Currently developing various types of diets, ranging from a high protein diet, baby food diet, carbohydrate diet, until the blood type diet. Actually, the diet has been around since the era of the 1700s. Various methods are used to obtain the ideal body weight, including extreme ways.
Here are seven types of diets throughout history, as quoted from Womans Day.
1. 1727: Avoid living near the swamp
In 1727, Thomas Short wrote a treatise entitled 'The Causes and Effects of Corpulence'. To create a text short observation and conclusion, people who live around the swamp, tend to overweight. He recommends that people should vote and move to a dry place to avoid the side effects of the swamp.
2. 1800s: Hysteria hunger
During the second half of the 19th century, a form of "Anorexia Victoria" is done in the middle class and aristocracy in Western Europe. The people intentionally starve themselves to live in accordance with the Victorian idea, which is associated with spiritual purity and femininity.
3. 1820: Diet vinegar
Bulimia and anokreksia a poet, Lord Byron vinegar diet popularized in the 1820s. Rancun intention was to clean the body by drinking vinegar and water every day. But, what happens is he vomiting and diarrhea, and no wonder if his weight decreased.
4. 1903: Chewing without swallowing
An art curator from San Francisco, Horace Fletcher was known as 'The Great Masticator', after he lost 40 pounds of weight. That's because he does not chew and swallow food. Fletcher's diet, he chewed every food 32 times (one for each tooth), then spat it out. It does so by logic, the body will absorb the nutrients it needs without having to increase the weight of body weight.
5. 1925: Cigarette Diet
It is hard to imagine cigarette ads promote a healthy life. However, in 1920, several tobacco companies in the United States, to promote tobacco products by highlighting the advantages 'can eliminate your appetite'.
6. 1928: Raw Meat Diet
An Arctic continental wanderers, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the diet promotes extreme version performed quite effective interest Atkin. After living in the northern tundra, Stefansson was amazed at how healthy the Inuit, who live in the Arctic, despite eating raw fish and whale blubber, without eating fruits or vegetables.
Stefansson was so interested in diet and claimed he had to do it yourself and prove its effectiveness. He then went to New York's Bellevue Hospital, where doctors monitored his health for several months. After observation, he was declared healthy.
7. Early 1930s: Slimming Soap
Wash and remove fat in the bathroom? Although it sounds impossible, slimming soap is quite popular in the 1930s, in the United States. Soap products labeled 'Fatoff', 'Fat-O-NO' and 'La-Mar Reducing Shop', managed to induce women to buy. Although the soap company claims can reduce fat, but the products are actually like regular soap.
Here are seven types of diets throughout history, as quoted from Womans Day.
1. 1727: Avoid living near the swamp
In 1727, Thomas Short wrote a treatise entitled 'The Causes and Effects of Corpulence'. To create a text short observation and conclusion, people who live around the swamp, tend to overweight. He recommends that people should vote and move to a dry place to avoid the side effects of the swamp.
2. 1800s: Hysteria hunger
During the second half of the 19th century, a form of "Anorexia Victoria" is done in the middle class and aristocracy in Western Europe. The people intentionally starve themselves to live in accordance with the Victorian idea, which is associated with spiritual purity and femininity.
3. 1820: Diet vinegar
Bulimia and anokreksia a poet, Lord Byron vinegar diet popularized in the 1820s. Rancun intention was to clean the body by drinking vinegar and water every day. But, what happens is he vomiting and diarrhea, and no wonder if his weight decreased.
4. 1903: Chewing without swallowing
An art curator from San Francisco, Horace Fletcher was known as 'The Great Masticator', after he lost 40 pounds of weight. That's because he does not chew and swallow food. Fletcher's diet, he chewed every food 32 times (one for each tooth), then spat it out. It does so by logic, the body will absorb the nutrients it needs without having to increase the weight of body weight.
5. 1925: Cigarette Diet
It is hard to imagine cigarette ads promote a healthy life. However, in 1920, several tobacco companies in the United States, to promote tobacco products by highlighting the advantages 'can eliminate your appetite'.
6. 1928: Raw Meat Diet
An Arctic continental wanderers, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the diet promotes extreme version performed quite effective interest Atkin. After living in the northern tundra, Stefansson was amazed at how healthy the Inuit, who live in the Arctic, despite eating raw fish and whale blubber, without eating fruits or vegetables.
Stefansson was so interested in diet and claimed he had to do it yourself and prove its effectiveness. He then went to New York's Bellevue Hospital, where doctors monitored his health for several months. After observation, he was declared healthy.
7. Early 1930s: Slimming Soap
Wash and remove fat in the bathroom? Although it sounds impossible, slimming soap is quite popular in the 1930s, in the United States. Soap products labeled 'Fatoff', 'Fat-O-NO' and 'La-Mar Reducing Shop', managed to induce women to buy. Although the soap company claims can reduce fat, but the products are actually like regular soap.
