What is a fad diet? Fad diets can be best described as a quick weight loss is often only popular for a short period of time. Fad diets can range from methodologies as deeply entrenched as Atkins and the Zone diet or as unsustainable as the diet of cabbage soup diet or the Special K Challenge.
First, we must understand that weight loss claims made by proponents of these diets are not only fleeting but unhealthy as well. Diets like the diet of cabbage soup and grapefruit diet is, in the case of the diet of cabbage soup, make flatulent and, in both cases, only to regain the weight immediately.
Fad diets often overemphasized one food or type of food. For example, a system that I find absurd is the Special K Challenge that advocates replacing two of their three meals with all the flavor of Special K cereal with 2/3 cup skim milk usually results in a £ 5 weight loss after two weeks. The plan even advocates snacks consisting of Special K bars or fruits and vegetables. Surprisingly, there is virtually no reliable source of protein included in this plan. While scanning the Special K website, research is used to make these bold statements such as sound waves. They argue that "the feeding" Kellogg worked closely with the "top universities" in order to reach its crazy conclusion. To me, it means a little more than a clever marketing ploy directed by the Kellogg Corporation. Plans because they do not take into account that people who are really committed to losing weight also work several days a week, so it would be a lack of calories needed to properly refuel the body. Basically, nutritional problems arise when the so-called "super" becomes the focal point of a diet.
Another scheme that falls into the category of super is the diet of cabbage soup. Just as well as other plans are supposedly unadorned hospitals. Schemes like the diet of cabbage soup were allegedly used by patients in the week before undergoing cardiac surgery. At the end of the week, after eating only cabbage soup, fruits and vegetables, which are supposed to lose anywhere between 10-17 pounds. Unfortunately, we can not maintain a diet so restricted for a long time without feeling the negative effects of such a poor diet, such as vitamin deficiencies and toxic effects of cannibalized muscle tissue period.
Moreover, this huge weight loss can be maintained once normal eating habits resumed since water constitutes a large percentage of the lost ground, and to make matters worse, these plans do not have a plan on how to reduce calories gradually and safely without compromising their own health. No matter what the food is, none should be considered a panacea. All plans must be balanced so that at best no adverse effects occur.
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