The American Heart Association, the American Dietetic Association, The Surgeon General and the US Department of Agriculture all have specific recommendations about diets and food groups that do or do not provide adequate nutrition based on the knowledge and research that we have today.
Fad diets often blame anything and everything other than the amount of calories the person ingests for the amount of weight that they have gained. For instance some diets blame particular hormones, viruses or believe that certain foods can change an entire body chemistry. These diets often offer a temporary solution to a lifelong and chronic condition. This solution often appears enticing because the advertising leads the individual to believe that weight loss is easy and simple.
Once these fad diets have been stopped the weight loss is usually quickly regained. But there are secondary negative effects to that quick weight loss and rebound. The first is that when an individual loses weight quickly and then gain it back, they often gain back more weight than they lost. The second is that when weight is lost quickly it is more often water weight and muscle but when it is regained it is usually gained as fat.
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