“The Pounds Will Melt Right Off” and Other Diet Miracles
February 20, 2009 by JD
Filed under Health, Information, Rants
Cookies, grapefruit, and cabbage soup. What do they have in common?
They each are the cornerstone of current diet fads where people are losing dollars, not weight. Fad diets are a money making industry, and it seems like every popular TV “doctor” and fitness “expert” are creating one or hawking one for someone else. Here are a few advertising taglines of some of the more popular diet plans out there.
See if you can identify which diet goes with which blurb.
“Imagine losing 15 pounds a month while eating cookies!!”
“Delicious snacks. Sweet success.”
“It’s not a diet. It’s a healthy, balanced lifestyle”
“Burn fat while you eat!”
“Lose 10 pounds every week!”
“The delicious, doctor designed, foolproof weight-loss plan”
And my personal favorite:
“The diet God originally gave mankind!”
Look, the truth is most diet fads are just that - fads. They come and go and generally are ineffective at providing long term weight control solutions. Pounds do not “melt” off. Grapefruit really doesn’t “burn” fat. And any diet that advises the use of appetite suppressant drugs (Cookie Diet) is just plain dangerous.
The key to consistent weight control is a balanced, healthy diet combined with a vigorous exercise program.
For an interesting quickie analysis of all the current fad diets, check out this report from RNCentral.com
And just to leave this on a humorous note, take a look at this video:
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