Top 05 Worst Health Fad Diets

Top 05 Worst Health Fad Diets

  Fad diets try to offer a quick fix for quick weight loss, and even if they work, the results are short-lived and the pounds come back. The biggest problem with unhealthy fad diets is that you shouldn't stick to any of them for long, as they are usually nutritionally unbalanced. Many fad diets don't work at all, and some can be dangerous because they're based on bad or weird ideas, like the Sleeping Beauty Diet where you lose yourself for a few days with sedatives.

  Caveman Diet 

  As you might have guessed, this diet revolves around trying to mimic a caveman diet. Allowed foods include lean meat (meaning dinosaur meat was lean), fish, vegetables, fruits, carrots, and nuts; and exceptions: grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar, and processed fats. All edible foods are foods that can be hunted and gathered. Please tell me why we want to model our eating habits after the caveman? Wasn't their average lifespan about 15 years?

   Macaroon Chocolate Diet

  Am I dreaming? Macarons AND chocolate? You know the old saying, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is," and that's the case here. You can't drink anything but water and the only chocolate you get is up to 1 ounce at the end of the day with some popcorn as an evening snack, but you can have pasta for lunch and dinner. Banned foods include sugar, alcohol, sodas, coffee, tea, nuts, popcorn, fried foods, dairy products, salt, and every junk food imaginable except red meat. Do you know how small an ounce of chocolate is? Is it worth not eating a steak once in a while? Most realistic diets encourage you to eat healthily prepared red meat. This diet offers basic food restrictions with a reward of 1 ounce of chocolate each night and the absence of some very important nutrients.

  Chicken soup diet

  You're allowed one breakfast a day (just one?), then you can eat as much chicken soup as you want for the rest of the day. This can't be good. You basically live on cereal, bagels, yogurt, figs, and gallons of chicken soup. It's similar to the "Cabbage Soup Diet" and both diets reek of malnutrition among other things.

   Zen diet

  It's really a very simple plan - eat only in its natural state, no red meat, and significantly limit other meats. Some Zen diets prohibit all meat and dairy products. The biggest problem is that little or no meat means there isn't enough protein needed for brain chemistry, muscle repair and bone building; little or no fat, good fat affects the body's satiety and ability to stabilize blood sugar and reduce inflammation. Bring on the pig!

   The 12 Day Grapefruit Juice Diet

  It's too good to be true. You can eat until you're full, you can double or triple the amount of meat, salad or vegetables per meal, you can fry food in oil and use butter generously on the vegetables, and when you say eat pork, you MUST eat it. . You can eat any kind of cheese, mayonnaise and regular salad dressing. But as the name suggests, you should drink 8 ounces of grapefruit juice with every meal, as this should be the catalyst to burn off what you're eating, as long as you're eating the right food combinations—don't forget the bacon! You should also drink eight glasses of water every day. The promise is that you'll lose 52 pounds in 2 ½ months while eating all the cheese, butter, bacon, and mayonnaise and swimming in water and grapefruit juice. Right. NEXT!