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Article: HEART ASSOCIATION ALERTS CONSUMERS TO WAYS OF RECOGNIZING FAD DIETS
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- Sun Publications (IL)
- Article date:
- April 9, 1997
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Recognizing a fad diet isn't that easy.
We all know people who are educated and well-read on nutrition issues -- in particular, the ups and downs of weight management -- who still become spellbound by fad diets.
Remember the recent cabbage soup diet craze?
The American Heart Association provides a list of ways to recognize a fad diet.
Following is a condensed version from -- You'll Know a Fad Diet if it Recommends:
• Magic or miracle foods that burn fat.
Foods don't burn fat -- they create fat when we eat more than we need.
• Bizarre quantities of only one food or type of food, such as eating only tomatoes or beef one day or unlimited bowls of cabbage soup or grapefruit. ...