The people carrying extra pounds with them are ready to go to any extreme just to cut off at least a few pounds of their body. A thin waistline is what everyone is craving.
Eating tapeworms for weight loss? Does it sound crazy? Yeah with media inundating some unbelieving weight loss ideas to lure people it is possible for such things. Here you can see five risky diets you should stay away from. You can't just go on with a diet blindly without knowing the consequences.
This is one crazy diet that involves people swallowing the tapeworms to let them inside their digestive system. The tapeworms are segmented ribbon-like worms. They are parasites and takes the food from the digestive system of the creature they live in.
That's why people believe that the tapeworms will absorb the fat and nutrients from their body leading to weight loss. Even though they can reduce weight one must know the consequences. The tapeworms may lead to abdominal pain, nausea, headaches, confusion, seizures and in the worst case even death.
The Sleeping Beauty Diet
The sleeping beauty diet as the name says refers to the long time sleeping. It is believed to reduce the appetite thus ultimately reducing the weight by fewer intakes of calories. Sedatives are used by the people to sleep for a long time. But people neglect the risks involved in such methods while trying such dangerous ideas.
The Cotton Ball Diet
The cotton ball is soaked in orange juice or lemon juice and they are swallowed after soaking for considerable time. This reduces the urge to take food. This method emerged from the models in fashion world. But it is very dangerous to health as the cottons contain chemicals and are made of polyester materials.
The HCG Diet
The HCG injection is an unapproved drug for weight loss. But people take the injection everyday with intake of very less calories of around 500. In most cases there is a risk of fake injections in the market. The hormonal injections have risk of creating hormonal imbalance.
The Horace Fletcher Diet
This diet was made famous by Horace Fletcher an American of 1900s. He followed this diet to treat his obesity. It involves chewing your food 32 times and spitting it. His stand is that all your nutrients will be absorbed in the body by repeated chewing. Fewer intakes by spitting out will lead to weight loss. But still it's a crazy diet and has not proved to be effective.
So the next time you think of shedding off your weight go for something healthy and meaningful that will save your health.