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What's the craziest dietary claim you've heard?

mmmpork
mmmpork Posts: 133 Member
edited November 2024 in Chit-Chat
What's the craziest diet or other food related claim you've come across? Thought we might all enjoy getting a good laugh from some of the nonsense out there.

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  • ew_david
    ew_david Posts: 3,473 Member
    Bulletproof coffee
    Raspberry ketones
  • mmmpork
    mmmpork Posts: 133 Member
    Microwaving your food will kill you!! It changes the molecular structure of your food! It uses radiation!! (I thought cooking did that anyways??)

    aaimedicine.com/jaaim/apr06/hazards.php

    To be fair, 100% of people who microwave their food do eventually die...

  • jbuzzed
    jbuzzed Posts: 10,172 Member
    Waist trainers.
  • Just_J_Now
    Just_J_Now Posts: 9,551 Member
    Starvation mode
  • _SpookyKitten
    _SpookyKitten Posts: 35 Member
    J_Surita3 wrote: »
    Starvation mode

    Amen!

    Also the diet where you eat one day and dont eat the next
  • Iggy585
    Iggy585 Posts: 104 Member
    Gluten Free diets(unless you have gluten allergy)
    Crazy Detox diets(only drink juice for 3 days to clean your body of evil toxins or something)
  • zcb94
    zcb94 Posts: 3,678 Member
    _SpookyKitten wrote: »
    J_Surita3 wrote: »
    Starvation mode

    Amen!

    Also the diet where you eat one day and dont eat the next
    Intermittent Fasting? I think I agree.
  • Chieflrg
    Chieflrg Posts: 9,097 Member
    You have to eat clean to lose weight...lol
  • RedLipsRedDress
    RedLipsRedDress Posts: 125 Member
    The most fashionable diet that everyone in my country is: two days you eat 6 boiled potatoes a day. Next two days veggies like tomatoes and last two days it's one boiled chicken a day. The seventh day only water. Then you repeat until you're happy with your loss. This diet was made popular by a famous woman who lost quite a lot of weight but actually she goes to the gym every day and undergoes procedures like vacuum cavitation, hot massages, all kinds of anticellulite therapy, etc. So it's not a magic diet but everyone is crazy about it.
    I think it's crazy to eat only high fat -low carb.
    My mom thinks you will get fat if you put a pinch of paprika in your food.
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