Tight, bulging clothes or even a glance into the mirror can cause some people to think “Enough is enough!” and with those words, a search for a diet is on.  Some diets can be good for health; however, research proves that many are . . . well . . . a little crazy.
       The Beverly Hills Diet claims that someone will loose fourteen pounds in thirty-five days. This diet requires eating just fruits for the first ten days and then consume carbohydrates and protein after the ten days. The rule requires eating only fruits and never to mix protein with carbohydrates, so that the food will digest properly and not to be stored as fat. Jodie Foster and Maria Shriver have been huge fans of this diet. However, this diet, “diarrhoea diet,” is known to have laxative effects from eating large amounts of fruits.  According to TopDiets.com, too much fruit results in an inadequate intake of protein and fat, as well as iron, zinc, vitamin B-12, calcium and essential fatty acids.
    The Lemonade Diet requires users to drink six to twelve glasses of lemonade laced with cayenne pepper and maple syrup. If the diet does not work, then the dieter should have another drink and another until his stomach gets full. In ten days about eighteen pounds should be eliminated.  Some dieters have considered this diet a type of fast diet of ten days; whereas, others, such as the late Naturopath Stanley Burroughs consider the diet as a cleansing or detoxifying diet.  According to Mark Sisson of Primal Nutrition, drinking glass of lemonade after another does not help because after a person stops the diet, weight will be put back on.
   Another crazy diet, called Great Fruit, consists of drinking grape fruit juice for twelve days, according to Mark’s Daily Apple. The diet does drop off pounds but only because the person’s daily intake on this diet stays around 600 calories or less. After stopping this diet, like the Lemon Aid Diet, the weight will be back.
    The Military Cabbage Soup Diet requires followers to consume cabbage as much as they please for seven days. The Military Cabbage Soup Diet claims that in about one week, ten pounds will disappear; however, the diet could cause the body to burn protein as fuel.  The diet lacks in nutrients which will cause the body to loose muscle mass rather than fat and should, therefore, only be consumed as part of a more well-rounded diet. 
   The low-fat diet has less fat than other products, of course, but the truth to the low-fat has been revealed. When some food manufacturers reduced fat in foods, they added sugar to make the taste better.  However, a 12-year study published in 2006 the Journal of the American Medical Association found that low-fat diets didn’t significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, or stroke. The craziest diet, and one of the most horrid, is the Tapeworm Diet which consists of simply swallowing a worm-laced pill and watch as the worm dines off of the food. Yet, eating this worm may cause bloating, nausea, and diarrhea. It was feared by scientist that the worms could lay eggs in other tissues, such as the nervous system, which causes seizures, dementia (mental deterioration) and meningitis (inflammation of the membranes enclosing the brain and spinal cord).