That's enough to put us off food for a while.

This helpful CNN listicle assembled by our friends at mental_floss takes a backwards-looking journey through dieting to expose various food trends as far back as the 18th century. We especially dislike the sound of the Master Cleanse diet, whose principle ingredients you see at right.

It just goes to show, science has come along way, but so has the marketing of dangerous promises to insecure people. So don’t get sold on the Sleeping Beauty diet, or listen when some art dealer tells you to chew your food for ages then spit it out, because those are just other examples of these 10 Dangerous Diets.

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