How to effectively and quickly lose weight: tips from past centuries
Eating tapeworms, fresh duck broth, and a few other horrific tricks.
There is a month and a half left before the opening of the summer season – during this record time, girls must have time to get themselves in perfect shape in order to confidently flaunt on the beach in a bikini. If you are suddenly looking for the perfect diet, remember that it is better to eat a lot of greens and go to cardio every other day than to try on yourself at least one diet similar to the ones we are going to tell you about.
In the 1800s, many people suffered from tuberculosis, which was accompanied by extreme weight loss, which absolutely all girls liked. The XNUMXth century physician Thomas Trotter lamented that women liked the way they looked when they got the disease, even though their complexions turned yellowish.
Decisive was the fact that the Victorian muse Lizzie Siddal also fell ill with tuberculosis, although she herself believed that she had anorexia and she was losing weight because of opium. Many women leaned on it to be thin, but the consequences from it are not the best, we are sure you yourself know about it.
Lizzie Siddall
Get ready for the fact that we will now tell you not the most pleasant story, but it is very real. In the Victorian era, there were dresses in fashion that accentuate the waist with a corset. It is clear that the girl’s waist had to be very thin (many tightened the corset so tightly that the ribs were deformed). More courageous ladies decided on a very terrible, but effective diet – they ate tapeworm, which was supposed to live in the intestines and absorb the food that the girl ate. Resourceful pharmacists began to sell pills from which the very worms hatched.
The terrible thing is that the worm grew inside a person, and its length was almost 9 meters. When everyone knew about this, the girls tried to get rid of them, but it was not so easy. Pharmacies began selling pills that were supposed to kill worms. One of the doctors suggested that the girls sit with their mouths open in front of a cup of milk, as he was sure that the smell of milk would attract the worm, and it would crawl out through the mouth. However, whether it worked or not is unknown.
The Austrian Empress (1837 – 1898) could impress any girl with her thinness. She led a very active lifestyle – she walked a lot, went horseback riding, and could climb rocks. But her eating habits were quite unusual. So that the waist was aspen, Sissy ate 6 raw eggs with salt for breakfast, and drank an extract of fresh ducks and milk for lunch. To make it easier to prepare dinner, the chefs used a juicer, which squeezed juice not only from fruits and vegetables, but also from meat.
Every girl at least once in her life has heard that you can lose weight while sleeping. Sounds very attractive indeed. Presumably, Elvis Presley himself loved the method of losing weight, which we will now talk about. So, the idea of a diet is that a person cannot eat while sleeping. Therefore, a person who dreams of losing weight was immersed in sleep for several days with the help of large doses of sedatives. The problem was that these drugs could ruin health as well as disrupt the natural sleep cycle. To prevent a person from waking up very hungry, specialists conducted psychotherapy sessions during their sleep, during which they talked about food, so the person had the feeling that he was actually eating.
In the XNUMXth century, girls preferred to wear rubber rather than cotton underwear. It was believed that rubber pants will help you lose weight due to its slimming properties, and this will increase sweating. However, this did not help at all, but on the contrary, only worsened the health of women. The ladies suffered from constriction of organs and overheating, no wonder that everyone had thrush and other diseases.