Dangerous Diets: The Cotton Ball Diet The Cotton Ball Diet

The cotton ball diet is sadly a diet trend that keeps growing in popularity. The diet is most popular among models who are constantly feeling the pressure of staying within industry imposed weight standards. Back in June, in an interview for Good Morning America, Bria Murphy, Eddie Murphy's model daughter exposed this very dark side of modeling, which seems like the answer to coping with the pressures of modeling. Even more disturbing is the fact that many teenage girls are also jumping on board of this dangerous diet trend in hopes of getting the “perfect” body. Many of them are in the 9 to 16 age range, which is revealing clue as to how early eating disorders really begin manifesting themselves.

Basically, the idea behind this dangerous diet is eating up to five cotton balls in a sitting by dipping them in orange juice, lemonade or smoothies. The liquid of choice is less important since its role is to act as lubricant and make the cotton balls a little more palatable. 

Some dieters use these “meals” as a way to limit their food intake throughout the day, however, some dieters take the idea to the extreme and substitute all of their meals with this recipe. It doesn't take a degree in medicine to realize that eating something that isn't intended for this purpose can't possibly be healthy, but what exactly are the cotton ball diet dangers?