Fad DietsFad diets are naturally all the rage (or they’d have a different name, wouldn’t they?). They are routinely endorsed by celebrities and by medical practitioners. We’d love to live like celebrities and we are determined to believe the word of doctors. While any number of reputable and/or well known people can choose to endorse a product or service, the proof is in whether it can work for you. You can increase the possibility of choosing a diet that works for you by becoming as informed as possible before making decisions related to your health. Effects of fad diets can go 3 or 4 ways. They may be absolutely useless and a waste of time and money. They may have some beneficial effects. They may have some harmful effects. They may really work. Those that work long term are those that help you to retrain your eating and exercise habits to be fit and healthy for life. Here is a list of fad diets for your information. The Atkins Diet.The Atkins Diet revolution has been around for some time now. This leader of popular fad diets is an extremely low carbohydrate diet advocating high consumption of protein and fat.
The Scarsdale Diet.
The Scarsdale Diet has strict rules of food combinations. It is extremely low calorie. As low as 850 calories per day. The Scarsdale Diet website recommends that you do not stay on the diet for more than 14 days straight. The South Beach Diet.The South Beach Diet is a 3 phase diet, with the first phase limiting carbs, while placing emphasis on lean meat and unsaturated fats. It is claimed that in this phase dieters can lose 4-6 kilograms over the first 2 weeks. Phase 2 reintroduces some carbs "banned" in phase 1. Phase 3 is maintenance for life diet. The Zone Diet.Zone Diets promote a mixture of low-fat protein, complex carbs and unsaturated fats each at a moderate daily intake. The Zone Diet meals consist of breakfast, lunch and dinner plus low fat snacks between meals to prevent food cravings. The Grapefruit Diet.You are instructed to eat 1/2 a grapefruit at the beginning of every one of your meals and then you will lose fat - or not. The Cabbage Soup Diet.The Cabbage Soup Diet is one for people with no close friends sharing a personal space for any length of time. It is a 7day "kick start" (kick fart?)diet in which the hapless dieter is given a different food group or two to stuff their faces with on a different day of the week, washed down with cabbage soup. Effects of fad diets? Well, something really stinks with this one. Liquid Diet.Protein shakes, clear soups and herbal teas are routine meals in a liquid diet. A totally liquid diet can be a serious and severe weight loss diet. Under strict medical supervision, a liquid diet can allow clinically and morbidly obese people to drop weight enough to have surgery or to support patients with serious medical conditions. In theory, you could live on 3 or 4 protein shakes a day, but it is hardly a conceivable long term lifestyle diet option. Detox Cleansing Diet.There is many a detox cleansing diet out there, with varying degrees of severity. The idea of a detox cleansing diet is to rapidly clean out the build up in the body of toxic chemicals incorporated in the foods we eat day to day.A short term diet of some fruits and vegetables in solid and liquid forms is common in detox cleansing diets. Fat Loss 4 IdiotsThe Fat Loss 4 Idiots Diet allows you 4 meals a day. It relies on a concept called calorie shifting where you keep your body "on the hop" regarding how many calories of what type it gets at each meal each day.I have written a candid review of the Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet program. Burn the Fat Feed the MuscleThis is not strictly a fad diet. Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle is a complete diet and exercise program for a healthy life. Very detailed information is given on protein, carbs and fat ratios for your individual body type, be that mesomorph, ectomorph or endomorph.YOu can read more about the fat burning diet in my review of Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle. Return to Lose Fat Get Fit from Fad Diets You can lose fat. Get fit with a sensible diet plan for losing weight with practical and simple weight loss tips. Lose weight and never be fat again. Go to Diet Programs The number and type of diet programs available can be confusing. You must choose a weight loss program to lose body fat, not one that just drops kilos.
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