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After we posted our article about the prune juice diet, an astute reader sent us some information about various diets that feature laxatives. The prune juice diet was among these. We can collectively refer to all of, or even each of, these diets as the diarrhea diet.

You will lose weight with any of these diets. But, you won't like the results. These include discomfort, bowel irritation, gas, bloating, dehydration, irritability, sleep loss, and social embarrassment.

These diets involve overdosing on laxatives and/or eating massive quantities of:

• Cabbage (including sauerkraut)

• Beans (not baked beans, which are mostly sugar)

• Celery, radishes, and other bulky vegetables

Some variations require you to drink several gallons of water each day, while also taking garlic, multivitamins, and/or various herbal supplements.

Not only is this kind of diet downright pathetic, you will look and feel pathetic if you do something so utterly desperate and stupid as to go on this whacko diet.

You could end up in the emergency room, and you might leave there with permanent disabilities.

People who promote these stupid diets do so simply for attention and control. They want to get other people to see them as experts and then submit to their control by going on one of these diets while they tell their friends and laugh themselves silly that anyone would actually do such a thing.

Don't humiliate yourself by going on one of these diarrhea diets.

Yes, you will lose weight. But you are not necessarily going to lose fat. You will lose  water and solid waste material, all of which will come back once the diet is done. Assuming you survive this diet. Don't laugh--this diet is a favorite among anorexics, and the death toll is appalling.

People most commonly die from this diet due to dehydration and nutrient-deprivation, but they also die from other effects. The longer you are on such a diet, the more likely you will die from the failure of one or more major organs. Once the condition is diagnosed, it's usually too late.

The only positive effect of this diet is the extra exercise you get running to the toilet. Assuming you are still able to run once you are in a coma. Other than that, this diet's a load of crap. In more ways than one.

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