Common fad diets:

When a diet restricts you to only liquids and not food at all, this is called a liquid diet; dangerous fad diets that strip your body of the essential nutrients it needs to function properly. Besides this being a dangerous way to lose weight, changes are once you get off the liquid diet and begin eating again, you are sure to gain back all the weight you lost and then some.

Cabbage soup/ice-cream diet is one that suggests the inclusion of only one type of diet. This fad diet will restrict all the other kind of food items, which is very dangerous. Weakness will start showing very soon in the absence of necessary minerals and vitamins. Such dieters will experience that their metabolic rate has reduced considerably. Due to lower intake of calories during fad diet, the metabolism rate goes down.

Fad diets such as the Atkins diet limit or eliminate all carbohydrates from your diet which is very unhealthy as carbs are your energy source, which you need to burn calories. These types of fad diets allow you to take in high amounts of protein and no carbs, which in the end can cause serious side effects to your kidneys and liver. These fad diets also claim that by taking in high amounts of protein this will build your muscle tone, but the fact is you only build muscle by working those muscles.

For the body to stay healthy it needs a balanced supply of vegetables and fruits, along with protein and carbohydrates. Fad diets are restrictive and although you will lose weight quickly you will not be the healthy person you desire to be.

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