Wednesday, July 21, 2010 #

The World's Weirdest Diets

I never quite understand how Anthony Bourdain or Andrew Zimmerman can eat half of the strange and exotic foods they eat on their shows. Half the stuff they put in their mouths looks as though they picked it up off the ground after it had been stepped on and rolled in dirt for 50 years.

They do not claim to enjoy what they are eating 100 percent of the time, but more often than not they slap on a smile and blurt out a nearly-convincing, "Mmmmmmmm."

Those two certainly maintain what I would call a "weird diet," although they are eating foods and following diets of people in other cultures all around the world. Us Americans have our fair share of strange diets too, though.

According to this Forbes article hosted on MSN.com, American celebrities have turned to a Baby Food Diet recently, where they eat only several servings of pureed green vegetables every day. While this diet hasn't been promoted through advertisements or in the news much, other diets, like the Taco Bell diet, where a woman claimed to have lost nearly 55 lbs. by only eating Taco Bell, or the Cookie diet, where you eat pre-packaged nutritious cookies, have been in the spotlight for several months now.

Of course the Cookie Diet creator doesn't think his diet is all that weird-in the article, he points to other strange diets in history, which include one diet where a person would consume a tapeworm, which was expected to attack a person's stomach lining, causing them to have consumed fewer calories.

Or how about the Last Chance Diet, where people would drink a concoction made from a blend of juiced animal hides (yuck!)

Oh yea, we've seen some pretty weird diets throughout time. What's the weirdest diet you've ever heard of?
posted @ Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:12 PM | Feedback (0)