Fad Diets

The phrase "fad diets" typically refers to diets that promote a restricted eating-plan which is unhealthy and/or lacking in sufficient calories. Certain liquid-only diets (fasts) are promoted as healthful diets but in reality are merely fad diets. Common examples of fad diets include, the Cabbage Soup Diet and the Grapefruit Diet.

Quick weight loss diets, now more than ever, seem to be flooding over the population. Everyone wants to lose 15 pounds in two weeks and not have to do any work to get the pounds off. There are many new fads that are available to try out, but do they work?

An article in “Good Housekeeping,” by Maura Rhodes, called “America’s Top 6 Fad Diets,” seemed to bring up some good points about these diets. Fad diets all work on drastic calorie cutting. They deprive your body of essential nutrients and cause the body’s metabolism to slow down.

Diets such as the Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution and The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet are high protein diets. This diet requires you to eat all the protein you want, meat, fish, eggs, cheese, you just are restricted from pastas, breads, and anything with refined sugar. This low carbohydrate diet could seem good at first but according to the article by Maura Rhodes, these diets are loaded with saturated fat and cholesterol, which can increase the risk of heart disease.

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