Family Too Poor to Buy Milk Feeds Baby with 1.5 Liters of Coffee a Day
News on an Indonesia toddler who has been living on brewed coffee for the last eight months, because her young parents were too poor to afford formula or cow’s milk, recently shocked millions in East Asia. Hadijah Haura, a 14-month-old girl from the village of Tonro Lima Village, in Indonesia’s West Sulawesi province, consume 3 […]
“Poop Like a Champion” Cereal Is a Product That Exists
It sounds like the sarcastic name of a product you’d expect to hear in a satirical sitcom like The Simpsons, but Poop Like a Champion is an actual cereal that can allegedly get your bowls moving like nothing else. Advertised as “the ultimate colon cleansing formula” or “the number one high fiber cereal for number […]
The True Story of a Man Who Survived Without Eating for 382 Days
Fasting for over a year sounds like the stuff of legends and many actually consider it an urban legend, but an old medical journal offers scientific proof that there once was a man who didn’t eat anything for 382 days and lived to tell the tale. A case study published in the 1973 edition of […]
Woman May Have Suffered Permanent Brain Damage After Going on Liquid Diet for Three Weeks
An Israeli woman in her 40s was recently admitted to the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv with possibly irreversible brain damage after being on a fruit juice and water diet for three weeks. The unidentified woman, who weighed less than 40 kilograms and was in bad physical shape due to the severe salt imbalance caused […]
Breatharian Claims to Survive Solely on Air, Sunlight and a Few Mint Leaves
Khai Ho, 38-year-old self-described breatharian from Birkenhead, in the UK, claims he can last up to three months at a time on only 100 calories per week, surviving only on air, sunlight and the occasional mint leaves. Ho, who works as a pizza deliveryman, claims that he has never taken much interest in food, constantly refusing […]
Chinese Woman Takes Weight Loss Pills for 7 Years, Doubles in Weight
A Chinese woman recently decided to have a stomach reduction operation after seven years of taking weight loss pills and actually putting on 100 pounds more than when she started taking them. 25-year-old Xiaoli (pseudonim) started taking weight loss pills seven years ago, after watching a convincing commercial on TV. She weighed around 100 pounds […]
Man Claims That Eating Only Fruit for Eight Years Has Made Him Superhuman
Mizuki Nakano, a former professor at the University of Tokyo, in Japan, has been consuming only fruit for the last eight years, even shunning water and relying on fruit juices for hydration. He recently came on a Japanese TV show to say that his fruit-only diet has caused his body to somehow convert nitrogen in […]
This Guy Ate a Domino’s Pizza Every Day For a Year, Still Managed to Lose Weight
The vast majority of nutritionists claim that, if you want to lose weight, fast food is among the first things you should cut from your diet, but one man recently proved that you can actually eat pizza every single day and still maintain a healthy figure. Brian Northrup, aka “Lord of Pizza” set out to […]
Panasonic Creates Device That Counts the Calories on Your Plate
If you’re planning to go on a diet, or if you suffer from serious conditions like diabetes, knowing exactly what and how much you’re eating is essential. In this day and age, we have calorie and nutritional calculators even on our smartphones, but they act only as guides, whereas Panasonic’s revolutionary new device, CaloRieco, actually […]
Indian Woman Claims She Hasn’t Eaten Solid Food in 60 Years
Saraswati Bai, a 75-year-old woman from India, claims that she hasn’t consumed a grain of rice, or any other solid food, for that matter, in the last 60 years. Apart from one banana a week – eaten only occasionally – she survives on water and tea alone. Saraswati remembers that she used to have a […]
Student Survives Mostly on 150 Bananas a Week, as Part of “Fruitarian” Diet
21-year-old Dane Nash, from Bristol, UK, gets around 80% of his daily calorie intake from bananas, consuming up to 150 yellow fruits every week. Despite doctors’ warnings, the young “fruitarian” claims that the banana-heavy diet provides “amazing health, endless energy and fantastic all-round well-being”. Dane embraced the vegan lifestyle two years ago, as a way to […]
The Sleeping Beauty Diet – Probably the Dumbest Weight-Loss Diet in History
If you’re sleeping, you’re not eating. That’s basically the main idea behind the Sleeping Beauty Diet, an increasingly popular weight loss method that encourages people to take sedatives in order to sleep for up to 20 hours a day and skip meals. It’s hard to even consider the Sleeping Beauty Diet an actual diet, because it doesn’t […]
Man Loses 32 Pounds Eating Only Ice Cream for 100 Days
Anthony Howard-Crow, a 32-year-old stunt dieter and YouTuber from Loveland, Colorado, recently underwent an unusual diet in order to prove that you can eat pretty much anything and still lose weight as long as you keep an eye on your calorie intake. For 100 days straight, he ate only ice cream, drank a small protein […]
Korean Actress Eats just 3 Spoons of Rice Per Day to Maintain Slender Figure
Popular Korean actress Lee Tae-Im recently sparked a bit of controversy after revealing that she only eats three spoons of rice a day in order to maintain her slim figure. Lee, who was previously known for her curves and overall healthy image, appeared on an episode of MBC Every1’s “Video Star” on Tuesday, where panelists quickly noticed her […]
The Walmart Diet – Man Loses Hundreds of Pounds by Walking to Walmart for Food
A formerly-obese man from Arizona managed to shed 300 pounds of excess weight in three years after he challenged himself to walk to the nearest Wallmart every day to collect his food. 31-year-old Pasquale “Pat” Brocco used to weigh a whopping 605 pounds, but after his doctor warned him that his high blood pressure and high […]