Why Are Fad Diets So Popular?
With obesity predicted to affect over fifty percent of the population in the next fifty years, the reign of ‘fad diets’ and ‘
fast weight loss progammes’ has increased in popularity. From the cabbage soup diet to the Quantum Wellness to the 48 Hour Miracle diet, all of these dietary fads all claim to help you lose weight fast and experience increased metabolic activity.
Fad Diets - Are they real?
On occasion… Aside from helping you to achieve fast weight loss, most obese patients have reported minute weight loss of just 1-4 lbs before hitting a plateau.
More disappointingly, once dieters stopped using these said meals they immediately regained all excess lbs lost.
Fad Diets - But are they safe?
Whilst celebrity diets can help you to witness quick weight losses, many are not safe for the foreseeable future.
Depriving your body of key nutrients needed to ensure your body is working at optimum capacity, many involve reducing your calorie intake to less than 1,000 calories a day– over 50% your allowance.
Accompanied by heavy sessions in the gym and grueling calorie checking, many of these said dietary fads do run the danger of causing you to feel quezy, fatigued, unable to think straight and more worryingly unable to function properly - None of which are dangerous for your health.
Are they easy to spot?
Easier than you imagine...Promoting a ‘quick fix’ solution to your body concerns, you can often spot a fad diet by their:
• Too good to be true claims
• Minimal of clinical studies
• Deletion of one if not more of the five food groups
• Recommendations from studies without reviews from other researchers
When choosing a diet or dietary pill, it is always important to thoroughly research their studies first before adding them into your eating habits. If there is no medical evidence that they can achieve safe weight loss results, then they are too good to be true.
