Weight Loss, Dieting & Obesity

Silly Fad Diets - Diet Reviews of Popular Fad Diets with Warnings and Dangers.

Diet fads are always very popular. The temptation for an overweight person to believe that there exists a quick fix rapid weight loss solution to their problem is always strong. Diet fads have come and gone over the years, gaining bursts of short term popularity when endorsed by celebrities or chat shows. Eventually, the next "miracle" fad diet comes along and promises new hope and the old ones fade from memory. Sadly, the fact that such crash diet fads are almost always unhealthy, dangerous and ultimately fail anyway also seems to fade from people's memory.

Most of these rapid weight loss fad crash diets are little more than modified fasting. They may well induce significant short-term rapid weight loss, though not in a healthy or sustainable manner. These crash diets cannot be maintained long term, do not address the underlying dietary and lifestyle causes that created your weight problem in the first place, have significant adverse health repercussions, deplete the body of hydration and muscle tissue (yet very little loss of body fat) thus slowing your body's metabolic rate, and thereby sets your body up for a significant weight rebound almost immediately the diet has ended.

Despite the deceptive encouragement of early weight loss, after not very long your latter state will be worse than before you started.

Despite the well established health dangers and lack of sustainable results, the promulgators of these silly fad diets disguise such dangers with "healthy sounding" hype. Many are promoted not merely for weight loss, but as "detox diets". Don't believe a word of such utter tripe. Not once do any of these diets even specify just what toxins in your body they claim their diet detoxes, much less provide any empirical evidence that they actually achieve such claims. The otherwise healthy-sounding term "detox diet" has really just become another euphemism for "silly fad diet".

In this section, we will take a closer look at the claims and the truth about a number of the most well known silly fad diets:

• The Lemonade Diet (aka The Lemon Diet, the Lemon Detox Diet, the Maple Syrup Diet)
• The Cabbage Soup Diet
• The Watermelon Diet
• The Grapefruit Diet
• The Bread Diet
• The Milk Diet
• The Cookie Diet

More such crash diet fads will be added to these reviews as they gain popularity.