The Strange Ways People Around the World Lose Weight

Japan - Wear Glasses with Blue Lenses
In Japan, to prevent overeating, people wear special sunglasses with blue lenses. They believe that the blue tint makes them eat less.

France - Eat with a Fork
One popular diet in France involves eating food with a fork because it limits the intake of foods like sandwiches, nuts, pizza, and burgers.

Ancient Rome - Eat Cabbage
In ancient Rome, people used cabbage soup for weight loss. A prominent statesman named Cato the Elder followed a cabbage-based diet and believed that the green color of cabbage could cure everything, from wound healing to hangover recovery.

China - Eat Sunlight
In China, some people follow a diet where they skip a meal and instead spend 44 minutes in direct sunlight. This is said to reduce appetite and improve sleep. One of the biggest supporters of this method, Hira Ratan, claims that he has eaten nothing but sunlight since 1995!

Australia - Love Kangaroo Meat
People who follow this diet are known as "Kangarooists" and eat only kangaroo meat. They believe that this meat, unlike beef or chicken, is more environmentally friendly. Additionally, kangaroo meat is low in calories and high in protein, which helps with weight loss.

Spain - Eat Everything with Bread
Though controversial due to the high carbohydrate content of bread, Spaniards believe replacing one meal per day with a sandwich can lead to a weight loss of 6 kilograms per month. The bread for the sandwich must be whole wheat, multi-grain, or rye.

Japan - Imitate Cinderella
Some international diets are truly strange, and some can even be dangerous! The Japanese believe in imitating Cinderella’s figure. Nutritionists suggest measuring your height in meters, squaring the result (multiplying it by four), and then multiplying that number by 18 to find your ideal weight.

England - Take Arsenic Pills
In the 1800s, arsenic pills were considered a miracle cure for obesity and also sped up metabolism. It is noteworthy that arsenic was also used as rat poison!

India - Eat According to the Yin-Yang Balance
One diet followed by Buddhist monks (also known as Zen) is the Yin-Yang diet. Followers of this diet adhere to strict rules to balance the passive, cold, and dark Yin with the active, warm Yang in their meals. All foods must include five colors and five tastes.

China - Eat Earthworms
In China, eating earthworms is believed to help with weight loss, and they're also cheap. In the 1920s, pharmacies in the U.S. sold pills containing these worms.

Japan - Eat Bananas for Breakfast

This diet allows you to eat whatever you want as long as you have a raw banana for breakfast and finish dinner by 8 PM. Desserts and dairy products are forbidden, and this has led to an increase in banana imports to Japan.

France - Pretend to Eat
This diet, which became popular in February 2010, involves pretending to eat without actually putting food in your mouth. It's a strict method of saying no to food.

USA - Eat Baby Food
In this diet, you eat baby food for your three main meals and snacks, leading to weight loss.

USA - Eat Cotton Balls
This diet involves soaking cotton balls in orange juice or lemonade and swallowing them before meals. This helps you feel full, causing you to eat less. This bizarre and incorrect weight loss trick has been used by women in various regions of the U.S. for years.

England - Don’t Live Near Swamps
In the 1720s, a doctor named Thomas wrote that excessive moisture is linked to weight gain and advised living in dry areas to avoid obesity.

Scotland - Eat Soap
In the 1700s, a Scottish doctor named Malcolm Fleming recommended eating soap to lose weight. He believed that since sweat, urine, and feces of someone who ate soap contained oil, it was a good way to expel oil from the body.

England - Drink Vinegar
19th-century poet Lord Byron, famous for his romantic poems, suggested drinking vinegar as a weight loss solution. Excessive vinegar consumption causes diarrhea and vomiting, which ultimately leads to weight loss.

USA - Chew but Don’t Swallow
Several studies show that chewing food increases calorie burn, but Horace Fletcher believed that each bite should be chewed 100 times and then spit out the remains.

USA - Eat Too Much Steak
The concept of this diet is very simple: you just need to eat boiled beef in every meal. According to James Sallisori, eating too many vegetables and starches harms the digestive system.

Scotland - Live on Milk
George Chin, in his search for a weight loss method, encountered a doctor who claimed to have survived for 17 years by drinking only milk. George followed this method, consuming only milk and vegetables, and described it as the key to his weight loss and survival.