A Fad Diet is a diet that promises quick weight loss and is harmful for your body by being unhealthy and unbalanced.
One example of a Fad Diet is the Raw Food Diet. Let's make an analysis on the diet:
Who created it and when did they create it?
Ann Wigmore created the diet in the 1900's
What does this diet claim to do? Is this claim supported? How?
It promises to make you lose weight by take out fatty foods that are man-made.
Which foods does your Fad-Diet include/exclude and why?
It only includes fruit, vegetables, and nuts because those foods are perceived as healthier and full of nutrition.
Does your diet have any potential risks and what are they?
Yes; vitamin deficiency, cholesterol problems, less nutrition, and weak bones.
Does this diet promote exercise?
No, this diet doesn't promote exercise.
Find and include information from a recent news article on your Fad-Diet.
A girl named Tiara DeHaan-Palubiak had a severe anorexic disorder. In college, her weight was fine, but she kept saying to herself that she was fat. So she tried everything to become skinny, more diets and diets, especially the Raw Food Diet. This caused her to die because she was too skinny and anorexic.
Include a sample meal play for your Fad-Diet (full day)?
A sample meal play for the Raw Food Diet is:
Breakfast: Fruit or Green smoothie
Snack: Raw nuts and fresh fruit
Lunch: Salad with green leafy vegetables, celery stalks, tomatoes, bell pepper, avocados, and sunflower seed.
Snack: 4 cups of berries or pineapple or 3 peaches.
Dinner: Spinach salad with baby spinach leaves, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, green onions, and onion segments.
Dessert: 10 raw pecans or walnuts and a banana.
Contrast your Fad-Diet to My Plate.
The Raw Food Diet only has a portion of what we're supposed to eat everyday. The diet only includes fruits, vegetables, and nuts but it doesn't have everything that the body needs. The plate has all of these components and proteins and dairies.
Would you recommend this diet to a friend? Why or why not?
No, I would not recommend this diet to a friend because it doesn't have all the components of what are required for our body everyday. We need proteins and fats and dairy products, otherwise or body will not be strong enough with just fruits, veggies, and nuts.
Works Cited:
Dailymail.com, Miranda Bryant For. "'I Was a Skeleton; My Body Started Shutting Down': Anorexic Who Lost 45lbs in Just Nine Months Shares Harrowing Details about How the 'deadly' Eating Disorder Nearly Killed Her ." Mail Online. Associated Newspapers, 27 Apr. 2016. Web. 03 May 2016.
"Raw Food Diet Review: Benefits, What You Eat, & More." WebMD. WebMD. Web. 03 May 2016.
US News. U.S.News & World Report. Web. 03 May 2016.
"Raw Food Diet Meal Plans." LoveToKnow. Web. 03 May 2016. .