Horrible historic diets you're glad you never had to try
Diets to avoid at all costs!
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1558: the starvation diet
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1727: the 'move away from the swamp' diet
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1700s: hot sand to 'sweat out fat'
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Early 1800s: the Lord Byron vinegar diet
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1830s: the 'chastity' diet
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Mid 1800s: rubber underwear
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1800s: diet pills with arsenic
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1894: the corn flakes diet
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Early 1900s: the tapeworm diet
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1903: chewing and spitting
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1920s: smoke to 'reduce'
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1923: the milk diet
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1930s: the Inuit diet
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1940s: master cleanse diet
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1950s: the cabbage soup diet
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1962: the drinking man’s diet
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1960s: the sleeping beauty diet
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1960s: amphetamines
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Early 1970s: the grapefruit diet
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1974: the Hollywood cookie diet
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1981: Beverley Hills diet
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Early 1990s: the Hallelujah Diet
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2007: the Kimkins diet
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2010: the baby food diet
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2013: eating cotton wool balls
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2018: celery juice
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2019: the sirtfood diet
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Early 2020s: the carnivore diet
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2023: the lion diet
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