What Makes the Grapefruit Diet a Fad?
A balanced diet includes foods from a variety of categories including dairy, meat and/or beans, grains, etc. When choosing a diet, it is important to remember that no one food provides your body will all the nutrients you need. A balanced, healthy diet lets you get everything you need by eating a variety of foods. Diets based around one food whether it be grapefruit, cabbage soup, cottage cheese, tuna or any other single item are not healthy. It can get confusing because these foods are good for you. What makes a fad diet unhealthy is that a single food, even a healthy food, does not meet nutritional requirements needed to promote good health. Balanced nutrition requires nutrients from across the spectrum of categories found on the food pyramid.
