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Who Knew?History's craziest diets
The most mind-bending diets that the human race has subject themselves to over the course of a century.
Did you think the Cottonball diet was nuts? Wait till you find out about the tapeworm diet - yes, people would eat tapeworms so that the parasite in their stomachs would prevent them from gaining weight!
And let's not forget the cigarette diet, where it was actually recommended to light up whenever you were struck by the urge to eat. Fact is truly stranger than fiction.
