Top Ten Craziest Diet Fads

As Americans, we are always looking for new ways to lose weight and are willing to try just about anything to get the weight off quick. Stop the insanity and eat healthy.

Top Ten Craziest Diet Ideas That Don't Work

Martini Madness
In 1964 Robert Cameron published “The Drinking Man’s Diet.” In Cameron's book he suggests drinking low carb beverages such as, gin or vodka will help you control your carbs.  Bologna!! Not only is it unhealthy for you to drink alcohol daily it doesn't work.

Chewing Your Food Thoroughly
Chewing your food thoroughly says you are to chew your food 32 times but don't swallow your food.  The diet says you can absorb the nutrients from the food without taking in the calories from the food.   However, you will lose weight on this diet, but it will be from malnourishment.

Worms????
There is such a diet as the tapeworm diet.  Pills can be purchased where they are laced with worms and once you ingest them the worms live off the food in your stomach.  You can not purchase the pills in the United States. However, the pills can be purchased online. I wouldn't suggest trying this one, there are serious side affects and health risks involved. 

The Grapefruit Diet
You will have to eat only grapefruit for 12 days.  The diet does work, but it is extremely unhealthy for your you and your stomach and as soon as you resume eating again you will gain all of your weight back.

The Cabbage Diet
The cabbage diet encourages you to consume as much cabbage as you can possibly stand for seven days.  Eating only cabbage for seven days will help you lose weight but there is no protein in cabbage and your family and friends will be running away from you for the next seven days.

The F-Plan
This diet plan has you fill up on high fiber and advocates eating plenty of potatoes, legumes and grains. Okay, we all know eating carbs is one of the worst things you can do for your diet. You may find yourself packing on the weight instead of dropping it off.

Beyonce's Lemon-Aid Diet
Beyonce' drank 6-12 glasses of lemon-aid laced with cayenne pepper and maple syrup to drop the weight quick for her role in Dream Girls.  Beyonce' was the first to admit that she did lose 18 pounds in only 10 days. However, she put it every pound back on as soon as she resumed eating again.

Beer Belly
This diet was conceived around the real scientific law of thermogenesis.  The logic of the diet is that you consume cold food such as beer and ice cream because your body has to work hard before digesting the food.  The only thing your going to get from this diet is a beer gut.

Macrobiotic Diet
This diet focuses around eating whole grains, beans, vegetables with moderate amounts of fish, balancing the yin and the yang.  It was popularized by Madonna. It sounds like it would be a good diet.  However, it can leave you vitamin deficient.

The Low Fat Diet
Manufacturers came out with all these low fat foods and replaced the fat with sodium and sugar to improve the taste. Consuming higher levels of sodium and sugar is terrible for your diet and can cause other health risks.  Consuming fat in moderation can be healthy for you. 

Stick to low sodium, low sugar diets while consuming all your major food groups in moderation is still the best way to diet.  Don't look at it as dieting. Look at it as changing your eating habits permanently.  The quick fix will help you lose weight but you will put it all back on plus more when you return to eating like a human again.

Trouble Filling Positions?

Some companies are claiming despite the high unemployment rate, they are having trouble filling the positions.  Employers are claiming they are getting flooded with applicants for the positions they are posting. However, they are only getting a few applicants who are qualified.  Then maybe it's time to train some people to actually get them back to work or put the requirements back to what they were before the job market got flooded with the unemployed.  Too many companies turn down the over qualified because they feel they will be unsatisfied with the position and the pay.  However, if you are unemployed and collecting unemployment you are facing your benefits coming to an end.  You are willing to take just about any job at that point.  Most unemployed clearly understand they are going to make significantly less money than they did at their previous jobs.  The problem is employers don't want to give us the opportunity to do the job.  I wonder if sometimes the people doing the hiring are threatened by hiring someone who is capable of doing their job.  Therefore, they go for the less skilled worker who is not a threat to their position.  We are not after their position.  We are after a job.  I am a over qualified for many of the positions I apply for. The thing that puzzles me is why are so few employers calling me.  A few have told me after interviews they don't feel I would be satisfied with the position and didn't hire me.  For most of the positions I have applied for I do have several years of experience performing the tasks they are asking, but they don't call.  You would think working at the same job for 10 years would show commitment and that would be a good quality.  However, I am still having a difficult time finding a job. Another problem is employers have raised their requirements for a position and lowered the pay. What kills me is they blame the jobless benefits for their problems.  They claim people are being more picky about the jobs because of all the unemployment benefits.  They need a reality check.  Granted, unemployment is still money coming in while your laid off.  But, it's not enough to pay all the bills.  Many families have lost their homes because they could no longer afford their home on unemployment.  Let me ask you a question. Since when has anyone ever needed a associates degree in business to be a secretary?  I'm sorry but that is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. I was an office manager for 10 years. I trained secretaries to do their jobs but I am not qualified even though I performed secretarial tasks at my job.  Go figure. Employers have the answer right under their nose.  All they have to do is open their eyes.

Girls Entering Puberty As Early As Age 7

New studies have shown girls are entering into puberty as early as age 7.  Some Pediatricians claim that is partly due to a rise in obesity in youth, others have no clue why young girls are entering into puberty at an earlier age.  About 10 years back studies were done on young girls who entered into puberty at an earlier age and scientists put some of the blame on the hormones that are now being pumped into our animals by farmers to increase the amount of meat they can get from the animal.  Some of the problems with childhood obesity can also be blamed on the hormones that are injected into our animals. Now if farmers are pumping our animals full of hormones and we are feeding the meat to our children, it is going to have an effect on their bodies.  I am guilty myself of eating meat from the grocery store and feeding it to my children.  The economy gives us no choice.  Unless you can afford to go and buy meat from markets that only sell hormone free meat.  The problem is, it is very costly and The Food and Drug Administration should do something about the farmers pumping the animals full of hormones.  The problem is nobody really seems to care what they do to our meat.  The scary part is they now allow stores to purchase their meat from other countries to sell.  If you didn't know that, check some of the meat labels in grocery stores.  Walmart is really bad for selling a lot of meat from other countries. We don't really know the regulations in other countries, but people continue to buy meat shipped over here to the United States.  Is it possible to buy anything made in America anymore?   To me, it seems like the Food and Drug Administration is becoming slightly slack on following through with their regulations and monitoring what goes on.  You know there are problems when there are recalls on food almost weekly on the news.  I think the government has put our health second to money and they are allowing the farmers and the stores to do so too.  What is it going take before the government steps in and makes stiffer regulations on some of these companies and what is imported into this country to be consumed by Americans?  Infants have even had health complications from plastic baby bottles and formula. The government officials all sit around a table and compare the amount of money the country is making on imports to the health risks involved.  Guess what, they voted on the money not our health.

The Crazy Shit People Do For Money

A 42 year old man of the African Nation of Togo attempted to board a plane four weeks ago. The man showed signs of being nervous and it alerted security.  It was discovered the man had swallowed 85 condoms filled with cocaine to smuggle into Houston, Texas. How stupid can you be to swallow 85 condoms filled with cocaine?  You can't even depend on a condom to hold sperm and prevent pregnancy. But, your stupid enough to believe it will hold the weight of cocaine?  In a way, it possibly saved his life that he got caught carrying the condoms full of cocaine.  If just one of those condoms broke it could have been fatal for him.  How did he plan on getting all of those condoms out without possibly breaking one of them.  Then he wouldn't be around to even spend the money from carrying drugs over here. The crazy shit people will do for money.

Inmate Sues The Crime Victims?????

A Florida inmate is suing his victims for $500,000 in damages.  Michael Dupree is serving 12 year sentence for a burglary and cocaine possession.  Dupree is claiming his victims used excessive force with him and he is suffering from permanent disabilities and psychological damage.  The victim had put him in a shoulder lock until the police arrived.  He broke into a car, stole a bike and was found hiding naked. The victim held Dupree in a shoulder lock until the police got there. Doesn't Dupree think he used excessive force when he broke into the car and then stole someones bike to escape on? Dupree is just a little sour because he got busted.  As far as the psychological damage, I think he already had psychological problems if he is running around naked.  How is it possible that a criminal can even possibly sue their victims in the first place. Our judicial system seriously needs some work. Not only is he wasting our tax dollars by taking care of his ass in prison. The judicial system is going to allow him to waste more of our tax dollars on a senseless on a senseless lawsuit. The judge should have laughed at him and sent him back to his cell. That alone is crazy.  How can a civilian be sued for using excessive force?  That's insane!

Epic Fail Tattoos

In loving memory, maybe he should have found a better tattoo artist.

What church does he go to? lol

Okay, what the hell was she thinking?

Okay, is she still going to love pac man when she's 50?

Does he really want to look like this when he has children? His children are going to have nightmares about their father.

I bet her man is enjoying that tattoo from behind.  Her sex life may be over.

This one should be hanging in tattoo parlors to remind people what they will look like when their older when they decide to get their bizarre & strange tattoos.

Seasonal Items

I understand the concept on trying to get a head start on the back to school shopping.  I did today only because they put everything out so early you have to go and buy some of the back to school supplies at Target if you want to get the good stuff at a cheap price because the bins are already half empty. My beef with the whole thing is, it is still summer! What if I need to buy items for my summer needs.  I have been in the stores looking for a few miscellaneous items for the backyard and I can't find them because they already pulled most of the summer items off the shelf. For example, a grill and some clips to hand up the streaming lights. With all the storms lately a lot of my clips blew away and my grill quit on me yesterday. I have to buy a new grill. I absolutely hate cooking in the house during the summer. It's just too damn hot even with the central air on. However, since it is toward the end of July. Your grill selection is very slim. Now, there are still about 2 or more months left of grilling. Don't they stop and think that someone may want to buy a grill in July.  For crying out loud they put the grills out in March before anyone even starts grilling.  No one is thinking about buying a grill in March. The same goes with Halloween and Christmas.  They start putting out the Halloween items in August and the Christmas items in October.  Who the hell wants to think about Christmas in October? Let me get through the school shopping and Halloween before you start shoving Christmas decorations down my throat.  Then when you run to the store in December when your putting up your decorations and need a few more items you can't find everything you need  because all the good decorations has already been picked over. I don't know about you, but I am sure as hell not pulling out my decorations in October to see what items I may need. It seems like every year they start putting the stuff out earlier and earlier. The whole thing is beginning to get ridiculous!