Can You Spot A Fad Diet?

With obesity expected to affect more than 50 percent of the population by 2050, the reign of ‘dietary fads’ and ‘diet pills that work fast’ has risen in popularity. From the cabbage soup dietto the Hollywood 24 to the 48 Hour Miracle diet, all of these dietary programmes all claim to quicken weight loss and experience increased rejuvenation.

Are they real?

No… Aside from helping you to witness instant water weight loss, 90% of obese patients have revealed minimal weight loss reduction of just 1-2lbs before hitting a plateau.

More worryingly, once they stopped eating these dietary fad diets they quickly regained all the weight they lost.

Can they harm your health?

Whilst many dietary fads can help you to experience quick weight losses, most are not good for the foreseeable future

Preventing your body from receivingnutrients required to ensure your body is working at optimal levels, many involve reducing your calorie content to below 1,000 calories a day – if not less – more than half your recommended daily allowance.

Supported by heavy sessions in the gym and unrelenting calorie counting, many of these said dietary fads do run the risk of causing you to feel quezy, tired, unable to think straight and more worryingly prevent your body from working efficiently – All of which are

How can you recognise a fad diet?

Fad diets are quite easy to spot.Promoting a immediate solution to your weight loss concerns, you can often tell a dietary fads by their:

• Too good to be true claims
• Lack of clinical trials
• Elimination of one if not more of the five daily food groups
• Recommendations from trials without reviews from other researchers

When picking a dietary fad or slimming pill, it is always important to thoroughly study their studies first before adding them into your diet. If there is no proofthat they can produce real and credible health benefits, then they are properly fake.

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