Crash diets a recipe for disaster
11 Jan 2012

Crash diets a recipe for disaster

1 mins to read
By Simone Du Toit. If, like me, you have reluctantly stepped back onto the scales following a rather excessive festive season to discover those second helpings, crackers and brie and cocktails have well and truly stuck to the hips, then you will be looking to shed the excess bagage asap.


While we are constantly reminded fad diets don’t work, many of us will none-the-less be tempted to take drastic measures including consuming watery cabbage soups and juice concoctions in an attempt to rewind the damage in record time.

But, before you do, see which fad diets have been voted the worst by over 50 of Australia’s top nutritional experts in an online survey. From a list of nine popular fad diets, the Lemon Detox Diet was deemed the worst with an overwhelming 80% of the total votes. This was followed by the celebrity-endorsed Blood Type Diet and the Acid and Alkaline Diet.

"Women often think they are failures when they can’t sustain such strict and unrealistic diets," Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) spokesperson, Dr Trent Watson said.

"Ditch the fad diets, and choose a New Year’s resolution around healthy eating and regular exercise.

"Small, sustainable changes over the long-term are much more effective than yo-yo dieting," Dr Watson said.

Instead of resorting to strict, unrealistic diet regimes, DAA encourages young women to choose achievable New Year’s resolutions such as:

  • Eating breakfast every day
  • Limiting take-away meals to once a week
  • Choosing water as a drink
  • Exercising on most days of the week.

So this year choose a healthy and sustainable way to shed those excess Christmas kilos rather than an unrealistic crash diet and your health as well as your hips will thank you for it.



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