9: Special K Diet, 2010s

The Special K diet is a 14-day diet program.You replace two meals a day with a bowl of Special K cereal and skim milk. This diet is very simple, and does show results. However, this is not because you are eating a hyper-processed cereal twice a day, but because you are eating that instead of something else. You can do the same with anything else, as long as it’s lower calorie than the thing you were eating before. It also doesn’t improve health much, being that a lot of what is necessary for a healthy diet is a variety of nutrients, which this eliminates. As a whole, the thing is just a marketing ploy to get people to eat more Special K. Might as well be eating hardtack for every meal.