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.