Five Different Types of Diets

By Lauren Winer

The Morning Banana Diet

The Morning Banana Diet, which consists of eating a banana and drinking a glass of room temperature water for breakfast, was created in Japan by Hitoshi Watanabe. The popularity of this diet caused a banana shortage in Japan.

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Raw Vegan Diet

It consists of eating only foods that have not been heated higher than 115 degrees Fahrenheit. Venus Williams is on the Raw Vegan Diet.

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Twinkie Diet

The Twinkie Diet requires you to eat nothing but Twinkies. Nutrition professor at Kansas State University, Mark Haub, lost 27 pounds in two months on this diet.

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Grapefruit Diet

The Grapefruit Diet has been around since the 1930s. Each meal on this diet includes 8 ounces of grapefruit. Weight loss from this diet is mostly fluids rather than fats.

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Cayenne Pepper Diet

The Cayenne Pepper Diet lasts 10-40 days. The lemonade concoction includes lemon juice, water, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper.

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Sources The Morning Banana Diet

http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/the-morning-banana-diet photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stankuns/2648857215/">Fernando

Stankuns</a> via <a href="http://photopin.com">photopin</a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">cc</a>

The Raw Vegan Diet http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianlifestyle/f/rawfoods.htm http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/07/25/athletes-on-weird-diets/ photo credit: <a

href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewodom/3663375750/">anotherkindofdrew</a> via <a href="http://photopin.com">photopin</a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">cc</a>

Twinkie Diet http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29982001@N04/4628394478/">Photog

Bill</a> via <a href="http://photopin.com">photopin</a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">cc</a>

Grapefruit Diet http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/the-grapefruit-diet photo credit: <a

href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/5456511612/">dullhunk</a> via <a href="http://photopin.com">photopin</a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">cc</a>

Cayenne Pepper Diet http://cayennepepper.net/ photo credit: <a

href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lonbinder/3562900654/">FoodMayhem.com</a> via <a href="http://photopin.com">photopin</a> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">cc</a>