Of course most of the time these diets resulted in death, so we were forced to find alternative methods of losing weight. There are way too many diets for me to list on my site but another one that I found intriguing is the tapeworm diet. Folks would swallow a "sanitized" tapeworm and then were told that they could eat as much as they wanted and to and the tapeworm would take care of their excess.
And now, us modern folks have such remedies as Phen Phen (remember that with all of the heart problems and such), and other fun diet pills, concoctions, and gimmicks. Just out in the Appalachian Medical Review, a new diet that could revolutionize fat America. A group of renowned Appalachian scientists have done studies on three groups of obese mountain folk. One group followed the diet plan, one group followed a placebo plan, and one group went on eating hog jowls and what ever the hell else mountain folk eat. The group following the diet plan set forth by the scientists lost an average of 5 lbs per week, while the placebo group lost an average of 1 lb per month and the last group gained 10 lbs per week. So the moment I know you have been anticipating; the diet plan set forth by the Appalachian scientists:
The scientists have been studying the effects of a complex combination of reduction of daily caloric intake with aerobic and anaerobic exercise. The group that lost 5 lbs per week ate a low fat, high protein breakfast, salad and grain for lunch, and lean roast poultry or fish with lots of vegetables for dinner. Each morning and evening the group would take a short 2 mile walk. Every week they would step up the pace and add a half mile. "This combination of diet and excercise seems to be the key to losing weight and keeping if off," says scientist Cleatus E. Stonewall.
Well I for one am amazed. Who would have thought that losing weight was so easy. Thank you to the many scientists and mountain folk that participated and worked so hard on this study.
