Do You Know How To Spot A Fad Diet?
With the obesity epidemic believed to affect more than fifty percent of the planets population, the reign of ‘celebrity diets’ and ‘fast weight loss schemes’ has increased in popularity. From the cabbage diet to the Zone Diet to the 7 day Elimination diet, all of these celebrity diets all claim to quicken weight loss and experience increased rejuvenation.
Are they real?
No… Aside from helping you to witness immediate water weight loss of 1-2lbs, the vast majority of dieters have experienced minimal weight loss reduction of just 1-4lbs before plateauing after a few weeks.
More worryingly, once slimmers stopped using these celebrity fad meals they quickly regained all the weight they lost.
But are they safe?
Whilst it is true that some of the top celebrity can help you to experience fast weight losses, almost all of them cannot be used for more than a week
Depriving your body of nutrients needed to ensure your body is recieve the nutrients they need to work properly, many involve cutting your calorie content to below 1,000 calories a day – if not less – over half your recommended intake.
Supported by countless hours in the gym and unrelenting calorie checking, many of these said dietary fads do run the complication of making you feel queasy, fatigued, unable to focus and more worryingly unable to function properly – None of which are good for your long term health and ultimately your future ability to lose weight.
How can you spot them?
Easier than you imagine…Proclaiming to offer you a immediate solution to your weight loss issues, you can easily recognize a fad diet by their:
• Too good to be true claims
• Minimal of clinical case studies
• Removal of one or more of the five recommended food groups
• Recommendations from trials without reviews from other researchers
When choosing a diet or dietary pill, it is always important to deeply analyze their effects first before adding them into your eating habits. If there is no medical evidence that they can produce real and credible weight loss results, then more often than not they are too good to be true.