Fad diet
The phrases fad diet and food fad originally referred to idiosyncratic diets and eating patterns that promote short-term weight loss, usually with no concern for long-term weight maintenance, and enjoy temporary popularity.[1][dubious ]
The term "food fad" may also be used with a positive connotation, namely, to describe the short term popularity among restaurants and consumers of an ingredient, dish, or preparation technique.[2]
Definition[edit]
A fad diet is an eating regime that focuses on a particular food or food group.[3][dubious ] They are often endorsed by celebrities or medical professionals who style themselves as "weight loss gurus" and profit from sales of branded products, books, and public speaking.[4] Fad diets attract people who want to lose weight quickly and easily and keep that weight off; this is not actually possible and while some people following fad diets may lose weight in the short term, the loss is generally not sustained.[5]
In 1974, the term was defined as three categories of food fads.[6][dubious ]
- A particular food or food group is exaggerated and purported to cure specific diseases.
- Foods are eliminated from an individual’s diet because they are viewed as harmful.
- An emphasis is placed on eating certain foods to express a particular lifestyle.
FamilyDoctor.org, a publication of the American Academy of Family Physicians, for example, proclaims that fad diets "typically don't result in long-term weight loss and they are usually not very healthy. In fact, some of these diets can actually be dangerous to your health."[7] They then offer a long list that includes low-carbohydrate diets in general and Atkins, the Zone diet and three others by name. One scientific study contradicts the website's assertions. A 2007 study published in the Journal of American Medicine concluded that overweight premenopausal women age 25 - 50 without any heart, renal, kidney, or diabetic disease on the Atkins diet lost more weight than those on specific low-fat diets after 12 months. The researchers concluded that low-carbohydrate diets are a "feasible alternative recommendation for weight loss."[8] However, this study did not compare the Atkins diet to calorie restriction diets.
Examples[edit]
Some programs considered fad diets:
- The 4-Hour Body[9]
- 5:2 diet[10]
- Blood type diet[11]
- Cabbage soup diet[10][12]
- Detox diet[13]
- Dukan Diet[13]
- Fruitarianism[14]
- Grapefruit diet[12][15]
- Israeli Army diet[16]
- Lemon Detox Diet[17]
- Macrobiotics[11]
- Master Cleanse[17]
- Morning banana diet[18]
- Paleolithic diet[19]
- Scarsdale medical diet[20][21][22][4][23]
- South Beach Diet[15][24][25]
- Low-carbohydrate diet [12][26]
- High carb/low fat diets
- Food combining
- Liquid diets
- Diet pills, supplements and herbal remedies
References[edit]
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- ^ "Illegal milk: the new US food fad". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2008-06-24.
- ^ Ashraf H (2013). Smith AF, Kraig B, ed. Diets, Fad. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America. volume 1 (2nd ed.) (Oxford University Press). pp. 623–626. ISBN 978-0-19-973496-2.
- ^ a b Tina Gianoulis, "Dieting" in the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture Ed. Thomas Riggs. Vol. 2. 2nd ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 2013. p106-108. ISBN 9781558628472
- ^ Alters S, Schiff W (22 February 2012). Chapter 10: Body Weight and Its Management. Essential Concepts for Healthy Living (Sixth ed.) (Jones & Bartlett Publishers). p. 327. ISBN 978-1-4496-3062-1.
- ^ McBean, Lois D. M.S., R.D. and Elwood W. Speckmann Ph.D. (1974). Food faddism: a challenge to nutritionists and dietitians. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 27, 1071-1078.
- ^ "Nutrition for Weight Loss: What You Need to Know About Fad Diets". Familydoctor.org. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
- ^ JAMA
- ^ Hiatt, Kurtis. 1 March 2011, U.S. News & World Report, "'The 4-Hour Body'—Does It Deliver Results?".
- ^ a b http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/loseweight/Pages/how-to-diet.aspx
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Nutrition for Weight Loss: What You Need to Know About Fad Diets". familydoctor.org. 2004-02-01. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
- ^ a b c d Crosariol, Beppi. 9 January 2014,The Globe and Mail, "Feeling frugal after the holidays? Try these 11 affordable wines". Accessed 3 February 2014.
- ^ a b c webmd.com, 22 April 2011, "Are Fad Diets Worth the Risk?". Accessed 3 February 2014.
- ^ Forbes, Gilber, American Academy of Pediatrics, 1980. "[Food Fads: Safe Feeding of Children http://pedsinreview.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/1/7/207]" Pediatrics in Review. 1980;1:207-210. doi:10.1542/10.1542/pir.1-7-207.
- ^ a b c d Sandra Bastin for University of Kentucky Extension Service. August 1998; revised March 2004. University of Kentucky Extension Service: Fad Diets
- ^ Jonathan. "How to Spot Fad Diets". ahm Health Insurance. Retrieved 2012-07-25.
- ^ a b news.com.au. 8 January 2014, "The worst diets of 2013 - and the best for 2014". Accessed 3 February 2014.
- ^ Toyama, Michiko. Time, 17 October 2008, "Japan Goes Bananas for a New Diet" Accessed 1 July 2011.
- ^ "Caveman fad diet".
- ^ Fad Diets Sandra Bastin, Ph.D., R.D., L.D. Cooperative Extension Service. University of Kentucky - College of Agriculture. March 2004. Retrieved August 28, 2015
- ^ Dr. Paul Martiquet, Medical Health Officer, Vancouver Coastal Health. Muscles for brains: How fad diets can hurt you.
- ^ Jane E Brody for the New York Times. June 3, 1981 Personal Health: Another Entry in the Annals of Fad Diets
- ^ Southern Nevada Health District. 2015 Back to the 80s: Fad Diets
- ^ DeBruyne L, Pinna K, Whitney E (2011). Chapter 7: Nutrition in practice — fad diets. Nutrition and Diet Therapy (8th ed.) (Cengage Learning). p. 209. ISBN 1-133-71550-8.
'a fad diet by any other name would still be a fad diet.' And the names are legion: the Atkins Diet, the Cheater's Diet, the South Beach Diet, the Zone Diet. Year after year, 'new and improved' diets appear ...
- ^ "People to watch". Nature Medicine 12 (1): 29–29. 2006. doi:10.1038/nm0106-29. ISSN 1078-8956.
James Hill wants Americans to shed pounds. But instead of promoting any one fad diet, he embraces most--Atkins, South Beach, grapefruit-only--as relatively effective ways to lose weight.
- ^ "Fad diets: Low Carbohydrate Diet Summaries" (PDF).
- ^ Cohen, Larry et al. Prevention Institute, San Jose State University. "The O Word: Why the Focus on Obesity is Harmful to Community Health". Accessed 3 February 2014.
- ^ a b Daniels, June RN, MSN. Nursing: December 2004 - Volume 34 - Issue 12 - p 22–23, "Fad diets: Slim on good nutrition". Accessed 3 February 2014.
