Fad Diets

There's always going to be a latest-and-greatest way to lose weight. Fad diets sprout up all the time, from the cabbage soup diet to the "all grape" diet, to low carbohydrate to the Hollywood Celebrity Diet.

It's essential to really look at these fad diets before going on anything, because while you may lose weight in the short term, the damage to your body long term could be devastating.

Considering the popularity of these fad diets and the fact that one of every two Americans is still overweight only adds to this conclusion.
The thing is sensible diet plans don't seem to be important with many of the fad diets.

There are two main reasons that people want to lose weight: to both improve their health and/or to look better. They might lose weight short term on fad diets, but for the long term, the approach isn't always the healthiest.

Diets should not go against common knowledge of long-run health. They should not recommend doing counterintuitive things such as reduce carbohydrate intake. They should not include few vegetables and fruits, or few grains. In fact - with all of the low carbohydrate fad diets around, many people have been losing sight of the fact that these foods are not only excellent for your health - but for reducing cancer.

It's easy to become bored and resentful of traditional diets (and understandably so), but the diet that one chooses should still make sense for the long term and be proven.

One such diet is calorie cycling. This diet allows people to eat the types of food that they want (and recommends healthier foods), doesn't restrict any types of foods, and allows for long-term results. Just what the doctor ordered.

You can check out more about calorie cycling on my website at http://tinyurl.com/yayFOODlifestyle