Thread: Potentially Dangerous Diets

I was looking diet options online and found these two potentially dangerous diets so I thought I'd share them:

Breatharian Diet

This diet promotes living on air alone, no food or water. Breatharianism claim that food and water are not necessary, and humans can be sustained by prana (the vital life force in Hinduism), or by the energy in sunlight.

There are documented cases that individuals who attempted this diet have died.

Tapeworm Diet

On this diet, dieters ingest tapeworms from beef carcass and allow them to live for about 10 weeks, and then they will take prescribed medication to kill them. Since almost all the food dieters eat goes to the tapeworms, they can eat whatever you want and still lose weight. It is believed that a person infected with tapeworms can lose weight of up 1-2 pounds a week.

This diet is considered dangerous and deadly. Some also created tapeworm diet pills but FDA banned them.

Thanks for sharing this kathy. I believe everyone should be warned of this diets. What is the point of dieting if it will cause you your life right?

Tapeworms? I wouldn't even dream of using that for weight loss. Although I did see it on TV once. The girl took some pill and she was hospitalized. When she was x-rayed, it shows tapeworms in her intestine. She didn't purposes take tapeworm pill though. I think she was tricked or something. The tapeworms were removed and months after she got out of the hospital, she gained her weight back.

I can understand the idea of Breatharian Diet. Some religions practice fasting for long period of time too but I think no one should try this. Living on air alone? I won't last 3 days.

Actually, once you enter Breatharian Diet, they will teach you how to live on air alone but for someone who has been eating food all his/her life, starting to live on air is almost impossible to do.

That true. I can probably live on water for 3 days but this diet even excludes water? You mean you can excrete any waste while you're on this diet? That doesn't sound good at all.

I read that some who tried this diet drank a little water. But only a little. It's not suprising dehydration is one of the side effects of this diet.

Dehydration is probably the least they have to worry about if they try this diet. There are reported cases that people died while attempting this diet. I'm not surprised that it's considered dangerous.