Before you spend any money on a fad diet, read this first. Because your fad diet may be making you fat.
It’s time to retire three bogus fad diets, which not only do not work, but can also be quite dangerous if followed for too long. Studies consistently show that the vast majority of weight lost–particularly on fad diets– is regained. Why? For one thing, to cope with an ultra-low calorie diet, your body goes into starvation mode and down-shifts its metabolism. When that happens, weight re-gain is likely to ensue even at lower calorie levels than before when regular food intake resumes. Either way the proof is in the numbers. The diet industry is a $ 60 billion industry, but all that money spent on the ever-growing number of quick-fix diet books, foods and products available has certainly not translated into results: the number of overweight and obese Americans has been steadily growing for the past few decades and remains at an all-time high.
Read on to learn about three of today’s bogus fad diets…
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