Body image is something that affects people globally, especially women and young adults. People are willing to try a variety of methods to achieve their weight loss goals, some of which are extreme. Fad diets are a common method to lose weight and generally consist of restricted meal plans and lifestyle regimes to either burn more fat or stop the fat going on in the first place. Fad diets come in many shapes and sizes and are often very unhealthy. In many cases they can cause negative health effects. Examples of these are dangerous diets such as ‘the tapeworm diet’, highly calorie-restricted diets such as ‘the lemonade diet’ and ‘the five bite diet’, and hormone based diets such as the ‘HCG diet’.
The tapeworm diet works by essentially