19 Diets You Should Avoid at All Costs!
Written: 08/08/2007
Every time the scale's needle goes up a little, you start to panic and go on the look out for ways to remedy to this "situation". Some go to extreme ways to lose weight as quickly as possible. These so called quick-fix diets known as fad diets or crash diets are extremely unhealthy and can lead to serious health complications. Most dieters on crash diets experience a rebound effect known as the Yo-yo effect whereby they put on more weight than they have lost.
A crash diet involves drastically cutting back on the amount of calories and fat that you take in on a daily basis. Similar to a starvation diet, a crash diet is often paired with other weight loss "fixes," including extreme exercise routines and the use of diuretics or diet pills.
Do crash diets really work?
During crash dieting, the body is subjected to extreme privation of essential nutrients. The dieters lose weight during the first few days but this is not real weight loss (burning of fat). Instead the body loses water. Eventually a crash dieter will reach a plateau where there will be no further weight loss.
Health problems linked to crash diets
- iron, vitamin B12, potassium and sodium deficiency
- liver and kidney failure
- heart attack
- stroke
- osteoporosis
- anorexia
- bulimia
19 Diets You Should Avoid
The following diets are must be avoided at all cost. Instead focus on healthy weight loss methods.
- Quick Fix Diet
Daily intake of 4 glasses of skim milk, 4 bananas, and 1 vitamin capsule; a boiled egg may be substituted for a banana.
- Cabbage Soup Diet
This diet plan requires the dieter to make a homemade soup chock full of vegetables that’s low in calories. The dieter is supposed to eat this soup as a main staple in their diet for 7 days.
- Special K Diet
The Special K Diet is a diet plan that the dieter eats Special K cereal with low fat milk twice a day (for breakfast and lunch.)
- 3-day Diet
The three day diet plan is another crash diet that is supposed to help you reduce your weight by minimizing the amount of food you take in for three days.
- 7-day diet
The 7 Day Diet is a quite risky diet when it comes to your good health and one that we cannot recommend. Basically, the daily menus are based on one food group which leaves nutrition hanging in the wind with a 'Please Help Me Quick Nitwit' sign.
- Grapefruit Diet
The menu for the grapefruit diet is supposed to provide a jump start to weight loss. Grapefruit has been hailed as the ultimate fat burning fruit.
- Coconut Diet
The Coconut Diet claims that the addition of coconut oil to an eating regime similar will speed weight loss and even enhance thyroid function.
- Shangri-La Diet
The Shangri-La Diet was created by Seth Roberts, an associate professor of Psychology at the University of California Berkley. Roberts spent years trying to perfect the Shangri-La Diet, using himself as a guinea pig to study the diet's effects.
- Bread and Butter Diet
The basic gimmick of this diet is that you get to eat a slice of bread with butter at every meal.
- Metabolism Diet
The Metabolism Diet Plan appears to be more of a starvation plan intended to boost metabolism.
- Russian Airforce Diet
The Russian Air Force Diet is another fad diet that is both strict and low in calories. It was originally developed in the former Soviet Union to keep soldiers fit. The diet has many similarities to the 3-Day Diet, but the difference is that it lasts seven days and has a slightly different menu.
- Atkins Diet
The Atkins diet promises that you will lose weight and not be hungry with a low-carbohydrate diet.
- Scarsdale Diet
The Scarsdale Diet has been around for some time. Developed by Dr. Herman Tarnower, this diet promises an unreasonable one-pound-per-day weight loss while you limit your food intake to specified amounts of fruits, vegetables and mostly lean sources of protein. It encourages the use of artificial sweeteners and herbal appetite suppressants to speed up weight loss.
- Chicken Soup Diet
Chicken Soup Diet works on a very simple idea. You have 1 breakfast each day and as much chicken soup as you want during the day.
- Lazy Zone Diet
The zone diet follows a formula. 40% of your calories should come from carbs, 30% from protein, and 30% from fats at EVERY MEAL.
- South Beach Diet
The South Beach diet is a diet plan started by Miami, Florida-area cardiologist Arthur Agatston which emphasizes the consumption of "good carbs" and "good fats". Dr. Agatston developed this diet for his cardiac patients based upon his study of scientific dieting research.
- Chocolate Diet
The chocolate diet mainly consists of liquids and people are given a powder or supplement that they usually blend with milk or water. They may also be given pills to take in capsule form.
- Cambridge Diet
The Cambridge Diet is a low-calorie weight loss plan developed in 1970 by Dr. Alan Howard at Cambridge University, England. The diet formula is intended to harness "the excellent weight loss properties of starvation", while providing enough protein to protect lean tissue, the right level of carbohydrate to promote a mild ketosis (the body's fasting mode, which burns body fat) and eliminate a sense of hunger, and the right levels of vitamins, minerals, trace elements and essential fatty acids to maintain good health. The meals are intended to combine all necessary food groups to satisfy a body’s nutritional needs, in order to allow a person to stop craving foods and overeating.
- Blood Type Diet
The blood type diet is a diet advocated by Peter D'Adamo and outlined in his book Eat Right 4 Your Type. Its basic premise is that ABO blood type is the most important factor in determining a healthy diet. The diet is widely derided by dieticians, physicians, and nutritional scientists as having no scientific basis.
Reference:
Wikipedia - Crash Diet
Crash and Burn: Yo-Yo and Crash Dieting
Fad Diet
Fad Diets
LoveToKnow - Fad Diets
Diet Channel
Featherish - Diet Plans
Daily intake of 4 glasses of skim milk, 4 bananas, and 1 vitamin capsule; a boiled egg may be substituted for a banana.
This diet plan requires the dieter to make a homemade soup chock full of vegetables that’s low in calories. The dieter is supposed to eat this soup as a main staple in their diet for 7 days.
The Special K Diet is a diet plan that the dieter eats Special K cereal with low fat milk twice a day (for breakfast and lunch.)
The three day diet plan is another crash diet that is supposed to help you reduce your weight by minimizing the amount of food you take in for three days.
The 7 Day Diet is a quite risky diet when it comes to your good health and one that we cannot recommend. Basically, the daily menus are based on one food group which leaves nutrition hanging in the wind with a 'Please Help Me Quick Nitwit' sign.
The menu for the grapefruit diet is supposed to provide a jump start to weight loss. Grapefruit has been hailed as the ultimate fat burning fruit.
The Coconut Diet claims that the addition of coconut oil to an eating regime similar will speed weight loss and even enhance thyroid function.
The Shangri-La Diet was created by Seth Roberts, an associate professor of Psychology at the University of California Berkley. Roberts spent years trying to perfect the Shangri-La Diet, using himself as a guinea pig to study the diet's effects.
The basic gimmick of this diet is that you get to eat a slice of bread with butter at every meal.
The Metabolism Diet Plan appears to be more of a starvation plan intended to boost metabolism.
The Russian Air Force Diet is another fad diet that is both strict and low in calories. It was originally developed in the former Soviet Union to keep soldiers fit. The diet has many similarities to the 3-Day Diet, but the difference is that it lasts seven days and has a slightly different menu.
The Atkins diet promises that you will lose weight and not be hungry with a low-carbohydrate diet.
The Scarsdale Diet has been around for some time. Developed by Dr. Herman Tarnower, this diet promises an unreasonable one-pound-per-day weight loss while you limit your food intake to specified amounts of fruits, vegetables and mostly lean sources of protein. It encourages the use of artificial sweeteners and herbal appetite suppressants to speed up weight loss.
Chicken Soup Diet works on a very simple idea. You have 1 breakfast each day and as much chicken soup as you want during the day.
The zone diet follows a formula. 40% of your calories should come from carbs, 30% from protein, and 30% from fats at EVERY MEAL.
The South Beach diet is a diet plan started by Miami, Florida-area cardiologist Arthur Agatston which emphasizes the consumption of "good carbs" and "good fats". Dr. Agatston developed this diet for his cardiac patients based upon his study of scientific dieting research.
The chocolate diet mainly consists of liquids and people are given a powder or supplement that they usually blend with milk or water. They may also be given pills to take in capsule form.
The Cambridge Diet is a low-calorie weight loss plan developed in 1970 by Dr. Alan Howard at Cambridge University, England. The diet formula is intended to harness "the excellent weight loss properties of starvation", while providing enough protein to protect lean tissue, the right level of carbohydrate to promote a mild ketosis (the body's fasting mode, which burns body fat) and eliminate a sense of hunger, and the right levels of vitamins, minerals, trace elements and essential fatty acids to maintain good health. The meals are intended to combine all necessary food groups to satisfy a body’s nutritional needs, in order to allow a person to stop craving foods and overeating.
The blood type diet is a diet advocated by Peter D'Adamo and outlined in his book Eat Right 4 Your Type. Its basic premise is that ABO blood type is the most important factor in determining a healthy diet. The diet is widely derided by dieticians, physicians, and nutritional scientists as having no scientific basis.
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