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Individually, we are all smart, the masses - not always. One need only look at the list of 15 most bizarre ideas for health and beauty, to understand to what stupidity can sometimes reach people.

Vibrating belt

There was a time not so distant (1950 and 60th years), when people thought that the fat can be removed if its just a good rub. Women around the world wrapped vibrating belt around their “problem areas” to “shake” fat. Over the years, it turned out that this device - as effective as advice on diet of a person suffering from overweight.

Worms for weight loss

If you are comfortable with the fact that you will live inside another organism, then the worms to lose weight - for you. When you begin to “eat for two, you can eat as much as you want, and you still will lose weight. But here the employees of the Office for Food and Drug Administration, it seems, his accounts of these creatures, so willing to resort to black marketeers or traveling abroad to buy himself of these parasites.

Oxygen Bars

One clever person used to say: “Every minute one is born a simpleton.” Woody Harrelson, probably inspired by this statement and opened its first oxygen bar for simpletons. Why simpletons? Yes, because now people are paying for it to breathe air, and hoping that it will help them feel energized, strong and popular.

The foreskin of infants

In some cultures, taken to remove the foreskin of infants. Now, modern cosmetics have found a by-product remaining from this procedure, a new use - to remove wrinkles from her face. What is most interesting is the fact that many of those who use such cosmetics, and sometimes do not even know what they’re rubbing his skin - at the bottle of cream is hardly mentioned that the membership included “the foreskin of infants.”

Urinotherapy

What are the similarities between the ancient Egyptians, modern Indians and Gennady Malakhov? They drink their own urine. Many believe that if you drink their own urine, she can cure you of everything - from cancer and arthritis to allergies. Madness reached the point that one Indian company has started selling soft drink cow’s urine.

Eating the placenta

Placenta - a special body, absorbing oxygen and nutrients, displaying the slag and toxins, and is a bond with the mother of the fetus and the outside world. Tom Cruise, obeying the rules of the new religion - Scientology, he decided to eat the placenta to her baby. That would be a joke if he was alone. However, Cruz - just one of many who decided to follow becoming the popular trend, whose roots go back to Japan. Mania comes to the fact that people start to drink beverages with the placenta of animals (pigs, horses, etc.), assuming that each cup slows the aging process and helps eliminate other health problems. In the U.S., the most common form of eating the placenta - in the tablets.

Botox

We live in strange times when beauty is sold in bottles, and women willing to risk all to become more beautiful. Maybe you’ve seen women with deformed lips, swollen cheeks, and half-centuries - all this bad consequences of the introduction of Botox. However, even their frightening pictures adorn interesting articles do not reduce the popularity of “cosmetic poison.” On the contrary, BOTOX attributed an increasing number of useful properties, such as the latest “trick” - Botox to prevent sweating in the armpits.

Lemon Diet

Supporters of lemon diet say that this drink (a strange mix of cayenne pepper, water, lemon juice and maple syrup), burns calories and eliminate toxins from the body. Medical examiner believed that these people are fools. Of course, doctors say, you can lose a few pounds this way, but because they also can lose, just not eating a couple of days.

Simulator for the hips

Prior abdominal trainer Ab Roller was a trainer for the thighs Thigh Master-strange-looking device sold in teleshopping in the 90th. And although the practicality of this invention could argue, but when you use it people just look stupid, trainer for several years in a row is pretty good sale. If this is not proof of human folly, the more options, probably not.

Acai

As soon as Oprah Winfrey mentioned the acai berry on his show, their popularity shot up to heaven. People thought that they burn calories, increase energy and simply work wonders. Only recently, studies have shown that a simple blueberry is a much more antioxidants, cranberries burns far more calories, and of course the berries will not be able to cure cancer.

Ionized Bracelet

This bracelet supposedly relieves pain, relieves stress, helps to heal the joints, raised a charge of vivacity in the body and makes you more enduring athlete. At least, so says advertising. Unfortunately, the 2002 Clinic «Mayo Clinic» proved that the ad is shameless lies, and forced her to return more than $ 87 million to its customers.

Mask of bird excrement

Most people believe that if a bird excrement smudge on the face of another person, it offends him. And here in New York is considered an expensive cosmetic treatment - one course costs interested in the whole $ 180. Some say that in the past, women used similar masks from nightingale excrement for centuries. Today, modern American queues lining up for the birds’ excrement, and then to smear them on your face.

Food Film

Some players in American schools wrapped garbage bags to raise the tone. Today, this method uses a woman to lose a few extra pounds. Looks like nobody told them that by using this method, they just lose water from the body, which then re-recruited by drinking a couple glasses of water.

Classes striptiznoy plasty

In an ideal world everyone could enjoy a dance in six of their wives or girlfriends. But this world is not perfect. In the real world only rappers and rock stars have a chance to enjoy dancing with a pole in the performance of their wives and girlfriends who do it to stay in shape. And we only left to shrug and wonder, why bother to shoot these video lessons and then sell them.

Ing a diet of

Favorite Diet Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jamie Pressly - a diet of cabbage soup - gaining new popularity every couple of years. The idea of a diet - to lose calories, still is. Only there you can only soup, but once in a soup almost no calories, it means that you will soon “guaranteed to” lose the extra pounds. Only need something to get used to the constant headaches, fainting, bad mood, flatulence and loss of concentration, which accompany this diet (by the way, just like any other).