"Fad" Weight Loss Diet
Obesity takes lives, but fads and extreme weight loss programs can make it worse
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Obesity is a physical condition that refers to excess body fat. If you struggle with weight, you've probably been through at least one dieting faux pas in your life. Nearly 100 million Americans go on weight-loss diets every year, and up to 95 percent of them regain the weight they lost within five years. Even worse, a third regain more weight than they lose, putting them at risk of a "yo-yo effect" from one popular diet to the next.
Traditional treatments for weight problems, focusing on fad diets and weight-loss drugs, can leave people with the same weight plus the burden of health problems. Currently, an estimated 65% of American adults are obese or overweight. Although our culture is obsessed with getting and staying thin, it's not about how we look. Obesity is known to be a precursor to many debilitating health conditions, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoarthritis, and gallbladder disease. Obesity is responsible for up to 375,000 deaths each year. Moreover, the public health costs of obesity are staggering. According to Harvard researchers, obesity is a factor in 19% of all cases of heart disease, with an estimated $30 billion in annual medical costs. Obesity is also a factor in 57% of diabetes cases, with medical costs reaching $9 billion per year.
Set realistic goals.
No doubt over the years you have been hooked on one or more weight loss diet programs that promise to help you lose weight quickly and painlessly. Many of these rapid weight loss diet programs end up damaging your health, causing physical discomfort and bloating, and ultimately leading to disappointment as you regain the weight soon after losing it. Fad diets and rapid weight loss diet programs generally overemphasize certain types of foods. They violate the basic principle of good nutrition: to stay healthy, you need to eat a balanced diet that includes a variety of foods. Safe, healthy, and sustainable weight loss is what is really missing in thousands of popular diet plans.
Some weight loss diet plans are successful for a short period of time, then fade away. Some lose popularity due to unproductivity or anxiety, while others simply lose public curiosity. Examples of such fad diets are the South Beach Diet, Atkins Diet, Grapefruit Diet, Cabbage Soup Diet, Rotation Diet, Beverly Hills Diet, Breatharian, Ornish Plan, and many more. These fad diets advocate specific techniques (such as eliminating certain foods, or eating only certain combinations of foods) combined with the basic idea that the body breaks down and uses parts of itself to make up the energy difference by essentially transforming substances into body energy. This self-cannibalism, or phenomenon known as catabolism, typically begins with the breakdown of stored body fat.
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