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December 13th, 2008

?Crash weight loss plans and fad diets are an unwise alternative to permanent healthy eating habits, according to the American Heart Association.

What is a fad diet? It’s a well marketed diet with some miracle scheme to lose weight in an impossible manner, often by eating nothing but one food like a cabbage.

One food or one type of food is generally overemphasized with fad quick weight loss diets. They don’t include a variety of foods or good balance, a violation of the first principle of good nutrition, eat a balanced diet that includes a variety of foods. Because no one food has all the nutrients required for good health, these diets can result in a lot of health problems. One such diet is the Cabbage Soup Diet. The myth of this diet is that cabbage soup is some sort of fat dissolving potion. The diet supposedly helps heart patients lose 10–17 pounds in seven days before surgery. On top of not working to lose weight, this diet lacks essential nutrients and can cause serious health issues. Pixies, elves and fairies, or even cabbages, can’t provide magical weight loss. That’s why you should eat moderate amounts from each of the food groups rather than cutting out everything but a cabbage and water.

These crazy diets also violate a second important principle of good nutrition which is that eating should be enjoyable.. It’s impossible to stay on these diets for a long time because they’re so bland. Consider a week on the Cabbage Soup Diet. By Wednesday you’d dread meal time, and by Friday you’d never again want to hear about a cabbage much less eat the soup. They’d carry you away in a straight jacket by week’s end.

There are many other ways fad diets aren’t good for you. Most don’t talk about exercise, such as aerobics for 30 minutes a day every day. Physical activity helps maintain weight loss, while physical inactivity is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. When a diet includes no need for a workout, run the other way.

Quick weight loss is possible. But if a program sounds too good to be true, it is.

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