Fad Diets

Review of Mastercleanse Secrets

When a friend told me about a new, exciting ‘lemonade diet’ over the phone, I had to stop myself from laughing into the receiver. Yeah right! I had tried diet after diet after diet and nothing worked – now she wanted me to drink lemonade? I totally forgot about this diet until she came to stay with us one weekend. She lived three hours away and we didn’t get to see each other very often. When she got out of her car I almost didn’t recognize her. Not only was she pounds and pounds thinner, but she looked 10 years younger. My jaw dropped. I had to get her secret.

Only, it wasn’t a secret she blamed this new slim body and youthful look on. It was that lemonade diet I had laughed about! When I began researching it, I realized that it’s not really called the lemonade diet. It’s called the Master Cleanse. I read some of the information about it on the internet and it sounded quite legitimate. The information explained how the diet worked and how the toxins and waste builds in our bodies from years and years of neglect. The Master Cleanse Diet helps you pass this waste and get rid of it, becoming healthier and healthier looking.

This all sounded wonderful to me, so I began this diet. While it does help you lose weight, it also cleanses your system of the harmful toxins that build within your body over the years. Because of this, when I tried the master cleanse secrets, I felt so much better! I stopped experiencing the every day aches, pains and frustrations that I was so accustomed to feeling! I can’t tell you how amazing it was to truly feel great and young again.

The first week I started the Master Cleanse program, I lost an average of 1 to 2 pounds a day! While I took full advantage of this diet and lost all the extra weight I had been carrying around and being resentful about, it’s not the most important thing that happened to me. I had been battling depression for years. I kept thinking there was something in my life that I simply wasn’t happy with. What I learned was that our glandular system is affected when we carry around all these toxins. This is one of the reasons that many people feel depressed, tired and sluggish and unhappy so much! I was absolutely ecstatic when I began to feel less depressed, more energetic and completely content.

The Master Cleanse was helping my body get healthier and my mind! I noticed the huge differences, my husband noticed the huge differences and all of my friends and co-workers noticed the huge differences. In fact, I was so impressed that I decided to tell you about this diet! It is the best thing I’ve ever invested in and hands down the best diet I’ve ever tried. I highly recommend the Master Cleanse plan to anyone.

Even if you’re not overweight, just cleansing your body of the toxins is worth the diet! I am happier, younger looking and slimmer than I’ve been in years and I’m incredibly happy!

American Health Organizations Vs Fad Diets

With numerous fad diets coming out in recent years, it’s no wonder a lot of people get confused on what to follow. Data had shown that the average American is getting heavier and it’s understandable that most of them would want to shed off those extra baggage. After all, who wouldn’t want to be fit and trim? But following these fad diets blindly is just as dangerous as staying obese. A person considering on joining a fad diet program ought to be armed with sufficient knowledge on proper nutrition so as to aid in the diet selection process. Sadly, most of the fad diets available in the market today do not include the achievement of balanced nutrition in their repertoire.

The American Heart Association (AHA) recently released its guideline for improving diet and lifestyle with the primary goal of reducing the risk for cardiovascular diseases. In a nutshell, it promotes the achievement of your ideal body weight, control of your levels of LDL and HDL cholesterol and triglycerides, normalizing your blood pressure, maintaining a healthy level of blood glucose, being active, and avoidance of smoking. Though the guideline did not specifically mention any fad diets, it recommends the intake a lot of fluids, fruits and vegetables along with high-fiber foods, whole grains and fish at least twice a week. It suggests the reduction of saturated fat intake and eating only lean meats and low-dairy products. Beverages and food with added sugars must also be limited.

The recommendations made by the AHA are certainly sensible but the fad diet industry still has a huge following due to its promise of almost instant gratification with absence of demand for lifestyle changes. The willingness for some to try some of these diets often leads to disappointment, waste of money, and adverse effects on health.

The American Dietetics Association dispels several myths associated with dieting with the release of their own guidelines. Here, the organization rejects the notion that there is a type of food that will make one lose weight, like grapefruit or cabbage. A person still needs variety in his diet to function properly and all these fad diets ever do is lower your caloric intake. The same can be said on diets advocating the increased intake of protein-rich food while reducing all the others. Caution should also be exercised if one is taking fiber supplements as this can lead to dehydration and constipation if one doesn’t drink plenty of fluids. One must also bear in mind that low calorie liquid diet was formulated under strict physician supervision and must only be used under the same condition. Use of these products indiscriminately will cause some unpleasant effects on your health.

So, before you decide on taking on a dietary program, make sure you completely understand its concepts and its proponents really know what they’re talking about. Always include enough exercise in your daily activities, as this is the only proven way to lose weight. Do steer away from fad diets that make overblown and fantastic claims of weight loss as more often than not, it’s just pure air.

The 3 Day Diet

A lot of fad diets out there claim to give dieters the needed weight loss in short time. Needless to say, the 3 day diet offers the shortest time possible, 10 pounds off in 3 days. Wow! Now, if only that is true. Still, for those of you interested in this short-term program, let me present the full menu plan.

Day 1 -Breakfast

• black coffee or tea, with artificial sweeteners
• 1/2 grapefruit or juice
• 1 toast with 1 tbsp peanut butter

Lunch

• 1/2 cup tuna
• 1 toast
• black coffee or tea, with artificial sweeteners

Dinner

• 3 oz. lean meat or chicken
• 1 cup green beans
• 1 cup carrots
• 1 apple
• 1 cup regular vanilla ice cream

Day 2 -Breakfast

• black coffee or tea, with artificial sweeteners
• 1 egg
• 1/2 banana
• 1 toast

Lunch

• 1 cup cottage cheese or tuna
• 8 regular saltine crackers

Dinner

• 2 beef franks
• 1 cup broccoli or cabbage
• 1/2 cup carrots
• 1/2 banana
• 1/2 cup regular vanilla ice cream

Day 3 -Breakfast

• black coffee or tea, with artificial sweeteners
• 5 regular saltine crackers
• 1 oz. cheddar cheese
• 1 apple

Lunch

• 1 boiled egg
• 1 toast
• black coffee or tea, with artificial sweeteners

Dinner

• 1 cup tuna
• 1 cup carrots
• 1 cup cauliflower
• 1 cup melon
• 1/2 cup regular vanilla ice cream

The above recommended meal plan entails that the dieter would be restricted to about 600 caloric intake per day, well below the amount needed by the body. The dieter would probably experience dehydration, as water is not part of the diet plan. The weight shed during this period might just be attributed to the body fluid you lost. Carbohydrates, the source of calories, contribute to the necessary function of retaining body fluid. Furthermore, the meal plan is strictly controlled and doesn’t allow variation. This is ideal only for those who don’t easily give in to hunger pangs, which might be the continuous state you’ll be in during the prescribed three days.

Following the days of strict diet, one might be prone to food bingeing to answer the body’s clamor for more food. Needless to say, this would just put those three days of gastronomic torture to waste. Then you would undergo what others would term the “yo-yo” diet. You put back on the weight you needed to lose in the first place, which would spur you to diet again, which would cause you to binge and gain weight again, and thus the cycle goes on and on…

Nobody can really say just how effective the 3 day diet is (or the other fad diets, for that matter). There might be even some out there who would testify to its efficacy. Still, the only way to lose weight safely is to lose it slowly. That way, the body can adjust to the state you want it in and there would be no more physiological impetus for you to eat more than what is needed. When a person binges on food after a period of semi-starvation, it is the body’s way of saying that it needs food urgently to survive.