How To Spot Fad Diets
With obesity predicted to affect more than 50 percent of the population by 2050, the age of ‘celebrity diets’ and ‘lose weight quick progammes’ has escalated to epic proportions. From the cabbage soup dietto the Hollywood 24 to the 48 Hour Miracle diet, each of these dietary programmesall claim to help you lose weight fast and experience increased metabolic activity.
Can they help you to lose weight?
Unfortunately not… Apart from helping you to witness fast water weight loss of 1-2lbs, the vast majority of obese patients have revealed little weight losses of just 1-4lbs before hitting a plateau.
More worryingly, once they stopped following these said diets they immediately regained all excess lbs lost.
Are they risk-free?
Whilst manydietary fads can help you to witness instant weight losses, most are not safe for the foreseeable future
Preventing your body from receivingessential nutrients required to ensure your metabolism is working at maximum levels, many involve reducing your calorie intake to below 1,000 calories a day – if not less – over 50% your recommended daily allowance.
Supported by heavy sessions in the gym and gruelling calorie checking, most of these diets run the danger of leaving you feeling weak, tired, unable to think straight and more worryingly prevent your body from working properly – All 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 ‘quick fix’ solution to your weight loss issues, you can often spot a celebrity diet by their:
• Too good to be true claims
• Minimal of clinical studies
• Elimination of one if not more of the five daily food groups
• Recommendations from trials without reviews from other researchers
When choosing a diet or weight loss supplement, it is essential to thoroughly analyse their effects first before adding them into your diet. If there is no medical evidencethat they can achieve safe weight loss, then they probably don’t work.