Do You Know How To Spot A Fad Diet?
With the obesity epidemic expected to affect 50% of the worlds population, the reign of ‘dietary fads’ and ‘diet pills that work fast’ has escalated to epic proportions. From the cabbage diet to the Zone Diet to the Factor 5 diet, all of these diet fads all claim to quicken weight loss and experience increased vitality.
Are they real?
On occasion… Aside from helping you to experience quickwater weight loss, the vast majority of slimmer’s have claimed small weight loss of just 1-4lbs before plateauing after 2 weeks.
More disconcertingly, once slimmers stopped using these fad meals they soon regained all excess lbs lost.
What are the long term health risks of these fads?
Whilst these can help you to experience immediate weight losses, many are not safe for long term use…
Preventing your body from receivingnutrients required to ensure your organs is receive the energy they need to work efficiently, many involve cutting your calorie content to less than 1,000 calories a day– over half your recommended intake.
Accompanied by extreme workouts and unrelenting calorie checking, celebrity diets run the health risk of making you feel weak, fatigued, unable to think straight and more worryingly unable to function properly – None of which are dangerous for your health.
How can you spot a Fad diet?
Proclaiming to offer you a fast solution to your weight loss concerns, you can easily recognise a celebrity diet by their:
• Too good to be true claims
• Minimal of clinical studies
• Deletionof one if not more of the five food groups
• Recommendations from trials without reviews from other researchers
When choosing a diet or herbal supplement, it is always important to thoroughly research their studies first before adding them into your eating habits. If there is no proofthat they can promote quality weight loss, then they are too good to be true.
