The Cotton Ball Diet: This Dangerous Trend Has Horrible Side Effects

The newest diet fad out there is called the cotton ball diet, which consists of, you guessed it, eating cotton balls. The crazy logic behind this diet is that if you eat cotton balls before a meal, or exclusively eat cotton balls, then they will fill up your stomach and give the illusion of being full.

The irony of this diet is that most "cotton" balls are not cotton at all, but a blend of polyester fibers and a ton of chemicals. So basically, unless you are eating some kind of organic cotton ball, you are just eating a bunch of chemicals that look like cotton.

One major concern that doctors have with the cotton ball diet is that if it goes on unchecked long enough, the person using the diet could develop severe blockages in their digestion system.

Experts think that they cotton ball diet caught on because it seemed like "get rich quick" scheme for young girls to lose weight rapidly. Many of the YouTube videos devoted to the cotton ball diet are created by girls between the ages of 9 and 16 who want to be skinnier.

Lynn Grege, the CEO of National Eating Disorder Association, said, "When we talk about something like this we certainly aren't talking about health anymore. We're talking about weight and size and certainly something that is potentially very, very dangerous."

Has anyone you know tried the cotton ball diet? What do you think about it? Let us know in the comments about your opinions of the cotton ball diet.