Lots of people have their own personal diet plans, and nutritionists don't always agree on which one is best. Nutritionists do agree that everything on this list is a bad idea, but some outstanding individuals have managed to damn nature and logic enough to survive on some seemingly fatal meal regimens. And by that we mean ...

8 Henry Ford Ate Weeds from His Yard

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Henry Ford, like a lot of innovative minds, had an eccentric side. This may explain how he managed to combine adamant pacifism with being a part-time anti-Semitic dick with Nazi sympathies.

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"Those Nazis, they've got a real handle on this 'peace' thing."

Things only got weirder at dinner time ...

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The Diet:

Weeds.

Although one of the wealthiest men of his time, Henry Ford could not have been less interested in food. Having made his living designing cars, he came to see the human digestive system as a kind of combustion engine that just needed fuel, and as far as he was concerned, that fuel was all around him.

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Following that logic, he decided there was no point visiting the grocery store when his garden was full of weeds that were just sitting there being useless.

Ford was a good friend of George Washington Carver, the famous ex-slave botanist, who knew the nutrition that many of these misfit plants offered if only one had the stomach and lack of dignity. Henry Ford was that man, and so Carver and Ford took to regularly eating sandwiches stuffed with random weeds, freshly plucked straight from the ground and seasoned with mustard.