Ways To Avoid Fad Diets
Fad diets are diets that involve rapid weight loss, but are only to be followed for a short period of time. The term has also come to mean any diet that explodes into national or international fame, only to plummet into obscurity. Some of these fad diets include the cabbage soup diet, the Atkins diet, and the cookie diet.
Fad diets are a subcategory of food fads. This refers to any form of food that becomes popular for a short period of time. Common aspects of these fads include:
- The food is attributed with miraculous powers.
- Some foods must be avoided because they have equally amazing powers, but that do bad things.
As an example of these elements of fad diets in the diet, take the Atkins diet. Carbohydrates are avoided like the plague, because a carbohydrate low diet can do amazing things for your body. Carbohydrates take on both of the common elements in that removing carbohydrates from the diet creates a near magical metabolic state in which fat is burned at an incredible rate. Although it is a long-term diet, it did have short phases during which carbohydrate cutting was taken to the extreme. However, many people are able to continue the Atkins diet for years.
As with many fad diets Atkins rose quickly and fell just as quickly. For a number of years anyone who thought of dieting thought about the Atkins diet . People from Hollywood actors to politicians were all on the Atkins diet. But after the death of Dr. Atkins, the diet became much less of a household word.
Fad diets can be unhealthy. The Subway diet made popular in television commercials wasn’t exempt. It revolves around the extreme weight loss case of Jared who ate Subway sandwiches and baked chips to lose over 250 pounds in the span of a single year. But Jared had made a radical shift in his caloric habits. Doctors agree that weight loss on that scale isn’t healthy. Even so in moderation the Subway diet can work, particularly when combined with exercise — Jared walked 6 miles a day.
Approach fad diets with caution. A long-term eating strategy combined with moderate exercise is usually the better bet.
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