~Help with a Project for College~

[KT27]

I am taking a nutrition class and have to write a paper on Fad Diets. Please list any fad diets that you can think of or tried in the past. Thanks!

 

[WeirdEyes]

Cabbage Soup diet

 

[KelNottAt]

Grapefruit diet

 

[lucky978]

How about Atkins, The Zone and South Beach?

In my late teens, I once did the "Chinese Tea" diet. Basically it was a tea bag with laxatives. Not good.

 

[Darcy03231]

The Metabolism Diet

The 3 Day Diet

Take a look at www.faddiet.com. They list quite a few of the most popular ones there.

 

[Toby'sFriend]

http://www.faddiet.com/

 

[java]

My Mom speaks of the Lemon Life Saver diet- but I think she made that one up. She would eat only lemon life savers for a week at a time. (Hello and I wonder why I have food issues! )

 

[tnkr_bell]

A friend of mine at work the the Rice Diet for a while.

 

[Daxx]

The Scarsdale Diet

The "I don’t eat anything and when I feel like I’m about to faint I eat a cube of cheese" diet from "The Devil Wears Prada". Actually, I don't think this counts but I found it funny in the movie!

 

[golfgal]

A guy I knew in collge did an M&M and beer diet for a research project. When his hair started falling out his prof made him stop. Does that count?

 

[powellrj]

I did the Aids (candy) Diet back in the 70's, where you would eat a piece of Aids candy with a cup of tea before each meal, I did Dexta-trim once and the last one I did was the apple diet where you eat an apple before each meal. By day 2 I HATED apples!

I have also done No Carbs, grapefruit, WW

 

[DawnCt1]

Here is a cute web site
http://www.faddiet.com/

 

[I Love Pluto]

The grapefruit diet

The "one-meal-every-other-day" diet (popular in the 1960's with college students)

Also popular in the 60's - the soup diet - another college favorite.

 

[briar_rose_59]

What was that one that Beyonce did for Dreamgirls? She only drank this mixture of lemon juice, hot sauce and a couple other things. I had to start skipping over articles about it because the thought of the mixture made me gag.

ETA: Apparently it's called the Master Cleanse diet, though it goes by a couple other names.
"water mixed with lemon, maple syrup and cayenne pepper."

 

[Crazoo]

Atkins was pretty big... there was the whole low-carb craze a few years back.