fad diets

You've heard about them. You've probably even tried a few. Fad diets are everywhere - advertised in magazines, discussed on TV, and promoted in books and instructional videos. Scarcely a week goes by without some new diet "guru" claiming that a new method or supplement or weight loss secret will cause your excess pounds to melt away and never come back. There are diets based on catchy concepts: the Eat Great, Lose Weight Diet; the Fit for Life; the New Beverly Hills Diet; and the Eat Right 4 Your Type diet. There are diets based on eating only one food

The old saying, "if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably isn't true", can be applied to almost any situation, but this idea really resonates in relation to weight loss. 

Fad diets, or fashionably popular diets, have been around for years. They make losing weight seem like a quick project to be checked off of a to-do list. The truth is, if losing weight was that quick and easy, overweight and obesity wouldn't be at the epidemic proportions that they are throughout the world today.