With the obesity epidemic believed to affect 50% of the planets population, the age of ‘celebrity diets’ and ‘fast weight loss diets’ has become more popular than ever before. From the apple cider diet to the Zone Diet to the 48 Hour Miracle diet, each of these diet fads all claim to help you lose weight fast and increased energy.
Are they real?
No… Apart from helping you to experience instant water weight loss, 90% of slimmer’s have reported minimal weight losses of just 1-2lbs before plateauing after their first week.
More disconcertingly, once dieters stopped eating these said meals they soon regained all the weight they lost.
Can they harm your health?
Whilst many celebrity fads can help you to witness quick weight loss, most cannot be used for more than a week.
Limiting the amount of nutrients needed to ensure your organs receive only the energy they need to work efficiently, many involve reducing your calorie content to less than 1,000 calories a day – over half your allowance.
Accompanied by strict exercise routines and constant calorie counting, celebrity diets run the complication of causing you to feel quezy, tired, unable to focus and more worryingly prevent your body from working efficiently – All of which are dangerous to your health.
How can you spot a Fad diet?
Fad diets are quite easy to spot. Promoting a fast solution to your weight loss issues, you can easily spot a celebrity diet by their:
- Too good to be true claims
- Lack of clinical studies (checkout proven diets and diet pills with clinical studies)
- Elimination of one if not more of the five recommended food groups
- Recommendations from medical professionals without reviews from other researchers
When picking a dietary fad or weight loss supplement, it is essential to deeply research their studies first before including them into your eating habits. If there are no medical trials or proof that they can promote real and credible health benefits, then more often than not they are too good to be true.