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How far would you go to be thin Dive into the darkest corners of diet history with the tapeworm diet a terrifying trend with ...

Today, weight loss advice often revolves around calorie counting, exercise, medicines, and balanced diets. But the desire to lose weight is far from new. For centuries, people have tried extreme and ...

Popularized by a man named Horace Fletcher, the Chewing Diet theorized that all of the important nutrients in food could be absorbed in liquid form. For each mouthful you took, you were supposed to ...

Laura Hillenbrand states that in the 1930s racehorse jockeys trying to lose weight would swallow a capsule containing a tapeworm egg. The worms would then mature in the jockeys’ stomachs and eat ...