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How To Avoid A Fad Weight Loss Diet

By Bonnie Belle


The only thing worse than obesity is following a fad weight loss diet to eliminate it.

Obesity is a condition of excessive fat. If you are obese, chances are high that you have tried more than one diet plan to lose weight.

Close to a hundred million Americans go on a weight loss diet in any given year and up to ninety-five percent of them regain the weight they lose within five years. Worse, a third will gain back more weight than they lost, in danger of "yo-yoing" from one popular diet to another.

The conventional approach to weight problems, focusing on fad weight loss diets or weight loss drugs, may leave you with just as much weight and the additional burden of ill health. For example, some fad diets try to eliminate carbohydrates and emphasize protein. While protein is an excellent food group, it has to be seen in perspective.

The Role Of Protein In Weight Loss

More than half of Americans are overweight or suffering from obesity, and current statistics reckon the figure is close to 65 percent. Although staying thin will improve appearance, improving your health is the main reason to lose weight.

Obesity is known to be a precursor to many debilitating health conditions such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, osteoarthritis, and gallbladder disease. Obesity contributes to as many as 375,000 deaths every year.

Obesity is responsible for public health care costs skyrocketing. Harvard researchers have estimated that obesity is the precursor in 19% of heart attacks, whose annual cost is about $30 billion. Meanwhile, obesity has a significant impact on diabetes, with 57% of diabetes traced back to obesity. The cost of diabetes is about $9 billion a year.

How To Set Realistic Goals

You have probably fallen for more than one fat loss plan that failed over the years. The promise of a quick and painless change never happened.

Many of these quick weight loss diet programs undermine your health, cause physical discomfort, flatulence, and ultimately lead to disappointment when you start regaining weight, shortly after losing it.

Fad or quick weight loss diets suffer from overemphasizing the consumption of one type of food group. This goes against the fundamental ideas of eating well, which is to have a balanced diet consisting of numerous food groups.

Popular diet schemes fail to provide safe, healthy, and permanent weight loss.

Although many weight loss diet plans have been introduced, few last very long. This is because they fail to deliver on their promise and the general public soon gets bored with trying something that does not work.

These fad diets advocate a specific technique (such as eliminating a certain food, or eating only certain combinations of foods) in conjunction with the basic idea that the body makes up the difference in energy by breaking down and utilizing some part of itself, essentially converting matter into energy.

It makes no sense to pursue a fad diet that makes you feel tired and lethargic. Take the time to research a weight loss diet that is healthy for you and that is based on eating balanced meals.




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