People can become almost addicted to fad diets as they try one after another...

In the United States the month of March has been designated to be National Nutrition Month and to support this initiative the American Dietetic Association is promoting the idea that people should diet “Fad Free”.

We are not great fans of fad diets as you can see from reading many Ukmedix News articles. Fad diets tend to promise too much and are often unhealthy and only provide temporary weight loss. Fad diets go against the philosophy of healthy, balanced and long term attitudes to weight loss. Often fad diets tell you not to eat one food group, involve the use of diet supplements and the bottom line is rapid weight loss is not healthy for you physically and psychologically.

People can become almost addicted to fad diets as they try one after another. The point is that they are always trying to cut corners and not face the real issues of their weight gain. Fad diets also tend to be favoured by the Yo Yo dieters who are those people whose weight is always going either up or down. The American Dietetic Association has made a list of some diets that it considers to be fad diets and they include the Zone Diet, the Sonoma Diet, the South Beach Diet and the Atkins Diet.

We reckon at Ukmedix News that we can see a fad diet from a mile off and the Wellness Councils of America have recently released their own set of fad diet spotters. They include the use of ‘miracle’ or ‘magic’ foods that supposedly burn fat off your body. Too much of one type of food and ridiculously rigid food choices or the promise of very quick weight loss of say more than 1 kilo weekly. Fad diets rarely tell you to get exercise (they know that it’ll scare people off) and they rarely warn people about the side effects of their unhealthy eating plans.

Keep it simple, keep it healthy and get some exercise says Ukmedix News!