https://doi.org/10.51514/JSTR.2.1.2020.12-15
Sadhna M. Singh, Aarti Malhosia and Nitu Singh
ABSTRACT
Fad Diet is a fashionable and trendy diet that is popular for a particular time period with very strict restrictions of some specified nutrients. Such diet gains their popularity through television, magazine, friends and family. These diets basically applicable for weight loss, quickly fixes the problem like magic. This is primarily because fad diets are unsustainable. As fad diets are strictly on restriction of some specified food stuff. This means when the diet is over, one is inevitably return back to their original eating style – the style that helped to put on all that weight. This review paper concluded that fad diets are really only good for helping you to lose weight quickly for a special occasion. But if you are looking for long term successful weight loss then you want to actually commit to a good diet and exercise program.
Keywords: Fad diets, weight loss, restricted nutrients etc.