Can you spot a fad diet?

12/04/2010 by admin.

Fad diets tend not to offer a healthy and balanced lifestyle going forward and don’t teach you to eat a healthy diet.  They often favour low carbohydrate intake and are frequently high in protein or fat. Fad diets offer fast weight loss, however so often the early weight loss is water and not fat.  These diets are rigid in content and lack the nutritional balance required for a healthy lifestyle.  These diets play on your emotions by suggesting there is a quick fix but don’t address the long term issues and long term lifestyle changes which need to be made. 

There is no beating a healthy lifestyle comprising a well balanced diet, including a variety of fruits and vegetables, grains, lean meat and fish.  Your diet should be low in saturated and trans fats, ie no more than 10% of your total diet.  20% of your diet should contain monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, these are contained in oily fish, nuts, seeds, olive oil and avocados.   Add to a good diet, physical activity whereby your heart rate is raised 3 times a week for approximately 30 minutes, which speeds up your metabolism as well as provides plenty of health benefits.

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