Disadvantages of Fad Diets

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1. Fad Diets, which promise fast and easy weight reduction, are normally based on consuming more of a certain food type and none of others. In this way, you will not obtain the benefits of a balanced diet. You are sometimes recommended to take supplements, but some of these supplements are not taken by the body, unless they are consumed along with food that your diet has removed. After a couple of weeks, you will start developing deficiency due to malnutrition.

2. Often, Fad diets are boring and involve many restrictions. The enthusiasm of the idea will vanish after a day or two, following which your cravings will increase and make you break the diet. Finally, it may make you feel guilty that you were not strictly following the diet.

3. Most of these fad diets don’t follow the instructions given by the American Heart Association and other such bodies for nutrition levels in food. These diets may suggest high fat and low carbohydrate foods which will ultimately result in heart problems. They may say that the diet should be followed only on a short term basis. But if you don’t achieve your goal plan by then, you will either tend to continue with an unhealthy plan, or stop and regain the weight you lost.

4. Most fad diets don’t supply your body with the necessary amount of fresh fruits and vegetables and your diet program does not give you the diverse food supplements that you require.

5. Weight loss programs that are quick are only temporary, short lived solutions and will not have any permanent effect on your eating habits. Producing permanent change is the only solution to remain at the targeted weight once you have reached it. Fad diets are yo-yo cycles of quick weight reduction and equally rapid weight gain.

Such an effect is bad for your health as well as your self esteem and you would have been better off staying overweight. No matter what the publicity materials say, fad diets will not assist you on a long term basis. The ideal way to produce sustained weight loss is by eating a varied and properly balanced diet, avoiding high calorie foods, exercising regularly and most importantly, by avoiding fad diets