Fad diets are diets that involve rapid weight loss, but are only to be followed for a short period of time.  The term has also come to mean any diet that explodes into national or international fame, only to plummet into obscurity. Some of these fad diets include the cabbage soup diet, the Atkins diet, and the cookie diet. Some of the newly released diets include the Every Other Day Diet and the Cheat Your Way Thin Diet. They have been proven to work quite effectively for fat loss and they both talk about lifestyle diet rather than simple fad. Are they telling the truth or are they FAD as well?

Fad diets are a subcategory of food fads. A food fad is a phenomenon in which some food or category of food suddenly becomes very popular. Common aspects of these fads include:

-    Some elements of the food are said to have miraculous properties.
-    Some foods must be avoided because they have equally amazing powers, but that do bad things.

The Atkins diet displays the characteristics of one of these fad diets. In this diet carbohydrates are the Keystone element that is negative and therefore to be avoided. Carbohydrates take on both of the common elements in that removing carbohydrates from the diet creates a near magical metabolic state in which fat is burned at an incredible rate.  Although it is a long-term diet, it did have short phases during which carbohydrate cutting was taken to the extreme. However, many people are able to continue the Atkins diet for years.

As with many have diets, Atkins popularity was extreme and short-lived. For a number of years the Atkins diet was everywhere, and everyone seemed to be following it .  People from Hollywood actors to politicians were all on the Atkins diet. But after the death of Dr. Atkins, the diet became much less of a household word.

Fad diets can be unhealthy.  Even a diet like the Subway diet, as first presented in the commercials, could have problems. At its center was a young man named Jared who had lost hundreds of pounds in only a year by eating Subway sandwiches. Jared’s diet was severe — going down to 900 calories a day from over 10,000.  That could have killed him. The diet did include many positive aspects such as exercise, like walking. Let’s talk about workouts. Any Warp Speed Fat Loss review claims to melt MORE than 2lbs of fat per week. Would one call it a Fad WORKOUT?

Be careful when taking on some of these fad diets. You’re better off learning how to eat well on an everyday basis and maintaining a program of rigorous exercise.