It is well known that the best way to lose weight is special diets combined with exercise. But to understand this simple principle people could not at once, and to lose weight, sometimes invented quite specific, or even crazy ways.
For example, before there was a diet in which a person had to eat only cabbage soup or a huge number of cigarettes smoked daily.
We offer you a selection of several similar ways to lose weight. But please, in any case, do not take them as a guide to action - the result you may achieve, but health can cause irreparable harm.
1. Fluid diet
The invention of this diet historians credited with William the Conqueror. Legend has it that the King of England was too heavy to ride a horse, so he had to resort to a liquid diet: as the basis for the diet he chose liquor. Not only is this diet just would not bring desired results, the king also died in the same year, falling from a horse in a state of severe intoxication.
2. Vinegar Diet
This diet is adhered to the English poet Lord Byron. He is a regular "clean" your body by drinking plenty of water to dilute the vinegar. No wonder that after such a practice he felt "lighter": side effects of this diet include vomiting and diarrhea.
Oddly enough, some people follow the diet and acetic today. It is believed that you will lose weight if every day will start to drink a couple of tablespoons of vinegar for 30 minutes before eating: diet adherents believe that so you will feel full and eat less food. The fact that vinegar harm the stomach, for some reason not considered.
3. Diet Bunting
The inventor of a low-carb diet is Dr. Atkins, but in fact the author of the technique is the Englishman William Banting. He lost 22 kg, reducing the amount of bread, butter, milk and potatoes and increasing the amount of meat in their diets. He wrote this book entitled "Letter of obesity, addressed to the public." It became so popular that in Dietetics even coined the term "diet by Bunting."
4. Cigarette Diet
Smoking - is undoubtedly harmful to the health of habit, but in 1920 this was not yet known. Most people smoke regularly, unaware of the dangers - including, and that smoking increases the risk of heart disease and lung cancer. Cigarette manufacturers even advertise their products, saying that smoking contributes to weight loss. Add to that a bottle of champagne in the day, we get the diet of many supermodels of the 1970s.
5. Bedroom diet
People can not eat, when they sleep, so sleeping followers of the diet before dinner took sleeping pills or provoked fainting. It is believed that this diet has been a fan of Elvis Presley. As we all know, he ended his life is not the best way.
6. Diet without counting calories
If you stick to this diet, you count calories you do not need. In 1961, a doctor from Brooklyn Herman Taller invented the diet, following which the person could lose about 30 pounds in eight months. The theory was that if you avoid eating sugars and carbohydrates, counting calories then there would be no need. The doctor advised three times a day to eat junk food, such as meat, together with the capsule of safflower oil. Ultimately, the Office of the Food and Drug Administration has recognized the diet unsafe for health. In our time, such as low-carbohydrate diets are very popular, but we know that carbohydrates are completely excluded from the diet is impossible.
7. Diet based on cookies
Sanford Siegal, the doctor from south Florida, has created a cookie from a mixture of amino acids. His patients ate the cookies to six times a day, and then drank 300 calories for dinner. The diet was a success and provoked the emergence of a number of clinics practicing this method throughout the United States.
8. Cabbage Soup Diet
Proponents of this diet could eat as many times a day as they want, but eat at the same time had only cabbage soup and a few other products on certain days of the week. So, on the first day, in addition to the cabbage soup you can eat fruit, and the second - raw vegetables. Cabbage contains very few calories, and people by the end of the first week can lose up to 7 kg. Fun fact: this diet is also called the "Dolly Parton diet" - the singer in the style of the country, including the famous and because of its wasp waist.
9. Cotton diet
No one has ever wanted to eat cotton balls. However, some people have decided that the power of cotton - the best way to lose weight. In gaudy natural cotton balls are low in calories is high in fiber, so they take up space in the stomach. But the cellulose contained in the natural cotton - not healthy, as does not contain the body needs vitamins and minerals.
10. Juice Diet
People who are fond of cleaning the body as a diet, in fact, is not so wrong. In particular, it is possible to "clean up" the body with juice: the process takes from three to seven days. Juice helps the body get rid of toxins, and at the same time you lose weight, which is based on the water in your body. But again, when you start to eat solid food, you run the risk of gaining weight again.
Instead of drinking the juice as a panacea for weight loss, better to just make it part of your daily diet. Drinking only juice for a few days can unwholesome effect on general health. It is much better to eat healthy food - particularly greens.