fad diets
Fleeting weight plans
Fad diets are weight-loss plans that gain sudden popularity, often promising dramatic results through unusual restrictions or gimmicks.
They typically eliminate entire food groups, focus on single "miracle" foods, or follow rigid rules with little scientific support.
Most prove unsustainable: She tried every fad diet—cabbage soup, grapefruit, keto—before just eating sensibly.
The term is usually dismissive, implying the diet is trendy rather than sound.
- paleoAncestral-foods diet
- weight lossReduction in body mass
- AtkinsCarbohydrate-restricting eating plan
- dietitiansFood and nutrition experts
- intermittent fastingScheduled cycles of eating and abstaining
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- eating habitsvegetarian, vegan, omnivore, carnivore, pescatarian
- money wasterslottery tickets, gambling losses, payday loans, overdraft fees, late fees
- risky behaviorreckless driving, drunk driving, speeding, drug abuse, binge drinking
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Varied nutritional intake
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Traditional southern European eating pattern
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