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Phil Hall

10 Weirdest Diets Of All Time, Including A Few Deadly Ones

Orson Welles once observed, “Gluttony is not a secret vice.” Indeed, many people who find themselves on the road to Wellesian-worthy proportions of corpulence eagerly seek quickie solutions to shed the excess poundage they acquired.

Over the years, diets ranging from the ineffective to the fatal have assaulted an XL-sized population willing to try anything. For the sake of brevity and as a word of warning, here is our selection for the 10 weirdest diets of all time.

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