Top
Ten Fad Diets
For all those who are
diet-conscious, here’s a list of the top
ten fad diets everyone’s crazy about.
The
Grape Diet
The grape diet as the name
suggests is a very strict one as it lets you eat nothing but grapes,
grapes,
and more grapes and drink nothing but water. Other people especially
those who
have other ailments find this a very useful and helpful diet. It has
been said
that this helps cure illnesses such as cancer and diabetes.
The
Cabbage Soup Diet
Cabbage is known to have
fat burning properties and because of this notion, the cabbage
soup diet guidelines has become famous. Others say
that this is the “secret technique” that
hospitals use for their overweight and obese patients who need to lose
weight
in a short amount of time.
The
3-Day Diet
This regimen basically
just limits your calorie intake and the combination of foods from all
food
groups. This again promises a huge weight loss in juts three days.
Lemonade
diet
For this kind of diet, you
are advised to stay away from consuming any solid food; however, you
cannot
take just plain water. The lemonade diet took its name from the system
of the
diet itself: mix lemon, maple syrup, cayenne pepper and water. This is
what you
have to take for the rest of the day consuming about six to twelve
glasses of
this everyday.
Atkins
diet
Here you are advised to
eat only high protein and low calorie foods. Your carbohydrate intake
is limited.
Raw
Food diet
Another name for this is
the all-veggie diet. As the name suggest, you are only allowed eating
vegetables, whole grains, fruits, and nuts and avoiding calories in
whatever
form.
The
Grapefruit Diet
Grapefruits are rumored to
contain fat-burning enzymes. You have to consume grapefruit during
meals along
with protein-rich foods.
The
Hollywood Diet
People who undergo this
type of diet are made to consume a specially concocted juice which is a
mixture
of vitamins and minerals and antioxidants. You are not allowed to drink
or
smoke during the regimen.
3-hour
diet
This only means that you
space your meals every three hours because the body has a natural
tendency to
signal your brain that you are hungry. However, you must take
everything in moderation
still.
The
Negative Calorie diet
This diet
only means that you consume foods that
help you burn more calories. It doesn’t mean that you eat
foods, which have
negative calorie because there is no actual food that has that property.
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