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Fad diets usually refer to unconventional eating patterns promoting short-term weight loss, usually with no concern for long-term weight control. These diets become quickly popular and just as quickly lose appeal. Fad diets generally disregard or refute what is known about the basic association between dietary patterns and human health. Extreme fad diets may lack energy, protein, vitamins and minerals essential for growing children. How to Spot a Fad Diet Does the food plan make any of the following Claims or Statements? 1. Recommends a quick fix solution. 2. Sounds too good to be true. 3. Recommendations based on a single study. 4. Recommendations that ignore the differences between people. 5. Requires you buy a product or the program will not work. 6. Eliminates one or more of the food groups. 7. Draws simple conclusions from a complex study. 8. Dramatic results questioned by established scientific communities (Academy DA, AMA, NIH, etc..)
HCG: Dangerous to Dieters
This is an Example of a Fad Diet and it can Kill You! The Tapeworm Diet
Fad diets usually refer to unconventional eating patterns promoting short-term weight loss, usually with no concern for long-term weight control. These diets become quickly popular and just as quickly lose appeal. Fad diets generally disregard or refute what is known about the basic association between dietary patterns and human health. Extreme fad diets may lack energy, protein, vitamins and minerals essential for growing children.
How to Spot a Fad Diet
Does the food plan make any of the following Claims or Statements? 1. Recommends a quick fix solution. 2. Sounds too good to be true. 3. Recommendations based on a single study. 4. Recommendations that ignore the differences between people. 5. Requires you buy a product or the program will not work. 6. Eliminates one or more of the food groups. 7. Draws simple conclusions from a complex study. 8. Dramatic results questioned by established scientific communities (ADA, AMA, NIH, etc..)
This is an Example of a Fad Diet and it can Kill You! The Tapeworm Diet
Hollywood's Craziest Diets
These recommendations are NOT FAD DIETS. The books represent healthy food plans and lifelong strategies to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
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