Fad diets are useless for weight loss

Fad diets are weight-loss plans that promise quick, dramatic weight loss.

Fad diets rarely help with long-term weight loss, and can even be dangerous to your health, the American Academy of Family Physicians says.

Here are the AAFP's suggestions for how to recognize a diet that promises more than it delivers:

- Diets that promise to help you lose more than one to two pounds a week.
- Diets that promise weight loss without a healthy diet low in fatty foods.
- Diets that base claims on "before and after" photos that show dramatic weight loss.
- Diets that pitch testimonials from users or so-called experts.
- Diets that focus on only one type of food, and don't encourage a healthy, balanced diet.
- Diets that require you to spend a lot of money on different slimming pills, seminars or prepared foods.

Via cbc.ca

It's really goos conclusion from authority organisation to help you understand that fad diets are more like a "product" people "buy" in their strive for some quick weight loss results. Most of fad diets, like most of other weight loss products, do promise exactly what you want - quick results.

Fortunately, weight loss success is not unachievable miracle and you can lose weight and become slimmer - just be patient and persistive and follow proven techniques!