Today i learnt that the diet that I have been doing all these years was called a fad diet. Bob Greene author of a new best selling book called “The Best life Diet” said that :
- Fad diets distort the true meaning of the word “diet,” which is simply the foods you eat. “Diet should not mean what it has come to mean, which is a temporary way of eating for a temporary result,” Bob says.
- Fad diets lack nutritional value. Bob says the fad diet his colleagues followed was “nutritionally void,” and lacked calcium, fiber and whole grains, among other things.
- Oftentimes, fad diets are too high in sodium, Bob says. The diet he critiqued included high-sodium crackers with no nutritional value.
- Fad diets are often too low in calories. Bob says he’d rather see an individual exercising more and upping their caloric intake instead of depriving themselves.
- Fad diets rely on gimmicks, rather than common sense. Hot dogs and ice cream served as the hook for this particular diet, both of which Bob says should only be eaten sparingly.
- The pounds you lose on a fad diet are mostly water weight.
- You can’t reasonably stay on a fad diet for an extended period of time. “They’ll work temporarily, but you can’t live this way,” Bob says.
So, No more NO RICE, LESS SUGAR, DIET CRACKERS for me. Am going to do it right this time. Period!
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