Tips And Hints About Fad Diets
A diet that is written only to be followed for a short time is called categorized as one of the fad diets. Fad diets are also diets that quickly become wildly popular, last for a short time, then become a footnote in popular culture. The Hollywood diet, the Atkins diet, and Jenny Craig are just three examples.
Fad diets are sometimes known as food fad-ism. This refers to any form of food that becomes popular for a short period of time. These all have two things in common:
- The food is attributed with miraculous powers.
- Many other foods are completely eliminated from the diet, because they are thought to have negative properties.
One of these fad diets that has these elements is the Atkins diet. In Atkins carbohydrates must be avoided because of their negative characteristics. 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. This diet had a number of short periods of extreme carbohydrate avoidance, followed by long periods of sustainable low carbohydrate eating. But Dr. Atkins did intend that people could eat this way for the rest of their lives.
The Atkins diet was also one of these fad diets in that huge popularity was fairly short-lived. For a number of years anyone who thought of dieting thought about the Atkins diet . Entertainment magazines were full of movie stars and music stars and sports stars who claimed amazing weight loss and fitness all due to the Atkins diet. But after the death of Dr. Atkins, the diet became much less of a household word.
Many fad diets can be quite dangerous. Even a seemingly healthy diet like the Subway diet could be dangerous. At its center was a young man named Jared who had lost hundreds of pounds in only a year by eating Subway sandwiches. Jared’s diet was severe — going down to 900 calories a day from over 10,000. 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.
Beware of fad diets. A long-term eating strategy combined with moderate exercise is usually the better bet.
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