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When it comes to losing weight, people will try anything for quick results – no matter how dangerous or ridiculous it may be.
Experts have recently released a list of five bizarre and dangerous slimming dietsthat are currently all the rage in various parts of the world:
The Breatharian Diet
Entails attempting to survive on air alone.
The Biotyping Diet
Requires the user to carefully select foods to match them to the dieter’s biotype. For example, thyroid types would need to eat a hunter-gatherer diet to achieve weight loss and good health.
The Gluten-free Diet
Bans all gluten and thus dictates that users avoid eating foods that contain wheat, barley, rye, oats, titricale and kamut (grains that may contain gluten).
The Alcorexia or Drunkorexia Diet
Is based on a basic starvation diet and loads of alcohol to make up the remaining calories or kilojoules required for survival.
The Dukan Diet
Is another high-protein, low-carbohydrate clone diet proposed by a French medic.
As usual, each one of these potentially harmful diets has its high-profile, glamorous adherents who swear that they have either lost weight with one of the diets or owe their svelte bodies to eating according to the words of wisdom dispensed by their gurus who propagate these diets. You's be surprised, or disappointed, to read that Michelle Pfeiffer supports the Breatharian Diet, Boy George is a Biotyping follower and Gwyneth Paltrow is a Gluten-free Diet adherent.
By making public statements that they use one or other unbalanced diet, these celebrities are setting what may in some cases become a dangerous and even fatal example. Imagine what could happen if a young, impressionable teenager, who may, or may not be overweight, reads that her pop or film idol skips food and substitutes alcohol to lose weight or just take deep breaths instead of eating.
It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that such a young person may copy this kind of irresponsible behaviour and end up with alcoholism or anorexia,or suffer a fatality. It makes one's hair stand on end when one thinks of the damage this sort of celebrity example could cause to members of the general public.
In view of the potentially harmful effects these diets can have on health, we can only urge the public to follow a well-balanced slimming diet prepared by a registered dietitian and regular exercise if you want to lose weight. Please don’t endanger yourself by trying out any of these fad diets that are doing the rounds.
Experts have recently released a list of five bizarre and dangerous slimming dietsthat are currently all the rage in various parts of the world:
The Breatharian Diet
Entails attempting to survive on air alone.
The Biotyping Diet
Requires the user to carefully select foods to match them to the dieter’s biotype. For example, thyroid types would need to eat a hunter-gatherer diet to achieve weight loss and good health.
The Gluten-free Diet
Bans all gluten and thus dictates that users avoid eating foods that contain wheat, barley, rye, oats, titricale and kamut (grains that may contain gluten).
The Alcorexia or Drunkorexia Diet
Is based on a basic starvation diet and loads of alcohol to make up the remaining calories or kilojoules required for survival.
The Dukan Diet
Is another high-protein, low-carbohydrate clone diet proposed by a French medic.
As usual, each one of these potentially harmful diets has its high-profile, glamorous adherents who swear that they have either lost weight with one of the diets or owe their svelte bodies to eating according to the words of wisdom dispensed by their gurus who propagate these diets. You's be surprised, or disappointed, to read that Michelle Pfeiffer supports the Breatharian Diet, Boy George is a Biotyping follower and Gwyneth Paltrow is a Gluten-free Diet adherent.
By making public statements that they use one or other unbalanced diet, these celebrities are setting what may in some cases become a dangerous and even fatal example. Imagine what could happen if a young, impressionable teenager, who may, or may not be overweight, reads that her pop or film idol skips food and substitutes alcohol to lose weight or just take deep breaths instead of eating.
It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that such a young person may copy this kind of irresponsible behaviour and end up with alcoholism or anorexia,or suffer a fatality. It makes one's hair stand on end when one thinks of the damage this sort of celebrity example could cause to members of the general public.
In view of the potentially harmful effects these diets can have on health, we can only urge the public to follow a well-balanced slimming diet prepared by a registered dietitian and regular exercise if you want to lose weight. Please don’t endanger yourself by trying out any of these fad diets that are doing the rounds.
