Recently there has been a lot of hullabaloo about all the
upcoming fad diets. It has been the latest fad to go for fad
diets and follow a regime whose pros and cons are hardly
known or made known. Basically, they are merely a way to
lose weight in no time, say, crash diets. They are meant for
short periods and claim that without any physical activity
only a controlled diet can ensure weight loss. By and large,
these fad diets can be divided into few notable categories,
which are described below. Most of them restrict you to have
carbohydrates and suggest low-fat and low-carb diets. This
brings general weakness to your body and you may loose
weight as much but will not be healthy anymore.

Mainly, fad diet can be:

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.

Another not so healthy fad diet is the cabbage soup diet.
It restricts you to one certain food for a number of days,
which, again, denies your body of the vitamins it needs.
The ice cream diet falls into this category as well;
although it sounds tempting, one cannot expect to be healthy
eating just one source of food and expect your body to stay
energized and fully functional.

High intake of protein diets may give good and satisfying
outputs but may cause serious damage to your system. Such
diets claim that high dose of proteins will help you reduce
weight and build good muscles. Do not trust this claim.
Muscles are only built under careful weight training; even
doctors agree to this. High protein can cause serious
damages to liver and kidney.

Diets like Atkins are very low-carb diets and are designed
to exclude whole grains from the meal. This will reduce the
intake of fibers and roughage in the diet; hence the body
will not get the required minerals, magnesium and thiamine.
In the absence of dairy products, there will be no calcium
and Vitamin D. Absence of fruits and starchy vegetables will
reduce the inclusion of Vitamin A, C and Potassium. Hence,
if you are a physically active person, and your routine
includes exercise, this kind of regime is not suitable for
your body.

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