Quick! There's Still Time to Try the Hottest Diets of 2012

In 2012, Americans wanted a body like Michael Phelps, one of the Victoria's Secret models, or an ICU patient. Go figure.

By Amy O'Connor
Updated January 30, 2017


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That is, if you want to down a 12,000 calorie breakfast on the relentlessly-searched Michael Phelps Diet, or have deluded yourself that eating like Adriana Lima or Miranda Kerr will get you ready for the Victoria's Secret cat walk (wouldn't it be easier to try this?).

How'd we get this list? These 2012 diet plans are the searches that had the highest amount of traffic in 2012 as compared to 2011 on google.

Some are free, some are not, and some are squarely "idiotic" according to health experts, like the Feeding Tube Diet, which puts brides-to-be on liquid calories via a stent.

Here's the list:

  1. Michael Phelps diet

  2. Beyond diet

  3. Raspberry Ketone diet

  4. Pink Method diet

  5. Adriana Lima diet

  6. Miranda Kerr diet

  7. NV Diet Pill

  8. Feeding tube diet

  9. Juicing diet

  10. Marissa Miller diet