Talk:Cotton ball diet

Is there any reason to think this is a real thing?
The article contains various sources talking about this alleged 'diet', but it's not clear from any of them if anyone actually does it in real life, beyond a few videos on YouTube. Should the article note that this may just be a moral panic/urban legend? Robofish (talk) 00:51, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
 * The BDA seriously considers it a real practice and actively warns against it. Some fad diets may be urban myths such as the tapeworms diet, and reliable historical sources indeed do mention this likely hypothesis, but I have read no such thing about the cotton ball diet. I bet we can find cases reported in the medical literature. --Signimu (talk) 22:08, 29 October 2019 (UTC)