3 Ways To Spot A Dangerous Fad Diet
October 6, 2008
Are you fed up with dangerous fad diets? I sure am and with my experience as a Registered Dietitian I know firsthand how susceptible you can be to the false claims that fad diets make. I am here to teach you how to instantly recognize the 3 keys to a dangerous fad diet.
It should be a criminal offense in regards to what some of the fad diets do to your metabolism. Yes, they help you lose weight fast, initially. But they can absolutely destroy a person’s metabolism and cause them to gain much more weight back.
I believe in a much more sensible approach to help you lose weight fast. To lose weight fat you don’t need to follow a fad diet. You can achieve rapid fat loss in a very safe and healthy manner when the correct approach is taken.
The following are my top three keys for instantly recognizing a dangerous fad diet:
One Ingredient Diets:
Any diet that preaches eating only one ingredient - such as ice cream or grapefruit - for an extended period of time can be classified immediately as a dangerous fad diet. There are dozens of these types of diets on the market. The problem with these fad diets is that they are low on overall calories and deficient of many important nutrients that assist with weight loss. When fad diets focus on 1 nutrient as the main source of weight loss all it is doing is severely restricting calories so that you see weight loss. Once you have met your weight loss goal and are no longer following the fad diet where do you go from there? The weight comes right back on because most people revert back to their old way of eating. Many times the weight gain is much worse than where you started.
Fasting:
A “lose weight fast” program that advises extended periods of fasting should be avoided at all costs. Very simply, not eating will wreak havoc on your metabolism. If you are looking to lose weight fast then not eating is potentially the worst thing you can do. Fasting causes your body to increase a hormone called lipoprotein lipase. Many call this a “starvation” hormone because when this hormone is elevated your body will adjust how it uses the calories you eat. Your body will start to store more of the calories you eat as fat calories when this hormone is elevated. It does this to protect itself and to make sure it has enough calories in reserve when it needs them. Fad diets that encourage you to fast or severely restrict calories will generally cause an increase in this “starvation” hormone.
Miraculous Claims:
Let commons sense prevail when it comes to investigating a fad diet. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Don’t fall for the too good to be true claims of miraculous weight loss. Weight loss isn’t hard, but it does take some effort and work. I recommend enlisting the advice of a qualified nutritionist or health professional when attempting to lose weight fast.
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