...prior assignments. 1) This topic is important to me because throughout my life I have constantly researched different diets, hoping to find one that will help me lose weight and keep it off. With this research I hope to find one that not only help me lose weight, but also begin a new life style. 2) As a result of the on again, off again weight gain I began to see myself as a failure, and also as a fat person who could not keep the weight off. Through this research I am hoping to find not a diet but a life style that is healthily. I hope to be able to recognize a Fad diet as soon as I see one, and be able to educate my friend and family on this matter. Who is your primary audience or reader? Why? Be detailed in your answer about your audience. 1) The targeted audience would be people looking for a quick fix diet, maybe the girl that needs to get into that little black dress this weekend or the boy that will go swimming for the first time with a new girlfriend and wants to look slimmer fast. 2) I believe my secondary audience would be people like myself that just want a diet that works and are looking for new ways to lose weight. Not a quick fix, but a diet that is not very difficult and keeps the weight off. 3) I think the majority of my targeted audience would agree with me, even though the truth hurts. Fad diets are not healthy and are indeed a quick fix. But, people sometimes want to believe otherwise, even though the proof is presented to...
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...Fad Diets 6:00 a.m. the alarms goes off, but this morning Cindy gets out of bed excited and anxious. Today is Friday, time to weight herself and track the progress from her new fad diet. It’s been a long three weeks, eating small portions, bland food, but begrudgingly, Cindy stick strictly to the plan. “This” time she is determine to lose weight. Weight loss from the first two weeks encouraged Cindy to buy more of their products in an effort to continue the weight loss and vary her meal options. 12lbs lost, surely adding their diet supplements and snacks will speed the process along. Time for the big moment, Cindy steps on the scale waits patiently as the digitals cycle thru and then the results. Confused Cindy steps off the scale, moves it to a different spot and tries again; only to see the same numbers looking back at her. Only 2lbs lost. How can this be, she ate only their food, and took their supplements. She had painstakingly followed their guidelines. Once again, frustrated and defeated, Cindy gives up on the plan. These claims gave Cindy a false sense of hope in believing that she did not have to put in the work required in order to obtain a healthy lifestyle. Thousands of consumers share the same experience as Cindy every day; buying into the promise of rapid weight loss and investing hundreds to thousands of dollars a year into the latest and greatest new fad diet. Life can be hard, shaming, and frustrating so no more adding to the complication by restricting...
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...The Skinny on Fad Diets Jessica Johnson DeVry University FAD DIETS You had to stay over at work, pick up the kids, taking them to their various activities, running through the drive through for a quick meal, and begin to unwind on the couch. You could have gone for a walk on your lunch break, hit the gym after work, and made a well-balanced meal for all to eat at the dinner table but with deadlines, a demanding job, and a family to raise with an even crazier schedule; by the end of the day you are beat. However, those extra thirty pounds are just sitting there, waiting to be shed. One day, a thought occurs to seek out a solution, naturally this leads to the internet. A quick Google search and you are now being overloaded with a list of diets, pills, and drinks that will completely change your life around. All without having to rearrange your daily planner to make the life style changes needed for healthy weight loss. Sites with stories of “I lost 20 pounds in the first 2 weeks on diet ABC.” or “Diet XYZ gave me energy to accomplish everything I wanted in the day, while becoming and looking like the person that I want to be.” In other words, the search has brought up results on fad diets. As the schedules of Americans become more and more jam packed, the rate of becoming an unhealthy adult is rising. Currently 69% of Americans are overweight or obese (Jadhav, 2010). Stress from family life, a job, and a tight schedule has a way of causing one to gain weight and having...
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...Dieting Fad vs. Healthy Eating Trend Amanda Smith COM/155 UNIVERSITY COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION I April 20th 2014 University of Phoenix Are you a food fad victim or a healthy trendsetter? Don’t jump on the bad diet ban wagon. Healthy eating is just that, healthy. Healthy eating is a safe life change with positive and lasting results. If losing weight is the goal, short lived fads will leave short live results. The only long term results from dieting is possible health problems. It is better to stick with proven nutrition trends to lose weight, because dieting fads can cause more harm than good. So what makes one way of eating a fad and the other trend? A fad is any form of behavior that develops among large populations and is collectively followed enthusiastically for a time. The behavior will normally fade quickly once the perception of novelty is gone.* Popular diets follow this same description. They become very popular through mass media, social networks and word of mouth as the new wonder diet. Dieters rave about the mass amount of weight that they lose in such a short time. Everyone eager to lose a few pounds joins the craze enthusiastically, in hopes the miracle diet will work. This popularity hits its peak when the weight loss plateaus or the restrictions become too much to follow. The diet fizzles and is replaced by the new “amazing diet” in line. They cannot maintain their reputation because the results never last for one reason or another...
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...addict that depends on drugs or alcohol. Many people find themselves looking for a way to lose the added pounds. Proper Nutrition and regular exercise provide a healthier lifestyle compared to extreme exercise routines and fad diets. If you are one of many people that wake up one morning, look in the mirror and decide that it is time to take action. There are two methods to lose weight; the first is proper nutrition and regular exercise, and the second, would be multiple fad diets and extreme exercise programs. Another outlook on these two methods would be to say the right way and the wrong way. Both methods help with achieving weight loss, however only one is the proper method. One might ask what the difference is, the goal is to lose weight and be healthy. Proper nutrition and regular exercise is a lifestyle change, whereas the use of fad diets and extreme work out programs is just a temporary solution. We all want to be more fit and get a clean bill of health from our doctors and I am about to tell you the best way to do this. Applying a lifestyle change by incorporating a balanced diet and at least 30 minutes of regular exercise daily promotes many benefits over today’s fad diets and extreme exercise programs. Balanced diet simply means following the food pyramid, by getting plenty of fruits and vegetables, avoiding red meat and eating more fish and poultry, avoiding...
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...according to cdc.gov, “More than one-third of U.S. adults (35.7%) are obese” (cdc.gov, 2012). Many people try quick ways to lose weight such as having plastic surgery or by consuming over the counter diet supplements that contain Green-T or other supplements that claim to “burn metabolism” or “curb fat”. Exercising and eating healthy foods is more beneficial to long term weight loss than crash diets or plastic surgery. The Centers for Disease control states on their website that, “When it comes to weight loss, there's no lack of fad diets promising fast results. But such diets limit your nutritional intake, can be unhealthy, and tend to fail in the long run” (cdc.gov, Healthy Weight-it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle, 2011). Many people don’t realize those years of living a sedentary lifestyle causes weight gain that happens slowly but consistently and that the same way it took time to gain that weight, it also takes time and discipline to lose that weight and keep it off effectively. “The key to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight isn't about short-term dietary changes. It's about a lifestyle that includes healthy eating, regular physical activity, and balancing the number of calories you consume with the number of calories your body uses” (cdc.gov, Healthy Weight-it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle, 2011). A sedentary lifestyle consists of things such as; playing video games for hours, watching television for hours at a time, using the computer to play games or surf...
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...Theme: Health and Wellness Topic: Fad Diets 1. What is your possible topic? Fad Diets: how dangerous can be fad diets to your health in short and long term? If fad diets are dangerous why are they so popular? If I want to lose weight which is the best way to do it? Are there any record of illnesses cause by this type of diet? Are some of these diets true and the mainstream are saying us that they are dangerous for our health? 2. How is the topic important to you and how does it affect you? What do you personally hope to gain or accomplish by writing about this topic? I pick this topic because I study medicine when I was in my country, and I always believe in the occidental medicine, but working in a coronary ICU unit I saw a good amount of people with cardiac problems but I never thought about diet, and I do believe in exercise; now I have been reading about diets for a year and I am pretty sure that a great percent of all the diseases are created for us in the desmesurable way that we eat. Then we gain weight in the same way that we eat, afterwards we want to lose all that weight to fast, and some of us decide the easy way Fad diets. I was affected because I use to play sports (basketball), one day playing with my kids I had a meniscus tear I passed like 8 month taking pills for pain and nothing, started a physical therapy exercises and nothing help me to feel free of pain, at that point I decided to reduce the amount of carbs on my diet drastically, eat more fat and moderate...
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...Fad Diets versus Healthy Life Style Changes Valerie Heintz Fad Diets versus Healthy Life Style Changes A commitment to a lifestyle change is needed to become healthy. The following essay will help give you a better understanding of why fad diets are not the answer for becoming healthy. Most fad diets and healthy lifestyle changes are both based on reducing the number calories that you take in every day. Unlike healthy lifestyle changes fad diets usually recommend severely reducing the number of calories below the recommend daily amount. According to the Medical New Today website http://www.medicalnewstoday.com, the average adult male should consume approximately 2,500 calories a day to maintain his weight and 2,000 calories for an average adult female. These numbers can change depending on age, gender and the amount of physical activity a person performs daily. In the past I have gone on several fad diets that were asking you to reduce your calorie intake to as low as 600 calories a day, way below the recommended amount. Yes you will reduce your weight quickly, but you will also be losing muscle tone as well and as soon as you increase your calorie intake the weight will come back on. Some fad diets have you eliminate certain foods from your diets. For instance the South Beach diet wants you to eliminate certain fruits like pineapples, watermelon, and raisins because they are higher in sugar. On the Medifast Diet they are asking you to eat 5 of their Medifast products...
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...Fad Diet Activity- 20 points Each student will sign up for a fad diet from the list provided in lecture. Students will research the diet and write a one and a half page MINIMUM summary/overview of that diet. The summary should include: ● Health claims/how it works ● Requirements of the diet (what foods to eat/not eat, calories, etc) ● Pros and Cons - Do you think people can lose weight on this diet? - Is it a practical diet? Why or why not? - What are the potential problems associated with this diet? - Any interesting facts/thoughts you would like to mention Please find a minimum of 2 reliable (where applicable) sources from medical sources or sites that have credentialed authors. Wikipedia is not a reliable source but may be a good place to find key words and other sources to investigate. Some diets do NOT have professional/medically-backed sites. Do the best that you can- I know which ones they are! Sources should be cited by the APA format (see attached examples). Print a copy of your summary and source list to hand in to the instructor at the BEGINNING of class on the due date. Print another copy for you to reference as you tell the class about the diet you researched. Be prepared to answer questions. Your heading at the top of your paper should look like this... NAME DATE/ TIME Begin typing your fad diet information here.... Alexandria Lewis 8.29.15/ 11:00 Class Tapeworm Diet How It Works How would you like to ingest...
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...The three diets that are suggested by the dietary Guidelines for America are the USDA food Patterns (which is what the MyPlate is based on), the DASH eating plan, and the Mediterranean eating pattern. All these diets consist of a base of fruits and vegetables, and combination of grains, proteins and dairy. The USDA Food Pattern diet consists of an amount of food from each food group based on a calorie amount that follows the MyPlate guidelines and recommendations. The DASH eating plan, emphasis eating food high in potassium, calcium, magnesium, fiber and low in sodium, red meats and sugar. It suggests eating plenty of vegetables, fruits, grains, fist, poultry, nuts, grains, and seeds. This diet was created in mind for the population who has high blood pressure and it is geared towards preventing heart disease and stroke. The last of these three diets is the traditional Mediterranean eating pattern which consists of plant based products. This eating...
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...resolution to begin a strict diet to lose weight and be healthier. Every year, many of those same people chose a one-size-fits-all fad diet and flunk out with in just a few short months, with some calling it quits within weeks. The truth is there is no such thing as the perfect diet for all consumers, yet we still follow the media, celebrities, and coworkers down the road of the most popular fad diet that promises the quickest gains. In the end we spend billions of dollars on these diets and all the accessories that come with them, such as expensive gym memberships and hyped up supplements, and the results are minimal at best. Dieting in America has become a mainstream, profit generating habit that can be unhealthy and costly; educating the public on alternative eating habits and supplemental lifestyle choices can lead to healthier individuals and outweigh the marginal benefits of dieting alone. American’s are competitive by nature, and never want to be left behind. Mainstream dieting has been around for decades, growing more and more popular as our ways to reach out to more consumers grow. I can remember being a child, listening to my mother and aunts discuss New Year’s resolutions that always included dieting. Back then we only had the evening news, newspapers, and telephones. Today we cannot escape the onslaught of social media, and one would be lucky to maneuver the checkout line at CVS without picking up a magazine listing the hottest diet, offered by the hottest model...
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... 2013 How can diets work in order to obtain ultimate health? While researching books and articles about nutrition and diets, I found something very interesting that almost all the authors had in common. 95 percent of the authors of the books and articles I researched were obese at certain point of their lives and had tried many types of modern diets such as Atkins, South Beach, Ornish, Zone, the blood type diet, detoxing, the cookie diet-I and etc… without any long term good results. “Every year we are offered new diets, new books on dieting, and new weight-loss programs” (Katharine 1). So, I started researching about vary types of diets, how they function, how they are designed, and if it really fits all people. I researched about genetics, because I wanted to know if it has anything to deal with our health and if it has any influence in our gain of weight. I’ve noticed that when a mother and a father are obese usually the kids also tend to become obese. “Many Americans, including health care professionals and citizens alike, continue to gaze in the wrong direction” (Katherine 2). My goal with this paper is to find what would be the ideal diet and how we could live in a healthy lifestyle and never gain all the weight back! To reach this goal I have organized this paper in three main sections. In the first section, I provide an account of information about our genetics and how we can use that information in order to understand better human body and diets. In the second section...
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...Research suggests obesity in America is an epidemic because of people’s diet, lifestyle, and genetic inheritance. Obesity is a chronic disease that can and will seriously affect one’s health. Health professionals agree that obesity has now reached epidemic status in our country. Over one third of American adults are obese. Obesity also affects children and is more prevalent now than in previous years. And the numbers are increasing. Diet and nutrition play a major role in the United States epidemic of obesity. Although it is very complex especially when Americans are sent mixed messages on what to eat and how much they should eat. On one hand, you have packaged processed food, bigger portions and fast food meals that are marketed as all American. The food is delicious and filling but fast and cheap. On the other hand, Americans spend almost twenty billion dollars every year on the newest weight loss fads, from weight loss drugs to books on the newest weight loss diet to weight loss surgeries like gastric bypass, lap-bands and Hollywood’s favorite, liposuction. Everyone is looking for everything fast. Fast-food, and fast weight loss options. We spend more time at work to pay for all the fast stuff in our lives instead of spending time at home and in our own kitchens cooking nutritious meals for our whole family like our parents did fifty years ago. (Overeaters Anonymous, 1980) This crazy relationship Americans have with food is easy to explain in terms of schemes in marketing...
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...find that out. The truth is, the typical American diet is by no means healthy at all. If you consider what the average American eats in a day or evaluate what is considered nourishing by the FDA, you will notice some vague and confusing evidence. In order to truly be rid ourselves of such diseases and unhealthy lifestyles, veganism is the...
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...commercial for a chair that promises to give you firmer abs just by sitting on it. Almost every adult in America is on some sort of diet. Growing up I swear every single diet plan to ever gain popularity wound up in my basement. My mother was a diet fad-follower. She tried everything; Jenny Craig, Atkins, Slim4life, ediet.com, weight watchers, nutra-system, even hypnotism. You can name any diet and she tried it. Even exercise equipment. Anything guaranteed to give you a rockin’ body was bought, tried, and forgotten in the basement. So yeah, as you can guess, nothing worked for my mother. And I grew up knowing that diets fail. So just my luck, a couple years into college, I grew fat. Not like “oh my god, how can two feet support that much weight!?” But in a subtle “someone YOUR size…” type of thing. It was the kind of fat where guys don’t check you out on the street and there is no such thing as a cute-girl-discount anywhere. When I finally stood on the scale and understood that the number wasn’t an error, that I really was THAT heavy, I realized it was time for me join the craze and jump on the diet train. Only, I don’t do fads. I’m more of do my own thing instead of paying someone money to tell me what to do. So I decided to lose the weight on my own. And I did. A Cynic’s guide to losing weight Let’s break down how the body works, okay? Your body uses up a certain amount of calories to live. The amount varies by how tall you are, how much you weigh, how...
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