Currently developing various types of diets, ranging from high-protein diets, baby food diet, carbohydrate diet, to diet blood type. Actually, the diet has been around since the 1700s. Performed a variety of ways to get the ideal body weight, including extreme ways.The following fifteen types of diets throughout history, as quoted from Womans Day:
1. 1727: Avoiding live around the swamp
In 1727, Thomas Short wrote a treatise entitled 'The Causes and Effects of Corpulence'. To make a short post of observation and conclusion, people who live around the swamp, tend to overweight. He recommends people have to choose and move to a dry place to avoid the side effects of the swamp.
2. In the 1800s: Hysteria hunger
During the second half of the 19th century, a kind of "Anorexia Victoria" is done in the middle class and aristocracy in Western Europe. People are hungry himself intentionally made to live in accordance with the Victorian idea, which is associated with spiritual purity and femininity.
3. In 1820: Diet vinegar
A poet Bulimia and anokreksia , Lord Byron vinegar diet popularized in the 1820s. The intention was to clean the toxins in your body by drinking vinegar and water every day. But, what happens is he vomiting and diarrhea, and no wonder if the weight decreases.
4. In 1903: Chewing without swallowing
An art curator of the origin of San Francisco, Horace Fletcher known as 'The Great Masticator', after he lost 40 pounds of weight. That's because he does not chew and swallow food. Fletcher diet, he chewed the food as much as 32 times each (one for each tooth), then spat it out. He did it with logic, the body would absorb the nutrients needed without increasing weight weight.
5. In 1925: Cigarette Diet
It is difficult indeed to imagine cigarette advertisements promoting healthy life. However, in 1920s, several tobacco companies in the United States, to promote tobacco products by emphasizing the advantages 'can eliminate your appetite'.
6. In 1928: A diet of raw meat
An Arctic continental wanderers, Vilhjalmur Stefánsson, promoting that diet extreme version performed quite effectively Atkin tribe. After living in the northern tundra, Stefánsson amazed at how healthy the Inuit, who live in the Arctic, although eating raw fish and whale blubber, without eating fruit or vegetables.
Stefánsson so interested in the diet and claimed she had to do it yourself and prove its effectiveness. He then went to New York's Bellevue Hospital, where doctors monitored his health for several months. After observation, he was declared healthy.
7. Early 1930s: slimming soap
Wash and remove fat in the bathroom? Although it sounds impossible, slimming soap is quite popular in the 1930s, in the United States. Soap products labeled 'Fatoff', 'Fat-O-NO' and 'La-Mar Reducing Shop', managed to fool the ladies to buy. Although the soap company claims can reduce fat, but the products were actually like regular soap.
8. In 1954: Diet of worms
When people know that parasitic worms that live in the intestines, sucking nutrients and causing weight loss, there are some people who actually use them. Some people began to swallow the tapeworm cysts (baby tapeworm) to be able to eat much without having a headache thinking about weight loss. However, this diet could reap the controversy, because there are creepy facts about these worms. Worms that can grow up to 25 feet, so that it can cause seizures, meningitis or dementia.
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