Fad Diets
Fad diets can have harmful side-effects on your body. Check out our video where we discuss potential red flags that you need to be aware of before committing to a diet plan.
Expert: Sari Greaves, RD, CDN Step Ahead Weight Loss Center Nutrition Director
Transcript
The American Dietetic Association does not support completely eliminating certain foods and beverages from your diet. Another red flag of this or any popular diet is that it recommends many supplements that the author developed, which means she stands to gain financially.
Finally, “detox” regimens like coffee enemas are often unnecessary and potentially harmful. There’s no credible scientific evidence proving that “flushing” and “detoxing” the liver and lymphatic system results in weight loss. There’s also no scientific evidence that there’s a need to “flush” the liver, much less any real benefit from doing so.
The bottom line is that different diet plans and varying rules within each season require a lot of calculating and memorizing, inevitably making it time-consuming for the dieter to make sense of it all. Eating seasonal produce is certainly great for your health and the environment, but you don’t need a complicated program to reap the rewards of doing so.
Last Modified: 2012-07-24
Category: Health and Nutrition, Videos
