Clay Diet

 Various methods, main staple is eating bentonite clay

Made from ash, used for many healthy purposes- skin for example

Weight loss Concept

It swell in stomach to 2x the size to fill you up

Attaches to heavy metals and “toxins”

Star Power - Zoe Kravits was recommended Clay Diet to lose 20ls for “The Road Within”

It worked, but she said it 

“Felt awful” “I was a space cadet and sick” “ I don't recommend this to anybody

“Ate a mason jar of clay and purred vegetables and ran a lot”

Complications

Studies do show it causes abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea and constipation.

Can perforate bowels and cause acute kidney damage

Binds to everything good and bad

Slows calcium and iron absorption

Can slow down medications

Supports Often Say

“Proven” to attach to fat, in rat models. But what’s wrong with fat? And I’m not a mouse

Aboriginals do it!

Australian Aboriginals do it for weight loss where most do it to combat hunger

Australian aboriginals have some of the highest Diabetes and heart disease in the world for tribesmen

Comparing a healthy habit to one of the least healthy of their kind?

The Fletcherizing Diet

One of the Original Fad Diets

Medical Definition of fletcherize

to reduce (food) to tiny particles especially by prolonged chewing

Origins of the chew for 32x model

“Nature will castigate those who don’t masticate,” claimed Dr. Horace Fletcher, 

Concept

Chew all food 100x, even liquids so they can “properly mix with saliva for digestion”

People lost weight

Very slow eating period

Got full with eating less

Got tired of chewing for so long and would eat less

Also original who touted to know what it is that you are eating

He heavily claimed and announced that this diet can make your feces smell better. 

For everybody who cares about that…

Famous Fletcherizers-

Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, and John D. Rockefeller 

There are known benefits to chewing more

Slows us down so we eat less

Allows us to enjoy our food instead of inhale and vanish

We absorb more nutrients

Whole corn or spinach in your stool? Didn’t absorb it,  you eat to quickly

Chew everything 32 times compared to 10 and…

Took almost twice as long to eat

Ate 12% less

240kcal on a 2000kcal diet

Significant enough to lose weight

Fletcher made millions and then a new dietary theory came out called “Calorie Counting”

 

The Master Cleanse, AKA The Lemonade Diet AKA The Diuretic diet

There are a ton of variations

All basically come down to 5 to 10 days of lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper into water

approximately 600kcal

Essentially just ingesting diuretics

Does it work?

Can lose 10 to 20 pounds of WATER weight relatively quickly

An original bonus was cited as you“Don’t need teeth”

Should I do it

Will gain the weight right back once they eat food and water again

Can rapidly lose muscle when in extreme caloric deficit 

Common side effects of fatigue, nausea, dizziness, dehydration, stomach pains

Sounds like montezuma's revenge from school to me (Vitamin C and Magnesium)

 

The Five Bite Diet

Eat whatever you want -- but only five bites of it.

No breakfast except black coffee

Eat anything you desire for lunch and dinner, but only 5 bites of each

Drink as much 0 Calorie fluids as youd like

The concept is smaller portions to an extreme

Very difficult to get even 1000kcal in if you try

Doesn't matter what you eat, just how much

Standard day is

Breakfast- Black coffee and a multivitamin

Lunch- 3 bites of a burger and 2 of a salad

Dinner- 3 bites of macaroni and cheese and 2 of apple pie

Sounds like justified anorexia

Better off not eating (metabolically speaking) then eating so little and being malnourished and rapidly decrease your metabolism

 

Cigarettes For Weight Loss

Smoking kills 1 in 5 people

Has been known for decades it is an appetite suppressant

Nicotine specifically 

Is a common reason for teenagers, mostly female, to s