Fad Diets You Should Absolutely Never Try. By K. Aleisha Fetters. Every day it seems a new diet is ready to make weight loss faster and easier than ever before. Or at least they say they are. The following diets might spur short- term weight loss, but many are difficult to follow, have arbitrary rules, and a few could put your health in danger. Raw foodies say cooking destroys nutrients. Though it's true that cooking produce can sometimes reduce nutrient levels, cooked veggies still pack plenty of fiber, vitamins and minerals, and in some instances cooking actually enhances nutrients while also killing bacteria. The biggest issue with this extreme form of veganism? Food prep - - it's totally impractical, says Christopher N. Ochner, Ph. D., director of research development and administration at the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center. Raw foodies spend hours upon hours juicing, blending, dehydrating, sprouting, germinating, cutting, chopping and rehydrating. The diet certainly has positive points; it's heavy on fresh produce and other healthy, satisfying foods while eliminating processed fare, which in itself may spur weight loss. But your body is incredibly efficient at keeping your p. H levels where they need to be, so cutting out these foods really won't affect your body's p. January 2016 Issue. Ask the Expert: Popular Fad Diets for 2016 By Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN Today's Dietitian Vol. Q: What are the names of some of the. How to Diet Properly. It can be very frustrating to feel like you are overweight, not to mention the health risks involved. You might feel less confident and even a. H, says Ochner. Not to mention there's no research proving that p. H affects your weight in the first place. The bottom line: The diet is strict, complicated and bans foods that can have a place in a healthy eating plan, such as meat, dairy and alcohol. For example, on the diet, those with type O blood are to eat lean meats, vegetables and fruits, and avoid wheat and dairy. Meanwhile, type A dieters go vegetarian, and those with type B blood are supposed to avoid chicken, corn, wheat, tomatoes, peanuts and sesame seeds. However, there's no scientific proof that your blood type affects weight loss. And depending on your blood type, the diet can be extremely restrictive. Its quick- fix version involves a day of fasting allowing only water and juice during a full or new moon - - and supposedly losing up to six pounds in water weight in a single day. The extended version starts with that daylong fast and continues with specific eating plans for each phase of the moon. While you'll lose some weight from not eating, it has nothing to do with the moon, and it will come right back, Ochner says. Siegal's Cookie Diet, The Hollywood Cookie Diet and the Smart for Life Cookie Diet all promise that eating cookies will help you drop pounds. Of course, you don't get to chow down chocolate- chip cookies - - you eat about 5. Then you eat a normal dinner, for a total of 1,0. If you stick to the diet, you will likely lose some weight, but by depriving yourself all day, you set yourself up for bingeing come dinnertime, Ochner says. On this diet, developed by obesity doctor Alwin Lewis, M. D., you skip breakfast and eat only five bites of food for lunch and five more for dinner. Pretty much all involve subsisting for days on only lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper mixed in water. Common side effects include fatigue, nausea, dizziness and dehydration. Plus, on an extremely low- calorie diet like this one, you are going to lose muscle, exactly the kind of weight you don't want to lose, Caspero says. Dieters replace breakfast and lunch with about 1. Some people will try crazy, dangerous fad diets for weight loss, like eating cotton balls or tapeworms. Find out how more about some of the most unusual fad diets. Slimming down through the ages Fad diets come and go, but the idea of dieting itself has been around for centuries. From President Taft to Victoria Beckham, and the. Popular diets: TopConsumerReviews.com reviews and ranks the best popular diets available today. It's easy to get too few calories for your body to run its best, Ochner says. Besides, who really wants to take jars of baby food to work each day? In the short term, it does yield weight loss. It can also promote bloating and gas from all the cabbage and is lacking in protein, which is needed to preserve lean body mass. While I am a fan of nutrient- dense, low- calorie foods for weight loss, it should be balanced with other foods such as fruits, carbohydrates, healthy fats and lean protein. Beware of fad diets Experts have known for decades that extended crash diets can be dangerous—especially when the diets become a fad. In the late 1970s, an. And this diet definitely hits that, limiting dieters to 8. Some iterations also prohibit eating extremely hot or extremely cold foods, preparing foods in aluminum pans, and requires dieters to space . Rumored to have been followed by Elvis Presley, this diet takes that simple fact to the extreme, encouraging people to use sedatives to stay asleep for days on end. But sleeping the days away not only starves the body and causes muscle deterioration from a lack of movement, but actually risks death: . However, there's no evidence that HCG does more than act as a placebo, Ochner says. Yes, you'll lose weight, but only due to the extreme calorie restriction. Though a health care provider may legally give you HCG injections, they're typically used to treat fertility issues in women and the FDA has not approved them for weight loss. As for over- the- counter homeopathic products that supposedly contain HCG? Those are illegal. But apparently, some people do. This weight- loss tactic has been around for decades, preying on especially desperate dieters. Here's how it goes: Ingest tapeworm eggs, let the tapeworm eat the food you consume once it gets to your intestines, and then, when you lose enough weight, get a doctor to prescribe you an anti- worm medication. But some tapeworm eggs can migrate to various parts of your body or cause other potentially life- threatening problems. Freaked out yet? Not only does consuming cotton balls in place of food deprive the body of nutrients, eating anything that isn't actually food can cause blockages in your intestines. What's more, most cotton balls aren't even made of cotton - - they're composed of bleached, synthetic fibers. Dietitians Debunk Some Crazy Popular Diets. I know, I know, you want to lose weight. No, like, yesterday. So you're going to try that trendy new diet that your friends are on. It shouldn't be too hard, right? Lots of diets sound like they're based on scientific fact, but what happens a lot is that the people promoting these diets tweak good science into big untruths (and sadly, big profits). It's sometimes barely perceptible that this is happening, and it makes their products seem legit when they're totally not. Luckily you've got help now to figure these things out! So put down that Bulletproof coffee and acid/alkaline food list and listen to Abbey and Abby! You do not need bad diets to be healthy, fit, or to lose weight. You just need common sense, and no one delivers that like us, the two outspoken dietitians. In our first video in a series, Abbey Sharp and I critique the following bad fad diets that will lighten your wallet but not your scale or your spirit. The Raw Diet. Consisting of foods that aren't heated above 4. C, this diet is all about not destroying 'natural enzymes' that foods contain. I mean, most of the enzymes on earth would qualify as 'natural' if they're not man- made. But does eating a diet that's uncooked have any benefits? The truth is, the acid in your stomach denatures those 'natural enzymes' that you're taking so much care not to cook! Some foods are better off cooked, too - - for health and for palatability. Most importantly, How long do you think you'll be able to maintain a raw diet for? The Bulletproof Diet. How about a 6. 00- calorie butter coffee for breakfast? The Bulletproof Diet, developed by someone with no nutrition expertise whatsoever, promotes its creamy coffee elixir made by whipping special 'bulletproof' coffee together with grassfed butter. The Bulletproof Diet is no miracle. You're drinking a lot of calories that aren't very nutritious, and those calories are making you feel full. No magic. The Alkaline Diet. The Alkaline Diet is based on the belief that acidic foods create an acidic environment in the body, which can cause cancer and other diseases. The diet emphasizes alkaline foods such as fruits, vegetables, and whole grains - - which is great - - but the no- so- great part of this diet? It's based upon claims that are totally unscientific. What you eat doesn't change your blood p. H at all, because your body tightly regulates this. The science behind acid body environments and disease is also wonky - cancer causes an acidic environment in your body - - not the other way around. Overall the alkaline diet is actually healthy, but the claims it makes aren't. Go ahead and eat fresh, unprocessed foods, but no cake? How long can you live without cake? The Master Cleanse. The 'granddaddy of cleanses', this crazy, disgusting (or crazy disgusting, if you will) cleanse involves 'detoxing' with a lemon juice, water, and cayenne pepper concoction and salt water flushes or laxatives. The problem is that your body cleanses itself, and there's nothing it can't handle that the Master Cleanse can. In fact, starving yourself with this juice fast is a losing battle, because any weight you lose will come right back once you eat solid food. There are better ways to kick- start a healthy diet - like, maybe stop eating junk? Suggest a correction.
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