What are fad diets?
Weight loss passionate people try many times diets that are not endorsed by medical or scientific studies. However, in some cases, such diets give results, which makes them so popular. For example, the grapefruit diet, so famous during the 1970s has no scientific base, but some chubby guys and girls managed to get rid of extra pounds by simply eating grapefruits at each meal. This was in their opinion much better than trying to seek out for weight loss tips that work, or running like crazy every day without losing their breath, or following other weight loss tips. Too bad for them! But we can understand that not everybody would be able to follow weight loss top tips which require a lot of discipline, effort and a longer time until seeing any notable results.
Diets like this one, not supported by the medical world, were given the name fad diets.
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Another star on the fad diets list is the grapefruit diet. Known from the early 1930s, this diet managed to preserve a huge popularity due to the fact that you are allowed to eat as much as you want, provided that you end all meals with a half of grapefruit. The mechanism of action was thought to be the fat-burning proprieties of an enzyme contained in the fruit. This fact was never proven by scientists, so probably this diet works only because it helps the body eliminate fluids, thus having a reversible effect on the body weight.
Last but not least, fad diets also count the Atkins diet, the 3 days diet or the South Beach diet. All famous, tried by millions of fast men and women, these diets managed to get many persons ill and even fatter, due to the yo-yo effect. This yo-yo effect appears when the body weight fluctuates due to the severe short-term diets followed by overeating periods. This is definitely not a healthy way of getting rid of the extra pounds.
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Did you know how many ways of getting rid of some body weight are there? But have you any idea how many of them are healthy and long-term oriented? If you didn't know, please find out that sometimes, it is possible that one suffers from health disorders causing weight loss, so they might even want to gain some weight.
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- aprilkerr aprilkerr Jul 30, 2008 @ 4:48 am
- I find it amazing the lengths people will go to in order to lose weight. Just eat healthy.
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- Simonne Simonne Jul 18, 2008 @ 3:38 am
- I find fad diets being a bit too dangerous for my taste. I'd go for nutritionist advice before trying to lose weight that way.
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- DeMerchant DeMerchant Jul 16, 2008 @ 12:34 pm
- I'm always skeptical of how well diets like these work... I'll take hard work through diet and exercise myself
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