There are as many crazy diets out there and there are crazy dieters. It seems people will do just anything to lose weight. The newer and crazier the diet the more popularity or notoriety it receives. Everyone wants to lose weight easy and fast and some are willing to risk their health and well being to do it even if it means being thin for your casket attire. Some times are not so much harmful as crazy and ineffective. Since diet season is here we will celebrate by featuring some of the craziest diets invented. Keep in mind that I do not recommend any diet which risks your health or has you implement activities or ideas which are contrary to a healthy life. If you lose weight by eating only hot dogs for six months you can guarantee that after those six months you will pack on the pounds as you indulge in food again. The best diets are not diets at all but lifestyle changes. Now this brings us to our first crazy diet posts: The Chewing Diet.
The Chewing Diet
The Chewing Diet was invented by Horace Fletcher. Fletcher was an art dealer in 1903 who lost 40 pounds through his method of chewing. Thus the Chewing Diet was born! Basically you are supposed to chew your food 30-80 times to liquefy it. Whatever is not liquefied is to be spit out. The logic is that you can enjoy the taste of your food yet absorb fewer calories due to spitting some of it out. I suppose this could be considered the first liquid diet. I think it obvious that this diet will leave you with a sore jaw and a true dislike for eating. This is nothing more than a fad diet that has no business being presented as a real means for losing weight.