The Cabbage Soup Diet: This diet involves eating almost exclusively homemade cabbage soup for a week. It's extremely low in calories and lacks protein, fats, and many essential nutrients.
The Grapefruit Diet: This plan promotes eating a grapefruit with every meal. The diet is very low-calorie and does not provide a balanced intake of nutrients.
The HCG Diet: This controversial diet involves taking hCG hormones and consuming only 500 calories a day. It is not only unsustainable but potentially dangerous without medical supervision.
The Master Cleanse (Lemonade Diet): This detox diet involves consuming only a mixture of lemon juice, water, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper. It lacks solid food and significant nutrients.
The Cookie Diet: Followers eat special cookies designed to suppress appetite along with a very low-calorie dinner. It's not only monotonous but also nutritionally inadequate.
The Blood Type Diet: This diet suggests that people eat according to their blood type. It lacks scientific backing and can be unnecessarily restrictive.
The Cotton Ball Diet: This dangerous and bizarre fad involves eating cotton balls dipped in juices to fill up the stomach. It’s extremely hazardous and offers no nutritional value.
The Tapeworm Diet: Ingesting tapeworms to lose weight not only sounds grotesque but is incredibly dangerous and can cause serious health issues.
The Baby Food Diet: This involves replacing one or two meals a day with jars of baby food to control calorie intake. It's not satisfying for adults and lacks adequate nutrients for an adult diet.
The Five-Bite Diet: Dieters are allowed only five bites of any food of their choice at meal times. This extreme calorie restriction is not sustainable and can lead to nutritional deficiencies.