Author Archives: Angelo Alvord

Created by a person I will not name, the Subway diet consists two low-fat sandwiches from the popular sandwich chain, Subway. The diet became part of a marketing ploy by Subway to claim that their chain was a healthy and cheap place to eat. The diet works as a way to quickly cut weight, whichContinue reading “10: Subway Diet, 1998”

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 ofContinue reading “9: Special K Diet, 2010s”

Another really simple one. Step one: make a nice hot meal. Step two: Take in the smell. Step three: Eat the air and steam rising from it. That’s it. This is a horrible. This is blatant disordered eating. Do not do this diet. It is just starving yourself. There is no research or ways toContinue reading “8: Air Diet, 2018”

The clay diet is a new diet, with origins in ancient history, where villagers used to eat clay as a detoxification process. That’s right, they eat clay. Clay doesn’t detoxify the body, and this is not necessary. Detoxification is done by our kidneys. Clay has calcium and iron, and has been used in the pastContinue reading “7: Clay Diet, 2010s”

This was originally marketed as a “TRICK TO LOSE WEIGHT FAST.” The trick is to only eat cabbage soup. Since a cup of cabbage only has 22 calories and no fat, it results in fast weight loss. You know, just like not eating would. It is essentially like chewing ice to stave off hunger. YouContinue reading “6: Cabbage Soup Diet, 1950”

I’m sure many people have already heard of this one. The Tapeworm diet entails swallowing a tapeworm egg, waiting for it to mature, and then eat food regularly. The tapeworm will take all of the “extra” calories while you eat happily. Do I really need to explain what is wrong with this diet? Tapeworms areContinue reading “5: Tapeworm Diet, early 1900s”

Created by Horace Fletcher, this diet had no change in what you eat, but how you eat. In a effort to eat only when hungry, the dieter would chew their food 32 times before swallowing. This would, supposedly, cause the dieter to reduce food intake. This is a dangerous effort, seeing as how it couldContinue reading “4: “FLETCHERIZING,” 1903″

Popularized by Lulu Peters in her book Diet and Health, With Key to the Calories, Calorie counting is restricting the amount of calories that you consume through food, and has been a staple of dieting for years. However, studies have shown that calorie counting on it’s own can be harmful. By cutting out calories, we are often restricting ourselves to unhealthierContinue reading “3: Calorie Counting, 1917”

Popularized in the 1920s, cigarette companies advertised their product as a substitute for when people begin to crave sweets. It is blatantly obvious that this is nowhere near healthy due to the obvious, cigarettes are bad for you. They can cause chest pain and shortness of breath on the light end, and up to lungContinue reading “2: Cigarette Diet, Late 1920s”

Popularized by George Gordon Byron, the diet consisted of starches. These came in the form of a slice of bread, a biscuit, or a potato doused in vinegar as your main courses, with carbonated water or plain tea to wash it down. While many of potatoes and vinegar contain many amino acids, which are essentialContinue reading “1: Vinegar and Water Diet, Year 1820”