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Whether your dietary restrictions are due to legitimate health issues, or are voluntary choices made so that you’ll have something to talk about at parties — the reasons can often be quite hilarious. Except if it’s to avoid diarrhea… that’s serious.
Michelle Rial of the Bold Italic thinks so, and has created Dietary Restrictions to help break down a few diets that are all the rage.
And, if you’re not sure which diet you should try… the answer is always hummus. 
[link, via designtaxi]
We’ve tried all the fad diets. Now there’s finally a weight-loss program [fingers crossed] that works. And there’s tacos.
The Taco Cleanse, brought to us by mad genius and vegan Lazy Smurf, is just what the name implies… An excuse to eat nothing but yummy tacos while we watch the pounds peel off. The diet, according to Lazy Smurf, can last anywhere from one day to a whole month.
Want in? Start with Smurf’s handy How To Prepare For A Taco Cleanse, and the rest should probably work itself out. Happy tacoing.
[link, via First We Feast]
Ricettario: A Balanced Diet takes the term a bit literally, with a photo series of meals precariously resting on each other. Brought to us by stylist Elena Mora and photographer Karsten Wegener — meals are broken down by component, with the ingredients defying gravity and making us hungry.
American cuisine was horrifying enough in the 1970s. Now, add calorie counting and recipes supplied by a company whose primary objective is to make sure that you starve, and you get Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974.
And it’s no wonder why the company has been so successful. Just looking at such recipes as Cabbage Casserole Czarina and Fluffy Mackerel Pudding, the cards are effective enough to ruin appetites here in 2012. Well done, Weight Watchers.
See more frightening cuisine here.
[via Retronaut]
These Diet Biscuits aren’t low-cal, or low-fat — but are instead, highly-discouraging. Created by Rome-based Fonderia collective, the biscuit’s intent is to make you feel bad about eating them, and encourage you to stick to your diet. Or, you can just eat those chocolate chip cookies you have in the cupboard — they’ve been nothing but nice.
[link, via Inspire Me Now]