fad diet

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Noun1.fad diet - a reducing diet that enjoys temporary popularityfad diet - a reducing diet that enjoys temporary popularity
obesity diet, reducing diet - a diet designed to help you lose weight (especially fat)
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'You can survive a fashion faux pas but maybe not a fad diet. If the dietary claim sounds too good to be true, it probably is (not true),' she says.
How to spot fake or potentially harmful diets
The study by Weight Watchers UK reveals 31 per cent of women plan to start a fad diet in the New Year and 13 per cent admit to following a weight-loss plan regardless of the health risks involved.
Why you're less likely to shed lbs solo; Experts urge slimmers to seek expert help
This means it's usually quite easy to spot a fad diet."
Why salad days are so good for us; As the days get warmer and the evenings get lighter, it is time to swap the soups for salads and replace the roasts with raw veg. Liz Day looks at the best ways to get in shape this summer
The TV presenter had also talked about losing weight with a dangerous fad diet that involves not eating any solid food for a month.
Was bulimia cause of Peaches Geldof death?
A highly recommended pick for any who would do more than just jump on another fad diet plan.
The Food is My Friend Diet
It's as if these men were proposing the latest dubious fad diet or anti-wrinkle cream.
Four decades of running Boston: Larry Boies, Jr., MD
LAS VEGAS -- With great enthusiasm, an overweight patient announces plans to embark on a fad diet. The physician is skeptical and wants to steer the person to a nutritionally balanced, low-calorie, low-fat regimen.
Fad diets pose dilemma in patient counseling process
'These products are another example of a fad diet taking advantage of people and I consider them a waste of time.
Atkins diet food range
"The Atkins diet produces weight loss, as does the grapefruit diet, the rotation diet, and every other fad diet Out there," says one of the researchers, Colorado's James Hill.
Big fat fake: the Atkins diet controversy and the sorry state of science journalism
Certainly, there are people who lose weight on any type of diet, whether it's a fad diet of eating nothing but steak and lobster or a three-day juice fast.
Give Them the Best You Have
Fad diet though it was, people did lose weight on it and subsequent plans of its kind.
Variety May Be the Spice of Life, But It Can Make You Fat
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