You ready for some crazy talk right now? The cotton ball diet suggests dipping cotton balls in juice and eating them in order to curb your hunger and lowering your calorie intake. This emerged within the modeling industry, with women who felt the pressure to be thin at an unhealthy level. Now, the cotton ball diet is considered to be an eating disorder.

Eating cotton balls — or anything that's not actually food — has the ability to greatly harm your body. So stick to food, ok? If anyone says to dip any household product in juice and swallow it, don't give them the time of day!

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