The truth about fad diets

Abstract

Fad diets are everywhere. If you believed what various celebrities and women9s magazines are preaching, high protein diets, detox diets, food combining diets and such like are the saviours of the Western world--here to save us from becoming fat. Perhaps you have been tempted to try one yourself or know of friends, relatives, or patients who are on them. We do need all the help we can get as obesity rates are climbing like never before. But what happened to good old fashioned healthy eating? Too boring and not trendy enough? We asked Sarah Schenker, a nutrition scientist at the British Nutrition Foundation, to shed some light on the subject