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Friday, November 19, 2004
 
Lose more than just weight
Raju, since you asked for it ... Some amazing weightloss plans across the years...

500 B.C: Vegetarianism: Pythagoras
Diet not to lose weight, but to ensure you are not eating your grandmother or another relative, whose soul could have transmigrated to your neighbour’s pig!

45 B.C.: Puke-ism: Romans in the time of Caesar
There were special rooms in which to expel their feasts. They would purge between courses to make room for the next round! Doesn't make you thin.

1 AD-2000 AD: The Jesus Diet
Almost all diseases and pains can be healed by prayer and fasting. (refer www.jesusdiet.com)

The Middle Ages: Bulimia or ox-hunger
Eat and purge through vomiting. Again, eating a lot is believed to have been a sign of wealth and status.

1800’s: Feverless consumption or hysteria
Victorian form of anorexia- Literally starving oneself to embody the Victorian fad of frailty, which was associated with spiritual purity and femininity. At that time, the aristocracy romanticised people who had tuberculosis.

1910’s: The Mega-Bite Diet
Book written by Horace Fletcher: Chewing each mouthful at least 32 times until it becomes a thin, liquid paste, and any food that can’t be broken down to a gruel consistency has to be spat out.

1920’s-2000s: The Hollywood, 18-day Diet or Grapefruit Diet
Consume only 800 calories a day through eating barrels of ‘fat-burning’ grapefruits so as to kick-start your metabolism. The BIG plus: you can have as much black coffee as you like.

1920s-2000: The Tapeworm Diet
A number of famous women, including supermodel Claudia Schiffer, are alleged to have tried this. Take a pill, get infected by tapeworm which will consume all your food. Ensures you remain thin, no matter how much you eat.

1980s – 2000s: The breatharian diet (also known as the air and sunlight diet)
The Hawa-Pani diet!

from http://www.ivillage.co.uk/dietandfitness/wtmngment/diets/articles/0,,235_176831-1,00.html

- posted by Rallix @ 5:44 AM
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