"Fad" Weight Loss Diet

Obesity is a physical situation that refers to unnecessary body fat. Chances are you have experienced the frustrations of dieting at least once in your life, if you have troubles with your weight. Close to a hundred million Americans go on a weight loss diet in any particular year and up to ninety-five percent of them regain the weight they lose within five years. Worse, a third will gain back more weight than they lost, in jeopardy of "yo-yoing" from one trendy diet to another. The predictable approach to weight problems, focusing on fad weight loss diets or weight loss drugs, may leave you with just as much weight and the additional burden of ill health.

Today, an estimated sixty-five percent of all American adults are obese or overweight. Our society obsesses about staying thin even as we grow fatter, but this isn’t about appearances. Obesity is known to be a precursor to many debilitating health conditions such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, osteoarthritis, and gallbladder disease. Obesity contributes to as many as 375,000 deaths each year. In addition, the public health expenses for obesity are astounding. According to researchers at Harvard University, obesity is a factor in 19% of all cases of heart disease with annual health expenses estimated at 30 billion dollars; it’s also a factor in 57% of diabetes cases, with health costs of $9 billion per year.

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I assume you have fallen for one or more of the weight loss diet schemes over the years, promising rapid and effortless weight loss. Many of these fast weight loss diet programs undermine your health, cause physical distress, flatulence, and at the end of the day lead to frustration when you start regaining weight, shortly after losing it. Fad or quick weight loss diet programs usually go on and on about one type of food. They disregard the basic principle of good nutrition - to remain healthy one must consume a balanced diet, which includes a assortment of foods. Safe, healthy, and permanent weight reduction is what’s actually lost among the thousands of popular diet schemes.

Some of the weight loss diet schemes reign supreme briefly, only to fade out. While some diminish from popularity due to being unproductive or unsafe, some simply lose the public's interest. Examples of such fad diets include the South Beach Diet, Atkins diet, the Grapefruit diet, Cabbage Soup diet, the Rotation diet, Beverly Hills diet – the list goes on and on. These fad diets advocate a specific technique (such as eliminating a certain food, or eating only certain combinations of foods) in combination with the basic idea that the body makes up the difference in energy by breaking down and utilizing some part of itself, in effect converting matter into energy. This self-cannibalism, or catabolism as it is referred, in general starts with breakdown of stored body fat.