3. Baby Food Diet
Reportedly, celebrity fitness guru Tracy Anderson touted this fad diet to her ultra-famous clientele. The idea is to replace breakfast and lunch with tiny jarred rations of puréed food and then to eat a low-calorie dinner. Sure, babies subsist just fine on tiny, jarred rations of puréed food, and if you’re a grown-up and choose to eat nothing but tiny jars of puréed food, you’ll likely lose the same amount of weight you would if you ate tiny portions of any food. This leaves ease of portion control and the convenience of jarred, prepared food as this regimen’s sole selling point. Granted, it’s free of additives and preservatives, but don’t grown-ups deserve the dignity of using forks? “This diet deprives you of the pleasures of eating real food and is not a good long-term approach to weight loss,” says Levine, adding that it’s much easier — and more civilized — to just up consumption of fruits and vegetables and decrease sodium content.
4. K-E Diet, aka the Feeding-Tube Diet
Talk about extreme! This doctor-affiliated/monitored recent fad diet has you eating via a feeding tube. Yes, a feeding tube. A “very low-calorie, protein- and fat-rich” solution with no carbs whatsoever is pumped through a tube the size of a strand of spaghetti that is inserted through your nose and into your stomach where it empties. Your body goes into ketosis, burning your own fat at a faster pace. “The fact that one would resort to a feeding tube to lose weight is appalling,” says Levine. “This very low-calorie restricted plan is no more effective for short-term weight loss than just restricting your calorie intake of regularly consumed food.” Aside from that, complications from this diet may include constipation, kidney stones, dehydration, dizziness and headaches, and, Levine adds, “a more unhealthy relationship with food.”
5. Sleeping-Beauty Diet
We’ve all heard of sleeping off a hangover or a cold, right? What if you were to sedate yourself into skipping a bunch of meals? Made popular after an honorable mention in the popular ’60s novel “Valley of the Dolls” and Elvis Presley’s rumored participation, this is by far the laziest fad diet of them all. All you have to do is drug yourself unconscious until you wake up thinner days later. Basically, it’s starvation with a side of muscle atrophy, says registered dietitian Erin Palinski-Wade. “Not only can not eating or drinking for days lead to a slower metabolism and dehydration, but the harm you will cause to all of your body’s organs from taking unregulated drugs (or improper use of prescription drugs) can be fatal,” she adds.
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