Flat Belly Fad Diet

Written by Stuart Stevens | Thursday, 24 April 2008

If you come across any advertising or information regarding a diet called the Flat Belly Diet just put it in the bin. This latest diet fad is typical of unscrupulous diet promoters preying on gullible people and pandering to their insecurities about their weight.

According to the promoters of this fad diet you can specifically lose more weight around your abdomen than from any other part of your body if you follow what they tell you to do, however any serious nutritionist worth his or her salt will tell you that in the vast majority of cases (99% according to one study) the first place you lose weight from is your stomach anyway.

At Ukmedix News we have often written articles to warn people about fad diets because they give you unrealistic expectations about the weight that you will lose and often involve eating unhealthily in order to shed weight very quickly. At Ukmedix News we have come across the Lemon Diet, the Onion Diet, the Maple Syrup Diet and many more which are frankly unhealthy and should be avoided.

If you need to lose weight whatever eating plan that you come up with you should always make sure that it is healthy, and that it has a sensible and reasonable mix of fruit and vegetables, protein, carbs and fat.

Research has also shown that people who lose weight extremely quickly are statistically likely to put on that weight very quickly again and even end up heavier than they were in the first place. On the other hand people who lose weight healthily and over the long term are more likely to sustain that weight loss in the long run.

So watch out for diet claims which are printed in big bright letters and followed by lots of exclamation marks and which claim “amazing breakthroughs”, the chances are that they are wasting your time.

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