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The Mens Room Daily Podcast

10 Most Bizarre and Dangerous Diets In History

The Mens Room Daily Podcast

Audacy

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

Ted, what day is it, my friend?

0:02.0

Hop Day.

0:03.0

It's also National Ted Day.

0:04.0

However, it's also International No Diet Day.

0:07.0

Oh.

0:08.0

No Diet?

0:09.0

I live it every day, Mike.

0:10.0

So what does one try to find on International No Diet Day?

0:19.0

Let's find those diets that people left behind because, quite

0:21.6

frankly, they were bogus, they were bizarre, they were bizarre, they were bizarre, so these are the 10 most bizarre and unsafe diets from history. Oh, okay. Oh, from history. From the 1970s, also, if you've ever heard of any of these, from the 1970s, have you guys heard of the vision diet? Vision?

0:37.2

The vision diet.

0:37.9

If you see food, you eat it?

0:39.2

It's probably more like you just look at it, you don't eat it? Yeah, right. This theory suggested wearing blue-tinted glasses to make food look unappealing based on the idea that the color blue represses, suppresses appetite. Are you kidding me? The color blue. So I love french fries, but with these blue glasses on, I suddenly don't want to eat them. That's why very few fast food places use the color blue because red and yellow are the ones that kind of pay your hunger. Correct. Wendy's Burger King, McDonald's, Carl Jr., are almost every fast food restaurant.

1:11.6

Chick-fil-A's Robin.

1:13.2

Yeah. Taco Bell's really the only one that kind of takes the left-hand turn on that, but it's like it's late-night.

1:16.8

This is like a month. They still got red and yellow. They got red and yellow. So that's the thing. red, yellow and orange, when they do all these color studies, those are things that

1:24.2

even if you're not hungry, they make your appetite, make you want to eat.

1:28.9

So that's why when you look hungry, they make your appetite, make you want to eat.

1:28.8

So that's why when you look at most of these restaurant logos, it's going to be red, yellow or orange.

1:33.5

Pizza Hut, Dominoes, Taco Del Mar, they all feature.

1:36.6

Happened to me Sunday.

1:37.7

Every time Lewis Hamilton went by in the red Ferrari with his yellow helmet, I said, Nick, I think I'm hungry.

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