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What is a Fad diet? |
Fad diet is any diet that promises fast weight loss without a scientific basis. These diets often eliminate entire food groups and as a result do not provide a wide range of important nutrients. Provide short term results but are difficult to sustain. |
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What is the appeal? |
Fad diets tend to appeal to people’s vanity rather than to their desire to be healthy. |
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Why do they fail long term? |
Fad diets are not sustainable, mentally and physically as not enough nutrients are involved in the diets. |
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Who is responsible? (Cabbage Soup Diet) |
The diet’s origin is unknown although it gained popularity as a piece of faxlore (a type of humorous folklore) in the 1980s. The cabbage soup diet has multiple names, usually linking the diet to a mainstream institution, including “the Sacred Heart Diet”, “Military Cabbage Soup”, “TJ Miracle Soup Diet”, and “Russian Peasant Diet”. All of the institutions named have denied a link with the diet. As a general rule, most if not all forms of the diet emphasize that the dieter can consume as much cabbage soup as he/she wants. |
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Are they suitably qualified |
As the origins are unknown, supposedly not |
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What are the requirements of the Fad? |
The cabbage soup diet is a radical weight loss diet designed around heavy consumption of a low-calorie cabbage soup over the time of seven days. It is generally considered a fad diet, in that it is designed for short-term weight-loss and requires no long term commitment. |
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What is the aim? |
The typical claimed intent of the diet is to lose 10 pounds (4.5kg) of weight in a week, though nutritional experts point out that it is nearly impossible to plose that much fat within a week: much of the weight lost is water. |
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What demographic is targeted? |
Impressionable teens, older women. |
