What fad diets are available ?

Before you start a diet, it is very sensible to talk to a dietician or read about the subject. This way you can decide whether you are being pressed into diets by marketing or going into it with your eyes open.

here's a good starting point

Then when you have read that, you can start to create your own fad diets.

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Of course, you can choose to follow a more famous diets such as :

Atkins diet - is a low carbohydrate method. The avoidance of carbohydrates in your diet is structured to keep your body from adding weight. The method includes eating less than 20 grams of carbohydrates per day. Visit site here - http://www.atkinscenter.com/

Weight watchers diets - program based on calorie-reduction, using the Weight Watchers points system. No foods are forbidden, although you are restricted to a certain number of daily 'points'.

Mastering the Zone - book by Barry Sears, Ph.D.

The Eat Right for Your Type - The Individualised diet solution to staying healthy, living longer and achieving your ideal weight by Peter J. D’Adamo, M.D. - The Eat Right for Your Type diet encourages people to eat certain foods and avoid others based on their blood type -- A, B, AB, or O. Peter J. D'Adamo, ND, the author of Eat Right for Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight, believes blood types affect the digestive system and that some foods good for people of one type are "dangerous" for another. read review here

Sugar Busters!: Cut Sugar to Trim Fat diets
by H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Bethea, M.D., Sam S. Andrews, M.D., Ralph O. Brennan, Luis A. Balart, M.D. Sugar Busters - go to http://www.sugarbusters.com/

Eat More, Weigh Less - by Dean Ornish, M.D. Eat no more than ten percent of your daily calories in the form of fat and eat lots of high-fiber and fresh vegetables. It is basically a vegetarian diet, which will lower your cholesterol, blood pressure and risk of heart disease. read review here

The Pritikin Weight Loss Breakthrough diets - Five Easy Steps to Outsmart Your Fat Instinct by Robert Pritikin. This is a low-fat diet, not vegetarian diet, largely based on vegetables, grains and fruits. Fat in the diet accounts for a mere 10%. Since 1976, more than 70,000 people have spent time at the Pritikin Longevity Centers learning how to eat healthy, prepare low-fat meals and snacks and incorporate exercise and stress-reduction techniques into their lives. read review here

The New Cabbage Soup Diet - by Margaret Danbrot. The Cabbage Soup Diet is based on a fat-burning soup that contains negligible calories. The more soup you eat the more weight you should lose, but do not eat soup only or you will become malnourished. read review here

The Grapefruit Diet - by originator unknown. The grapefruit diet menu involved eating lots of 'fat-burning' grapefruit to kick-start your metabolism, as much black coffee as you liked, some daily protein diets (mainly boiled eggs) and the odd piece of dry toast. the Grapefruit menu

The New Beverly Hills Diet - by Judy Mazel. The "New Beverly Hills Diet" is a type of food combining weight loss diet plan. According to official dietary sources, the "New Beverly Hills Diet" is based upon incorrect theories of digestion. read review here

Neander-Thin: Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body by Ray Audette. "Audette's guiding principle is simple: Do what the cavemen did. If Stone Age man couldn't have speared whatever culinary delight you're about to pop into your mouth or if Neanderthal couldn't have plucked it off a bush, Audette argues you should avoid it, too..." natural diets are what is edible when you are naked with a sharp stick'..Audette's Neander-Thin theories have won praise from professionals." read review here

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