics of such advertising and does not speak.
Alcoholic diet
Perhaps, this is the oldest and the most thoughtless attempt to lose weight in a different way. She is the first author of the diet. The inventor of its historians believe William the Conqueror, king of England (1027/28-1087). At some point the king was faced with the unfortunate problem - no horse could not overpower his fat figure. Then brave Wilhelm decided to completely abandon food, replacing it with beer and wine. How this diet proved to be effective, history is silent, because soon after its inventor died after falling from a horse. It is unknown, however, how much he drank the king before perched on his horse, and killed it.
Explosive diet
But back in the twentieth century. It was then that the public has surfaced, perhaps, the most terrible diet today. In the 1930s, American doctors have noticed a dramatic weight loss in workers warehouses dealing with paints, drugs for baiting insects and explosives. What caused them to lose weight? Doctors found that in those goods that were stored in warehouses, contains dinitrophenol - a substance that enhances the metabolism and therefore burn fat reserves of the body. People simply lose weight by poison.
After the discovery of such "miraculous" properties of dinitrophenol began to use even in the Soviet army toning soldiers. In America the same tool with the same composition was widely publicised and used for weight loss. Dinitrophenol in total took more than 100 000 people. Several deaths and cases of loss of sight that stopped it.
Wormy diet
History has preserved the fact that our ancestors buried in a pile of manure to quickly postroynet. The effect of natural saunas acted, but not as fast as we would like. A truly sensational way to lose weight steel tape worms, and worms. Last swallowed jockeys at the races and riders in the circus. They kind of services needed to quickly lose excess weight.
The parasites were in fashion in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Newspaper advertising those times frequent references pills with extract of a tape worm. What really got in the bubble fearless buyers, it is not known. Supporters of this truly radical method of losing weight argued that with its help it is possible to lose 3-5 pounds per week. This diet some explain the miraculous weight loss one of the outstanding singers of the twentieth century, Maria Callas. For 16 months, she has lost 35 pounds.
In the late 1990s in the CIS all lost weight on a mysterious "Thai tablets". There is a version that is "it" was. The pack was sold 2 tablets: the first was launched in the body of the larva of the worm-parasite, the second killed him, when the desired weight has been reached.
Diet goldfish
These "worms", only "fish" diet was popular in America at the end of the 1930-ies. Then the next diet fever has gripped the United States. People had to swallow live fish to miserable helped them to cope with the eaten from the inside. It all started with a dispute: a graduate of Harvard University won the bet, for $ 10. swallowing innocent fish. This event marked the beginning of mass destruction dumb creatures. When the pet does not have fish, Newspapers began to publish medical calls to stop and think again, because swallowing live fish (which are often inhabited by parasites) can be dangerous for health.
Smoky diet
By the mid-twentieth century pohudatelny fever has reached such proportions that only a fool has not done this. To slender the ranks of pseudocatalase joined and tobacco magnates. Cigarettes have become advertising as a means to lose weight and maintain a slim figure for a long time, without sacrifice and effort. The slogan "Take a cigarette instead of candy" is so entrenched in the minds of that to this day many believe nicotine. Models and teenage girls deliberately smoke. Yes, and normal adults among the reasons for the failure to quit Smoking is often called the same: I do not want to recover.
Sleepy diet
Replacement meal sleep is also called "diet " Sleeping beauty". You sleep instead of eat or to suffer from hunger and violence against them. Just eat sleeping pills and laid in bed, and the waist is reduced, because the body for long hours does not receive the required energy.
The idea to fight with appetite with the help of sleeping pills can compete just like drinking vinegar or non-stop chewing. However, this method was popular, and how! In 1976 it lit up even the king of rock and roll Elvis Presley. Say, Elvis "rested" on this menu for a few days before the concert to get into their legendary white pants.
Diet "horns and hooves"
She was also called "diet last chance (The last chance diet). Really, this could go only from despair! In the late 1970s, Dr. Roger Lynn invented Prolinn - "miracle drink for weight loss" on the basis of horns, hoofs, skins, bones, tendons and other abattoir waste. Very extravagant option, completely lose appetite.
Its function, this cocktail has performed well. Why, because in the accompanying recommendations to the "protein" drink was said about total abstinence from food. Several times a day were allowed to violate the cruel post with a "Proline". A glass of ' vkusnjatinki" contains less than 400 calories. Drink Dr. Lynn soon recognized to be harmful to health.
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