Fads Aren't Facts

It is the holiday season, and the newest diet trends tend to sound very appealing to those concerned with losing that holiday weight! However, some of these trends can do more harm than good to your body. People are commonly blinded by the misleading, false claims that these new, popular diets make. Rapid weight loss is not as beneficial as it may seem and can actually cause you to quickly pack the pounds back on. It is better to lose weight at a slow pace in order to maintain your muscle and bone mass. Some diets completely restrict some foods and instruct for large intakes of others. This can decrease intake of important vitamins and minerals, and can lead to boredom throughout the diet process. Diets that instruct you to eat certain combinations of foods at certain times of the day in order to prevent the food from harming your body are false! A majority of the trendiest diets are complex and involve specific meals and ingredients. This can become stressful to an individual who has a busy schedule; therefore, pick a diet plan that works best with your lifestyle instead of stressing to make a rigid one work. Certain diets claim that no exercise is needed, but exercise is most certainly needed in order to maintain a healthy, active lifestyle! When searching for a new, trendy diet to shed off those holiday pounds be on the lookout for the misleading, false claims that some diets use. Instead of following these fad diets, try to adapt to healthier eating habits and a more active life style in order to maintain muscle, get adequate nutrient intakes and maintain a healthy weight. 

Find this and more at: http://www.eatright.org/resource/health/weight-loss/fad-diets/staying-away-from-fad-diets.