What Are Fad Diets
Fad diets or crash diets are designed to help you lose weight quickly. By severely restricting your diet, they force your body to drop weight fast. Most rely on the elimination of a certain food group or emphasizing “miracle” foods that will help you lose weight. These diets all have a few basic components in common. They all claim very quick weight loss that flies in the face of conventional dieting wisdom. The diets also require you to severely change the way you eat by dropping calories or avoiding entire food groups. Other fad diets are based on “food myths” that haven’t held up against science. Food combining diets, negative calorie diets and fat flush diets all fall under this category.
