Popular Dietary Practices

According to the Oxford dictionary the world "vegetarian" is derived irregularly from 'veget-able' plus 'arian'. People started to use the word after the first Vegetarian Society was founded (1847).

Vegetarian Society in Great Britain.

Raw foodism
It is a dietary practice that allows only raw, uncooked food. Raw foodists believe that people have been eating only raw food for millions of years and were absolutely fine.

The founder of raw foodism, an American priest Sylvester Graham

Breatharianism
Breatharianists eat so called "prana", cosmic energy. The source of prana is sunlight.