Losing weight takes a lot of hard work, but that doesn’t mean you have to resort to extreme calorie restriction, eliminating entire food groups, or depriving yourself of nutrients. Fad diets are the ...

Have you ever come across a diet that promises rapid, short-term weight loss? Most likely, it’s a fad diet that you should avoid. Losing weight doesn’t happen overnight, and if a product or diet is ...

Have you noticed how people jump on board with a popular fad diet, lose 5, 10 or even 20 pounds, only to gain it all back and then some. Why does this happen? It’s actually a simple concept, and once ...

Fad diets have existed for hundreds of years, promising a quick fix for people pursuing weight loss and health improvement ...

In 2012, the BBC aired a documentary that pushed diet culture to a new extreme. For Eat, Fast, and Live Longer, the British journalist Michael Mosley experimented with eating normally for five days ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- You may have noticed a lot of new fad diets popping up online as many come on the market right after the New Year. But beware: there's no quick fix to weight loss. Bridget Coyne ...

Diet trends have come and gone over the years. Some were quirky, while others had dangerous restrictions. Who hasn’t heard of a celebrity-backed liquid cleanse or the promise of rapid weight loss ...

We all know that we're supposed to eat healthy. But with all the fad diets, ads for supplements and store shelves filled with "new and improved" products, it can be difficult sometimes to know how to ...

For his public health nutrition course this spring, Adam Graczyk asked his students to work in teams to develop their own fad diets, drawing from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) dietary ...