It is not surprising that many people wonder why fad diets are bad when they seem to get results. You will find many sites on the internet claiming significant weight loss in just a few days.
Other fad diets are not so obviously crash diets with outrageous claims, but they are over-hyped diet plans that tend to be fashionable for a while and usually make a lot of money for the inventor in associated product sales. In the best cases these are good nutrition plans which will help you lose weight, but which you could probably have gotten for free from your doctor. In the worst cases they will prove so difficult to follow that you will give up after a week.
The bad of fad diets
Diets that promise easy and quick weight loss are usually based on eating more of one food type and none of another. They may suggest you take supplements but many supplements are not absorbed by the body unless they are taken along with the foods that the diet has banned.
Fad diets are over-restrictive and often boring. You will then start to crave food constantly and will break the diet.
Most fad diets do not follow recommendations of the American Heart Association and similar bodies for fat levels in the diet. Often the diet will recommend high fat foods and low carbs which if taken long term, could result in heart disease. The promoters may tell you that the diet is only intended to be followed for a short time.
- Many fad diets do not help you incorporate enough servings of fruits and vegetables in your weight loss program or give you the variety of foods that your body needs.
Quick weight loss diets are just a temporary solution and do not help you make permanent changes to your eating habits. Fad diets encourage yo-yo diet-binge cycles of fast weight loss and equally fast weight gain.
Other fad diets are not so obviously crash diets with outrageous claims, but they are over-hyped diet plans that tend to be fashionable for a while and usually make a lot of money for the inventor in associated product sales. Diets that promise easy and quick weight loss are usually based on eating more of one food type and none of another. Most fad diets do not follow recommendations of the American Heart Association and similar bodies for fat levels in the diet. Quick weight loss diets are just a temporary solution and do not help you make permanent changes to your eating habits. Fad diets encourage yo-yo diet-binge cycles of fast weight loss and equally fast weight gain.
Whatever the publicity materials may say, these diets will not help you in the long term. The best way to sustain weight loss is to eat a healthy and varied diet, do not overeat, exercise regularly and avoid fad diets.
