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Robert Downey's Japanese sushi tapeworm diet: What off-the-wall diet have you tried and swear on?

James Alex 2009/12/16 21:46:32
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Robert Downey Jr. got in shape because he got sick. The 44-year-old actor has had to get fit for his action-packed roles in 'Iron Man 2' and 'Sherlock Holmes' and although he has been exercising regularly an illness he picked up in Japan kick-started his weight loss.

He is quoted as saying: "I was in Japan promoting 'Iron Man', and I went to a restaurant where I contracted a parasite and got really sick for three days.

"I started losing weight and thought to myself, 'Hey this is a nice jump-start!' It just gave me a nice little head-start with the first five pounds and then I kept going until I was thin, I felt as though I may float away."

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  • tisiga 2009/12/28 20:46:38
    I don't diet! I eat healthy, balanced meals 3 times a day, and don't need Rob...
    tisiga
    i think diet are not good for u because its just wrong to hurt ur body like that.! i never diet and i feel great.even if i am a kind of big but not too big or small.
  • Lynn 2009/12/18 19:55:43
    I tried this diet where you...
    Lynn
    I tried this diet where you eat a healthy balance of nutritious foods in appropriate quantities. I swear by it!
  • Kylie 2009/12/18 17:20:11
    I tried this diet where you...
    Kylie
    like c food u eat it. A diet is nothing > wat u eat so if i eat mcdonald for brkfst and subay for lunch and dominoes for dinner and some where in ther dorito's and hot chips that's my diet. ik is doesn't sound healthy but if u run 2 mile andwalk 4 -10 miles a day not including the dogs and sports u need to eat something with a lot of calories to fit your physical activiies.
  • Erebus 2009/12/18 11:29:20
    I tried this diet where you...
    Erebus
    +1
    i tried this diet where you....dont overstuff yourself with fried foods and soda in addition to staying away from fast food places...it worked wonders....
  • Irechan 2009/12/18 10:08:58
    I don't diet! I eat healthy, balanced meals 3 times a day, and don't need Rob...
    Irechan
    +1
    Think I'd rather starve than have a 30meter parasite live in my gut...

    ugh
  • rejimaru 2009/12/18 06:38:47
    I don't diet! I eat healthy, balanced meals 3 times a day, and don't need Rob...
    rejimaru
    +1
    I eat what I want.
  • Peon of the Masses 2009/12/18 03:35:10
    I don't diet! I eat healthy, balanced meals 3 times a day, and don't need Rob...
    Peon of the Masses
    +1
    That sounds quite foolish.
  • Foxy Flo 2009/12/17 19:38:26
    I don't diet! I eat healthy, balanced meals 3 times a day, and don't need Rob...
    Foxy Flo
    +1
    Why would you make yourself sick to get fit?!
  • brebre456 2009/12/17 17:57:41
    I tried this diet where you...
    brebre456
    work you and eat healthy food
    and not get a parasite in your body
    its safe and it also works if you but enough effort into this
    this advice is really not what i see as a diet srry
  • Rain_Storm 2009/12/17 16:45:29
    I tried this diet where you...
    Rain_Storm
    a lazy ass
  • 1234 (sucka) 2009/12/17 08:49:19
    I don't diet! I eat healthy, balanced meals 3 times a day, and don't need Rob...
    1234 (sucka)
    +1
    Do you know that in the early part of the 20th centuary women use to buy and eat tapeworms as weightloss products
  • sara 1234 (s... 2009/12/28 03:34:18
    sara
    yup, it worked too. I knew a girl in elementary school, 6th grade, she had one and was skinny as a rail. hahaha does it better than a pill
  • Selkie 2009/12/17 07:05:25
    I tried this diet where you...
    Selkie
    +1
    I tried the Rice Diet once & lost ten pounds in 5 days! However, all I could eat was plain white or brown rice (Nothing added) & fruit, Mostly bananas. By the end of the fifth day I was ready to KILL! I went on Jenny Craig for 6 weeks once, too. I gained four pounds but lost my gall bladder. . .
    kill jenny craig 6 weeks gained pounds lost gall bladder
  • wpsark_... Selkie 2009/12/17 21:50:07
    wpsark_BN_0
    +1
    lol, not that losing your gall bladder is funny, but just how you said it.
  • Kari 2009/12/17 06:25:16
    I don't diet! I eat healthy, balanced meals 3 times a day, and don't need Rob...
    Kari
    +1
    I've tried diets, and known countless people who have tried diets. In short, they all failed. My Dad actually lost 40 pounds with the Atkins diet. Of course, he realized at a point that he couldn't live the rest of his life on red meat and eggs, and gained back all of the weight. Diets don't work, that's the bottom line. Living a healthy lifestyle does. Eating right, and exercising is a great thing for anyone. It can work wonders, really. I realize this poll about Robert Downey Jr.'s tapeworm diet probably wasn't meant to be taken too seriously, haha. But really, Americans are the worst for getting sucked into fad diets, and judging by America's outrageous obesity rates, it obviously isn't working. Just live healthy, exercise ... that's the best thing for you.
  • san 2009/12/17 04:40:20
    I don't diet! I eat healthy, balanced meals 3 times a day, and don't need Rob...
    san
    Or maybe he was trying to make a lite of being sick.
  • Pablo 2009/12/17 03:34:29
    I don't diet! I eat healthy, balanced meals 3 times a day, and don't need Rob...
    Pablo
    +1
    The tapeworm "diet" is not a diet at all. It is putting a foreign living thing into your intestines. What is does, is eat what you have eaten, before you are able to completely digest it. It causes weight loss and eventually starvation. The tapeworm also has the ability to reproduce inside you intestines, and lo and behold, more tapeworms are born into your system. It is almost impossible to get rid of them once they have invaded your body. This has been done frequently over the years, and is not at all recommended by ANY DOCTOR, except ,of course, a witch doctor.
    Not a good idea.
    Pablo
  • wpsark_... Pablo 2009/12/17 21:53:10
    wpsark_BN_0
    +1
    also, a tapeworm can regenerate from broken pieces of itself, so just one could turn into thousands...hence pot bellies
  • Kane Fernau 2009/12/17 00:22:06
    I tried this diet where you...
    Kane Fernau
    +1
    Imagine passing a 30 foot Tapeworm.
  • Redneck 2009/12/16 22:38:06
    I tried this diet where you...
    Redneck
    +3
    the Redneck Diet. If it dies, it fries.
  • loversA... Redneck 2009/12/16 23:13:08
    loversAddiction
    haha like it..
  • Pablo Redneck 2009/12/17 03:30:28
    Pablo
    +1
    How about the seafood diet......?
    I see food, I eat it.....
    Ha ha ha
    Pablo
  • SenorBabyMan 2009/12/16 22:23:29
    I tried this diet where you...
    SenorBabyMan
    +1
    I tried this diet called the eat-right-and-exercise-regularly diet.... it works, and has been around for centuries!

    But it doesn't seem to work for fat lazy-asses though.... even scientists are baffled!
  • Pablo SenorBa... 2009/12/17 03:29:44
    Pablo
    Amen....threre is no magic bullet in dieting. It seems so often a new diet replaces another diet, replaces another diet.......the best one I know of was the Scarsdate diet......lead........45 caliber......to the stomach.
    Pablo
  • 凸凹 2009/12/16 22:22:14
    I don't diet! I eat healthy, balanced meals 3 times a day, and don't need Rob...
    凸凹
    +1
    He may be the Iron Man, but... ok I don't have anything clever to say!
  • moomoof 2009/12/16 22:21:43
    I don't diet! I eat healthy, balanced meals 3 times a day, and don't need Rob...
    moomoof
    I don't diet look at the word die-t you die because they are not good for you
  • Matt 2009/12/16 22:14:28
    I tried this diet where you...
    Matt
    I'm on the "just got a tooth pulled" diet. I still managed to scarf down a quart of yogurt and a cup of ramien noodles.
  • Cass 2009/12/16 21:56:41
    I tried this diet where you...
    Cass
    +1
    Mmmm sushi everyday, I would so do this diet!!!;-)
  • brainiac 2009/12/16 21:52:26
    I tried this diet where you...
    brainiac
    +1
    I'm a vegetarian, so I don't know if that counts as being on a diet... but does make regulating my diet easier.
  • CoutureGal82 2009/12/16 21:50:33
    I tried this diet where you...
    CoutureGal82
    +3
    throw up everything you eat. it's called the stomach flu.
  • doodlebug 2009/12/16 21:49:47
    I don't diet! I eat healthy, balanced meals 3 times a day, and don't need Rob...
    doodlebug
    +3
    Diets for the weak! I eat steak all day, every day! MUAHAHA
  • OMG itz IRENE 2009/12/16 21:48:09
    I tried this diet where you...
    OMG itz IRENE
    +1
    don't eat meat or dairy products, since they're so high on fat...
  • PanicSw... OMG itz... 2009/12/16 22:00:38 (edited)
    PanicSwitch
    +3
    that diet will only make you lack calcium and protein, which is extremely vital for women because of our bones. Don't worry! If you don't eat any diary products, by the time you're 50, you'll break your hip. :D Drink low-fat milk and eat low-fat yogurt.

    vital women bones worry eat diary products 50 break hip

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