Can Fad Diets Really Work?

What are Fad diets?

With obesity predicted to affect more than 50 percent of the population by 2050, the reign of ‘celebrity diets’ and ‘quick fix weight loss schemes’ has become more popular than ever before. From the cabbage diet to the Zone Diet to the 48 Hour Miracle diet, each of these celebrity fads all claim to help you lose weight fast and increased rejuvenation.

Can they help you to lose fat?

On occasion… Aside from allowing you to achieve immediate water weight loss, ninety percent of slimmers have experienced minute weight losses of just 1-2lbs before plateauing after three weeks.

More disconcertingly, once dieters stopped using these fad diets they immediately regained all the weight they lost.

Are they safe?

Whilst many celebrity fads can help you to witness quick weight loss, almost all of them cannot be used for the long term

Limiting the amount of essential nutrients required to ensure your organs is working at optimum capacity, many involve lowering your calorie content to less than 1,000 calories a day– more than half your allowance.

Supported by extreme workouts and unrelenting calorie counting, celebrity diets run the danger of causing you to feel weak, fatiqued, unable to focus and more worryingly prevent your body from working efficiently – 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 immediate solution to your body concerns, you can easily recognise a dietary fads by their:
• They are too good to be true claims
• Lack of clinical studies
• Deletion of one or more of the five food groups
• Recommendations from trials without reviews from other researchers

When picking a dietary fad or dietary pill, it is imperative to deeply analyse their studies first before adding them into your diet. If there is no medical evidence that they can produce real and credible weight loss, then they probably don’t work.

How To Burn 500 Calories Doing Normal Things

Ok, so we know burning calories and help us lose weight. However, finding the time to do this can be hard, so we have decided to put together a list of ways you can burn up 500 calories doing everyday/normal things. Burning up 500 calories a day = 3500 a week, which = 1lb a week weight lose. Now you might think that not so much, but if you add a few of these tasks togther you could easily double this total. Additionally you can go further by reducing your calorie intake, by following a Well Balanced Diet.

Burn 500 Calories In Minutes

• 164 mins making presentations
• 210 mins on the phone (standing)
• 232 mins typing
• 178 mins photocopying
• 178 mins filing
• 272 mins attending meetings
• 152 mins foreplay
• 400 mins hugging
• 370 mins kissing
• 165 mins vigorous sex
• 270 mins in the bath
• 235 mins in the shower
• 160 mins cooking
• 375 mins brushing your teeth
• 205 mins changing light bulbs
• 190 mins washing clothes
• 205 mins dressing
• 180 mins ironing
• 162 mins styling your hair
• 115 mins bathing the dog
• 120 mins plastering
• 100 mins refereeing the kids’ footie
• 136 mins walking the dog
• 90 mins playing golf
• 205 mins driving a golf buggy
• 115 mins carrying clubs
• 135 mins at the driving range
• 270 mins watching live sporting event
• 150 mins cutting the hedge with electric sheers
• 100 mins cutting the hedge with manual sheers
• 80 mins creosoting the fence
• 205 mins hanging clothes on the line
• 70 mins chopping wood
• 52 mins sawing wood
• 90 mins mowing the lawn
• 164 mins barbecuing
• 205 mins eating it