Chicago - Its rumored Victorian women had their ribs removed to look slim. Who can forget Scarlett OHaras corset, pulled so painfully tight?
Desperate dieters have even turned to tape worms, inserting a sometimes deadly parasite in their bodies, to lose weight.
But the newest, most extreme diet to hit the scene is the feeding tube diet. Brides to be are doing it for their big day, eating only liquids through a feeding tube until theyre ready to walk down the aisle.
FOX Chicago medical contributor Dr. Mona Khana is disturbed by the fact that doctors are going along with this extreme diet.
I think any doctor who inserts a feeding tube into someone for the purpose of weight loss should have their license taken away, Khana said.
Northwestern registered dietitian Heather Harrington said the feeding tube diet is not medically safe to do as wedding and bathing suit season approaches.
Search rapid weight loss on Google, and youll get 10 million results, and many of them are not recommended by doctors.
Expectations are high, and the public is constantly fed images of celebrities with great bodies.
Singer Beyonce famously did the Master Cleanse, dropping 20 lbs. for the movie musical Dreamgirls, for which Chicago native Jennifer Hudson won an Academy Award. The Kardashian sisters boast that diet pills work for them.
Thinspo, short for thin and inspiration, is a huge blog forum currently gaining traction online where where gaunt looking women often post pictures of themselves. They promote whats known at the air diet, where they pretend to eat, but are really only taking in air.
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