The Most Interesting Diets Ever

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    Kat Graham: The Lollipop Diet. Vampire Diaries star Kat Graham has sucked on Sukitz lollipops, a line of sugar-free candy that contains African mango extract to suppress hunger. Photo: Getty Images
    1/21 Kat Graham: The Lollipop Diet. Vampire Diaries star Kat Graham has sucked on Sukitz lollipops, a line of sugar-free candy that contains African mango extract to suppress hunger. Photo: Getty Images
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    Christina Aguilera: The Color Diet. She embarked on the 7-Day Color Diet. Each day allows the star to only eat foods from one color of the spectrum, starting with white and followed by red, green, orange, purple, and yellow. Photo: Getty Images
    2/21 Christina Aguilera: The Color Diet. She embarked on the 7-Day Color Diet. Each day allows the star to only eat foods from one color of the spectrum, starting with white and followed by red, green, orange, purple, and yellow. Photo: Getty Images
  • 3/21
    Heidi Klum and Megan Fox: The Vinegar Diet. Heidi Klum and Megan Fox have both touted the effects of vinegar, saying they take shots of the pungent liquid three times a day before meals. While Megan has said that vinegar "cleans out your system entirely"... Photo: Getty Images
    3/21 Heidi Klum and Megan Fox: The Vinegar Diet. Heidi Klum and Megan Fox have both touted the effects of vinegar, saying they take shots of the pungent liquid three times a day before meals. While Megan has said that vinegar "cleans out your system entirely"... Photo: Getty Images
  • 4/21
    Jennifer Hudson and Snooki: The Cookie Diet. These girls have downed cookies to lose weight! But before you get too excited and jump aboard the chocolate chip bandwagon, you should know these aren't your average baked goods. The Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet consists of one meal a day, plus six cookies that contain milk protein and beef. Photo: Getty Images
    4/21 Jennifer Hudson and Snooki: The Cookie Diet. These girls have downed cookies to lose weight! But before you get too excited and jump aboard the chocolate chip bandwagon, you should know these aren't your average baked goods. The Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet consists of one meal a day, plus six cookies that contain milk protein and beef. Photo: Getty Images
  • 5/21
    Nicole Kidman: The Hard-Boiled Egg Diet. While filming Cold Mountain back in 2003, Nicole Kidman lived on eggs and eggs alone. The Aussie actress ate a hard-boiled egg for both breakfast and lunch, followed by two eggs for dinner. If Nicole was extra hungry from a long day of work, she’d sometimes allow herself three. Photo: Getty Images
    5/21 Nicole Kidman: The Hard-Boiled Egg Diet. While filming Cold Mountain back in 2003, Nicole Kidman lived on eggs and eggs alone. The Aussie actress ate a hard-boiled egg for both breakfast and lunch, followed by two eggs for dinner. If Nicole was extra hungry from a long day of work, she’d sometimes allow herself three. Photo: Getty Images
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    Gwyneth Paltrow and Reese Witherspoon: The Baby Food Diet. The blonde beauties have been known to eat pots of pureed fruits and vegetables in order to ease digestion and detoxify the body. At under 800 calories a day, the Baby Food Diet is obviously unhealthy...! Photo: Getty Images
    6/21 Gwyneth Paltrow and Reese Witherspoon: The Baby Food Diet. The blonde beauties have been known to eat pots of pureed fruits and vegetables in order to ease digestion and detoxify the body. At under 800 calories a day, the Baby Food Diet is obviously unhealthy...! Photo: Getty Images
  • 7/21
    Anne Hathaway: The Les Miserables Diet. Anne Hathaway gave everything of herself to play the role of dying prostitute Fantine in the film adaptation of Les Miserables...including 25 pounds. Watched closely by doctors as she followed a near-starvation diet, Anne ate just two thin squares of dried oatmeal paste a day. Photo: Getty Images
    7/21 Anne Hathaway: The Les Miserables Diet. Anne Hathaway gave everything of herself to play the role of dying prostitute Fantine in the film adaptation of Les Miserables...including 25 pounds. Watched closely by doctors as she followed a near-starvation diet, Anne ate just two thin squares of dried oatmeal paste a day. Photo: Getty Images
  • 8/21
    January Jones: The Placenta Diet. According to January Jones, placenta contains high levels of a hormone which helps shrinks your uterus back to its regular size after giving birth. Once her son Xander was born in September 2011, the Mad Men star turned her own placenta into capsules which she swallowed every day... :S Photo: Getty Images
    8/21 January Jones: The Placenta Diet. According to January Jones, placenta contains high levels of a hormone which helps shrinks your uterus back to its regular size after giving birth. Once her son Xander was born in September 2011, the Mad Men star turned her own placenta into capsules which she swallowed every day... :S Photo: Getty Images
  • 9/21
    Laura Prepon: The hCG Diet. Much like January Jones, former That ‘70s Show star Laura Prepon has turned pregnancy hormones into a weight loss plan. “I did the hCG Diet,” she told Health Magazine. “[You’re injected with] a hormone that's extracted from the urine of pregnant women!" According to promoters of the plan, followers can burn excess fat without exercise, as long as they consume only 500 calories a day. Pee!? Photo: Getty Images
    9/21 Laura Prepon: The hCG Diet. Much like January Jones, former That ‘70s Show star Laura Prepon has turned pregnancy hormones into a weight loss plan. “I did the hCG Diet,” she told Health Magazine. “[You’re injected with] a hormone that's extracted from the urine of pregnant women!" According to promoters of the plan, followers can burn excess fat without exercise, as long as they consume only 500 calories a day. Pee!? Photo: Getty Images
  • 10/21
    The Blood-Type Diet. Developed by Peter J. D’Adamo, ND, Eat Right 4 Your Type (a classic, first published in 1997) is based on the premise that each blood type requires a specialized diet to aid weight loss and improve conditions such as asthma, heartburn, and headaches. Photo: Getty Images
    10/21 The Blood-Type Diet. Developed by Peter J. D’Adamo, ND, Eat Right 4 Your Type (a classic, first published in 1997) is based on the premise that each blood type requires a specialized diet to aid weight loss and improve conditions such as asthma, heartburn, and headaches. Photo: Getty Images
  • 11/21
    The Clean Program. Introduced in 2009 by cardiologist Alejandro Junger, MD, the Clean Program’s 21-day detox excludes common allergens and inflammatory foods. Its dining plan of two liquid meals a day (DIY fruit-and-almond-milk smoothies are fine, though Junger sells a $425 bundle of vitamin supplements and protein powders on his site) and one solid lunch has found favor with svelte foodies such as Gwyneth Paltrow. Photo: Getty Images
    11/21 The Clean Program. Introduced in 2009 by cardiologist Alejandro Junger, MD, the Clean Program’s 21-day detox excludes common allergens and inflammatory foods. Its dining plan of two liquid meals a day (DIY fruit-and-almond-milk smoothies are fine, though Junger sells a $425 bundle of vitamin supplements and protein powders on his site) and one solid lunch has found favor with svelte foodies such as Gwyneth Paltrow. Photo: Getty Images
  • 12/21
    The French Woman Diet. Pin-thin fashion maven Carine Roitfeld has declared she follows the “French woman diet,” which consists of small portions of rich foods (think steak, cheese, and tuna tartare). This requires sit-down meals—no mindless chowing while House of Cards unspools in the background—and prohibits packaged food and (I’m grateful to say) exercise. Photo: Getty Images
    12/21 The French Woman Diet. Pin-thin fashion maven Carine Roitfeld has declared she follows the “French woman diet,” which consists of small portions of rich foods (think steak, cheese, and tuna tartare). This requires sit-down meals—no mindless chowing while House of Cards unspools in the background—and prohibits packaged food and (I’m grateful to say) exercise. Photo: Getty Images
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    The Pil-Sook Diet. A fad in South Korea, the Pil-sook Plan comes from hit K-drama Dream High. When pop-star wannabe Pil-sook wants to drop 65 pounds in 200 days, her teacher paraphrases twentieth-century nutritionist Adelle Davis’ famous rule: “Eat breakfast like a queen, lunch like a commoner, dinner like a pauper.” The catch: No liquids after 7 p.m. and mandatory daily 30-minute jump-roping sessions. Photo: Getty Images
    13/21 The Pil-Sook Diet. A fad in South Korea, the Pil-sook Plan comes from hit K-drama Dream High. When pop-star wannabe Pil-sook wants to drop 65 pounds in 200 days, her teacher paraphrases twentieth-century nutritionist Adelle Davis’ famous rule: “Eat breakfast like a queen, lunch like a commoner, dinner like a pauper.” The catch: No liquids after 7 p.m. and mandatory daily 30-minute jump-roping sessions. Photo: Getty Images
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    The Cabbage Soup Diet. In Roald Dahl's classic book Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the impoverished Bucket family mainly live off cabbage soup. But from the 1950s onwards, dieters actually embraced this unappetising dish in their attempts to lose weight. Photo: Getty Images
    14/21 The Cabbage Soup Diet. In Roald Dahl's classic book Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the impoverished Bucket family mainly live off cabbage soup. But from the 1950s onwards, dieters actually embraced this unappetising dish in their attempts to lose weight. Photo: Getty Images
  • 15/21
    The Master Cleanse Diet. Beyoncé used this to lose weight for her role in Dreamgirls. This detox regime involves avoiding food for short periods and instead drinking a lemon and water mixture flavoured with maple syrup and cayenne pepper. The only break you'll get from this monotony is a delicious laxative before bed. Photo: Getty Images
    15/21 The Master Cleanse Diet. Beyoncé used this to lose weight for her role in Dreamgirls. This detox regime involves avoiding food for short periods and instead drinking a lemon and water mixture flavoured with maple syrup and cayenne pepper. The only break you'll get from this monotony is a delicious laxative before bed. Photo: Getty Images
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    The Cigarette Diet. Today, we all have it drummed into our heads that cigarettes = bad, but in the first half of the 20th century, it wasn't uncommon for cigarette makers to advertise their wares as beneficial to your health. Several companies claimed that their cigarettes could help you lose weight: "Light a Lucky and you’ll never miss sweets that make you fat," proclaimed one advert in 1929. Photo: Getty Images
    16/21 The Cigarette Diet. Today, we all have it drummed into our heads that cigarettes = bad, but in the first half of the 20th century, it wasn't uncommon for cigarette makers to advertise their wares as beneficial to your health. Several companies claimed that their cigarettes could help you lose weight: "Light a Lucky and you’ll never miss sweets that make you fat," proclaimed one advert in 1929. Photo: Getty Images
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    The Grapefruit Diet. Popular from the 1930s onwards, the grapefruit diet advocated eating foods rich in fat and protein (aka, meat rather than carbs) alongside - you've guessed it - a grapefruit. The idea was that grapefruits have a miraculous ability to burn fat, so eating the two together would result in the bikini body you always dreamed of. Photo: Getty Images
    17/21 The Grapefruit Diet. Popular from the 1930s onwards, the grapefruit diet advocated eating foods rich in fat and protein (aka, meat rather than carbs) alongside - you've guessed it - a grapefruit. The idea was that grapefruits have a miraculous ability to burn fat, so eating the two together would result in the bikini body you always dreamed of. Photo: Getty Images
  • 18/21
    The Hallelujah Diet. Like Jesus? Want to lose weight? Than the Hallelujah diet could be for you. The regime, formulated by US reverend George Malkmus in the 1990s, is based on eating only what Adam and Eve consumed in the garden of Eden - largely fruit and vegetables and wholegrains. We're not sure of the view on apples. Photo: Getty Images
    18/21 The Hallelujah Diet. Like Jesus? Want to lose weight? Than the Hallelujah diet could be for you. The regime, formulated by US reverend George Malkmus in the 1990s, is based on eating only what Adam and Eve consumed in the garden of Eden - largely fruit and vegetables and wholegrains. We're not sure of the view on apples. Photo: Getty Images
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    The Tapeworm Diet. Many people go to extraordinary lengths to slim down, but introducing a tapeworm to your body takes some dedication. The theory is that if the parasite's eating the food you consume, you won't gain weight. Urban legend has it that opera singer Maria Callas (pictured) achieved her impressive weight loss in the 1950s by swallowing a tapeworm. Photo: Getty Images
    19/21 The Tapeworm Diet. Many people go to extraordinary lengths to slim down, but introducing a tapeworm to your body takes some dedication. The theory is that if the parasite's eating the food you consume, you won't gain weight. Urban legend has it that opera singer Maria Callas (pictured) achieved her impressive weight loss in the 1950s by swallowing a tapeworm. Photo: Getty Images
  • 20/21
    Ashton Kutcher: Fruit Diet. Ashton Kutcher's extreme diet landed him in the hospital after he only ate fruit in order to emulate Steve Jobs' frutarian lifestyle for his role as Jobs in the movie "iJobs." The regime caused pancreas problems for the star. Photo: Getty Images
    20/21 Ashton Kutcher: Fruit Diet. Ashton Kutcher's extreme diet landed him in the hospital after he only ate fruit in order to emulate Steve Jobs' frutarian lifestyle for his role as Jobs in the movie "iJobs." The regime caused pancreas problems for the star. Photo: Getty Images
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    The Air Diet. Many have tried it around the world...surviving only on air, light and water. Navenna Shine - a Seattle resident - believed it was a mind over matter thing and the fact no one had done this and survived was simply because they didn't believe they could. Long story short, she went for 47 days, lost weight, experienced nausea and exhaustion and ended up stopping the experiment due to financial reasons... Photo: Getty Images
    21/21 The Air Diet. Many have tried it around the world...surviving only on air, light and water. Navenna Shine - a Seattle resident - believed it was a mind over matter thing and the fact no one had done this and survived was simply because they didn't believe they could. Long story short, she went for 47 days, lost weight, experienced nausea and exhaustion and ended up stopping the experiment due to financial reasons... Photo: Getty Images

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The world is consistently obsessed with food and there are always different fad diets going around. We've gathered some of our favourite ones we've heard of (no, we wouldn't recommend them! We just can't believe people have done them!). Celebs are into some crazy eating habits!

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