You have to hand it to us human beings: we really are willing to go to any lengths in the name of vanity. Injecting, waxing, spraying, tweezing, pummelling. Sign us up! Pain, expense and inconvenience do little (if anything) to dissuade us from the pursuit of the mythical perfect body.
For many, thinness is the ultimate trophy in this forlorn quest. And it is in this goal that fearlessness and foolishness often collide. Weird, possibly (or, very definitely) dangerous diets seem to have been part of the human condition for as long as we’ve had mirrors. Tapeworms, cigarettes, sleeping pills and arsenic are a handful of the methods that have been touted as weight-control ‘miracle’ cures over the centuries. You might scoff, but us modern-day normies are hardly shy of a fad.
