Breaking up with fad diets
In some cases, fad or restrictive diets seem to work in the initial phase, they even provide the dieter with some exceptional blood work for the first time (possibly not for long), and other times, they help some people instill some good habits. But in most cases, these diets stop working or get people into unhealthy behaviors, illnesses, or malnutrition, if not lead them to regain the weight lost and then some.
Let’s explore why and what can be done about it or instead of. Because anything a fad or restrictive diet can do, balanced optimal nutrition can do better.
Over the years, one thing I’ve been observing in nutrition is that fad diets only become more extreme versions of themselves and are remarketed a few years later, exactly when the previous ones are being ditched because they either stopped working or they weren’t sustainable and sooner or later people run into one issue or another.