Free Fad Diets

The advent of internet has made information available to virtually anyone who would care to surf it. For a person seeking to lose weight without spending a dime on programs, the internet provides a veritable source of how to’s and suggestions. Here are examples of fad diets one can explore with just a click of a mouse.

The Cabbage Soup Diet

As the name suggest, the main food to be taken by its followers is cabbage soup. Though this diet does not advocate long-term adherence, eating cabbage soup as main part of the meal would somehow be too much for most to stand. Since cabbage is a vegetable notoriously low in calories, this diet is also physiologically dangerous, not to mention gastronomically uninspiring.

The 7-Day Diet

This diet presents a list of food that one should strictly follow and eat for seven days. The problem here is that the different web sites I visited recommended a slight variation of food for a given day, except for the avoidance of bananas on the first day. People who tried this diet reported feeling weak and fatigue, which is understandable since it advocated eating mostly just fruits and vegetables, a poor source of calorie needed for the body to maintain its function.

The Blood Type Diet

This diet was formulated and advocated by Dr. Peter D’Adamo who claims that the most important diet determinant is your blood type. In his program, he outlined the food that should be taken and avoided by people with different blood types. Basically, type O should stick to a diet full of red meat and avoid wheat, type A should go vegetarian with a little fish and chicken, type B is allowed almost all basic food with a few exceptions and type AB should eat a combination of food eaten by type A and B. It’s probably worth mentioning that those in the know had derided D’Adamo’s diet for lack of scientific merit. But hey, it’s a free world, right?

The Grapefruit Diet

This diet has been around since the 1980s and bases its claims on the fat-burning properties of grapefruit. The proponents advocate eating any type of food you want as long as you eat half a grapefruit or drink 8 ounces of its unsweetened juice every meal. A study was even conducted in 2004 at the Scripps Clinic in California to prove that grapefruit really does induce weight loss. However, experts are expressing caution over the type of food eaten with grapefruit as it is important that along with this fruit, you take in a variety of food to achieve balance nutrition.

The South Beach Diet

This diet’s attractive name has made it one of the most popular fad diets in recent years. Formulated by a cardiologist, this program advocates on eating food containing good carbohydrates and fats. It instructs its followers to eliminate insulin resistance through the avoidance of high-glycemic carbohydrates like sugar, candy, grains, and cereals. This diet promises weight loss of up to 13 pounds in the first two weeks. Attractive prospect this may be to those desperately seeking to lose unwanted weight, there is still the big possibility of gaining back those pounds throughout the course of the diet.

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