Craig Pepin-Donat
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 It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to fad diets. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations.
Health.com
Compares most of the popular diets on the market.
Just the Weigh You Are: How to Be Fit and Healthy, Whatever Your Size
Linda Konner and Steven Jonas ISBN: 0395935237
Amazon Review: Steven Jonas, M.D., and fitness journalist Linda Konner assert that you can get fit and healthy whatever your size. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Over the years, fad diets have identified particular foods or types of food as a leading cause of weight gain. In the 1990s, it was fat. Today, carbohydrates are the problem. There have also been claims that grapefruit, celery and other foods cause the body to burn additional calories. What each of these concepts has in common is the idea that calories are somehow less important than other factors in losing weight.
Reality: Cutting calories is the key to losing weight. It doesn't matter whether the calories come from fat, protein or carbohydrates. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 That's why fad diets, diet pills, exotic supplements, and weight loss surgery are so popular. But these methods can take a toll: on your energy levels, your appearance, your ability to stay trim and fit as well as your future health. We think the SuperFoodsRx Diet is a better way and you'll see immediate results in the mirror. Tour skin doesn't lie. Your glowing, smoother, skin will show you like nothing else can that as your clothes get looser and your energy levels increase and your moods stabilize, your body is enjoying its best health ever. |
| This is akin to what can happen when you try unhealthy fad diets to lose weight: You may get short-term results but in the end you'll be taking a toll on your "motor" that will be hard to recover from.
To place the weight-loss discussion in context, we should recognize that science is an evolving process and the research data on particular nutrients and their effect on weight are, in large part, preliminary. We would love to be able to tell you that if you eat salmon and spinach for a week you'll lose 10 pounds. But that's just not the case. |
Marshall Editions
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 White foods should be avoided, as should fad diets, such as liquid diets or diet pills, as they do not tend to promote sustainable weight loss.
Exercise: Try to find an exercise activity to incorporate into your daily routine that is both physically achievable and enjoyable. It is important to accumulate 30 minutes of aerobic exercise a day. This may be in the form of a rapid walk or a comparable bike ride, swim, or session on the cross trainer. In addition, you should lift weights three times a week to lose fat. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 There are no silly and unscientific fad diets in our program, just an innovative, easy-to-follow nutrition plan that minimizes food-derived glycotoxins without causing feelings of deprivation and an exercise program that is unbelievably brief. This special approach is described in chapters 5, 6, and 7 to help you with this important goal.)
?Incorporate nutritional supplements scientifically shown to help optimize cardiovascular health (see chapter 8).
?If you smoke, quit. (Don't despair—it takes, on average, at least seven tries to eventually stop smoking! |
Jack Challem
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 Years ago, fad diets recommended vinegar and grapefruit to help people lose weight. At the time, there wasn't any scientific evidence that they worked. Now there's credible research showing that vinegar, grapefruit, and a few other foods can improve blood sugar, insulin, and weight.
Vinegar
People with impaired glucose tolerance often crave foods made with vinegar, such as dill pickles, certain types of gravies, and vinaigrette salad dressings. It's almost as if their bodies are begging for foods to help regulate their blood-sugar levels. |
| I turned my life around without taking drugs or following fad diets. Granted, I didn't accomplish all this overnight, but if I can make these changes, so can you.
For years I had taken various vitamin supplements, but I paid little attention to what I was eating. By the mid-1990s, I was in denial of having a cluster of prediabetic symptoms (insulin resistance, belly fat, increasing blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol and triglycerides). My intraocular eye pressure, a risk factor for glaucoma, was also elevated at 21 and 22 mgHg. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| The bottom line is that any diet that reduces carbohydrates and sodium dramatically will have excellent short-term results, which is what most fad diets are all about. Long-term results are about a sustained reduction of body fat and a slow and steady increase in lean muscle tissue. That does not happen after a four- to six-week diet.
The Protein Diet
IVIost diets that are high in protein will also dramatically increase your fat consumption, and I am not a fan of any diet built on fat. |
| I did not stop eating carbohydrates unlike the "rule" of many fad diets that try to trick people into thinking it is the solution to weight loss. One of the best habits I got into was eating salads almost every night before my meal or as my meal. I stopped eating once I started to feel full instead of eating for taste. I still ordered takeout from time to time, but I kept away from the deep-fried choices and anything laden with fat and excess calories. The most important change was in the size of my portions. |
| I wanted to demonstrate how results can be obtained without following any kind of fad diets or gimmicky fitness programs, or by taking any magic pills or formulas. I have also outlined some basic guidelines that you can follow to help you down the path of achieving your own health and fitness goals. These lifestyle changes are simple, but they are not easy
Before-and-After Experiment because they require work with no shortcuts, coupled with an unwavering desire to improve. |
| Unlike fad diets, the Rice Diet Program is a dieta, a word that comes from ancient Greek, meaning 'way of life.' Even though "diet" is in the name, it is really more of a lifestyle program. It requires fairly serious caloric and sodium reductions, especially in the first phase of the program, which does put it in the diet category.
Created by Dr. Walter Kempner, the Rice Diet Program is in stark contrast to current low-carb diets. |
| Experienced bodybuilders know better than anyone how to adjust their food intake to attain the best possible physique for competition, which is relevant to this chapter because a lot of these principles are used in many fad diets to achieve similar short-term results.
During the first stages of the diet, there are fewer dietary restrictions when most bodybuilders are bulking up, other than eating clean foods high in protein to help with the muscle building process. At this stage, good quality carbs are also needed, since they are the best source of energy for the body during intense training. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Those who choose fad diets over such a lifestyle can count on gaining back their lost weight and more. Almost 95 percent of all dieters regain their lost weight within a year and have to diet all over again.
Q Dieting may be dangerous for people older than sixty, as malnutrition may result. Exercise if you want to lose weight, don't stop eating.
Q fad diets may produce some results, but the fact is that not only can these diets be unhealthy (particularly if you jump from one diet to the next), but once you go off the diet, the weight often returns—along with some added pounds. |
Elaine Magee
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 How could a country so obsessed with plastic surgery and being thin, spending billions a year on fad diets and dieting products, get itself in this mess?
Well, I've got my theories. First of all, when it comes to food variety and taste, the United States has it made. Both of these factors stimulate food intake. We may have started as the land of opportunity, but we are now the land of huge portions. Our extralarge servings and the fact that we eat out more often than ever are two more factors that encourage overeating in America. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 You'll recall that almost all fad diets talk about losing x amount of weight in six to eight weeks. Remember also that almost all of us can follow a regimen based on control for about six weeks, until our genetic programming yanks away control. Were you to resume eating "white" and "beige" foods as well as the small portions of "brown" foods and fruit you have probably reintroduced, you would restart the "Store Fat for Winter" program and suddenly be swimming upstream against the flow of your genetic program. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 REID, THE TAO OFSEX, HEALTH, AND LONGEVITY
Let us state that these are not passing fad diets: the Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program, the Culture of Life anti-diabetogenic diet (an organic, plant-source-only, and 80-100 percent live-food diet).
The history of eating a diet of plant foods, of abstaining from meat eating, of fasting and drinking plant juices, and using herbs to heal goes back possibly further than recorded history itself. Hippocrates, the father of medicine (460-357 BC) said, "He who does not know food, how can he understand the diseases of man? |
Elaine Magee
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| We have to stop the fad diets immediately and make changes in our eating and exercise habits that will serve us well for the rest of our lives. It's not a sexy message, I know, but it's the truth.
Go for whole grains. More whole grains may lead to less VAT fat (visceral adipose tissue). This is the type of abdominal fat that's most dangerous to health, even in teens. Within the whole grains category, some research on oats has shown they slow the emptying of the stomach into the small intestine and may help you feel fuller longer.
Load up on fruits and vegetables. |
John Robbins
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 My problem is with fad diets that make great promises, and end up causing great harm.
Fad diets typically promise a "quick fix," or to "melt fat in just two weeks." They ignore the reality that sustained health comes from making gradual, long-term, balanced adjustments to diet and overall lifestyle. fad diets distract people from the discipline and joy of creating a genuinely healthy and empowering way of eating.
Many high-fat, high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets have come and gone from the American scene in the last few decades. Some have been very popular. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 This chapter is the first one to turn to get a quick refresher on key points.
WHY fad diets DO NOT WORK
There are many diets on the market. There are two primary mistakes made by virtually every popular diet.
1) Starting out a plan with a highly restrictive introduction. This is a problem because it induces the low-leptin starvation response. This is a manipulation of calorie intake that plays on the fact that for a period of time a person's metabolism is generally set to burn the amount of calories they are eating, even though that amount is high. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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| Fad diets may produce some results, but the fact is that not only can these diets be unhealthy (particularly if you jump from one diet to the next), but once you go off the diet, the weight often returns—along with some added pounds. Much of the rapid weight loss you see with some of the diets and/or products available can be attributed to loss of water weight.
Q Losing weight too quickly can suppress the immune system. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 Athletes who do not eat an optimal diet, especially those who are trying to control theit weight ot use fad diets while exercising strenuously, may become deficient in zinc to the extent that performance or health is compromised.205' 206 One double-blind trial in women found that 135 mg pet day of zinc for two weeks improved one measure of muscle strength.207 Whether these women were zinc deficient was not determined in this study. |
| Treating obesity should not include overly restrictive or fad diets that are missing essential nutrients. In fact, weight loss is not necessarily appropriate for a growing child. Often the best goal for an overweight child is to maintain their current weight as they grow taller.
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| However, in seeking a competitive edge, athletes are often susceptible to fad diets or supplements that have not been scientifically validated. Nevertheless, there is much useful research to guide the exerciser towatd optimum health and performance. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| While there are literally hundreds of fad diets that have been promoted over the years that we could discuss, we will limit the discussion to the following popular diets:
The Atkins diet The Blood Type Diet The Ornish diet The macrobiotic diet The vegetarian diet The Zone diet
We will discuss the background, rationale and principles, and scientific validity of each diet along with our own recommendations.
The Atkins Diet
The Atkins diet is perhaps the most famous weight loss diet of all time. It is a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet developed by Robert Atkins, M.D., during the 1960s. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 These are fad diets that embody the worst of medicine, science and the popular media.
If you are only interested in a two-week menu plan to lose weight, then this book is not for you. I am appealing to your intelligence, not to your ability to follow a recipe or menu plan. I want to offer you a more profound and more beneficial way to view health. I have a prescription for maximum health that is simple, easy to follow and offers more benefits than any drug or surgery, without any of the side effects. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 You've probably heard that it's some kind of metabolic state that accompanies these diets and that you should avoid it—and those "high-protein" fad diets that produce it—at all costs. Several years ago, in a column at iVillage, I wrote the following, which is still true today:
Ketosis is so misunderstood and maligned that I really feel it's worthwhile to go into it in some detail. For those of you who are new to this, ketosis is something that happens in the body when you eat very, very few carbohydrates. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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| But the real science has been buried beneath a clutter of irrelevant or even harmful information—junk science, fad diets and food industry propaganda.
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I want to change that. I want to give you a new framework for understanding nutrition and health, a framework that eliminates confusion, prevents and treats disease and allows you to live a more fulfilling life. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 It singles out affected individuals offering fad diets, diet drugs and herbal supplements that are geared toward losing weight often at the expense of one's overall health. It fails to promote prevention and education about healthy alternatives and how to steer clear of heavily advertised processed food.
As mentioned, healthy eating guidelines and educational programs established by organizations and agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control, have funding that pales in comparison to the enormous advertising dollars of the food manufacturers. |
| Like Carole, most people are excited to discover that they can regain their health and energy, and lose weight without having to resort to restrictive fad diets they could never maintain, and often compromise their health in the long run.
In addition to lack of energy and excess weight, the other common consequence of extreme food consumption that people are often not aware is lowered immune function. |
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