This document discusses various fad diets and provides healthier alternatives. It notes that fad diets that severely restrict food groups are unlikely to provide long-term weight loss and can be unhealthy. While low-fat and low-carb diets may lead to initial weight loss, they eliminate essential nutrients and are difficult to maintain long-term. Instead, the document recommends a balanced lifestyle diet that includes a variety of healthy carbohydrates, fats, and proteins for sustained weight loss and better overall health.

1. Fast Diet Fixes
Ditch Fad Diets

2. You see them all the time: the latest, greatest diet that
promises a new way – the only way – to lose weight.
Problem is, many of these fad diets are actively bad for
you.
Not only that – they are unlikely to work in the long
term based, as they are, on restricting certain foods
rather than incorporating healthier foods into your
everyday diet.

3. Low Fat Diets
These diets are very popular because the
thinking goes that if you consume less fat,
you will inevitably lose fat from your body.
Makes sense doesn’t it? After all, fat is very
calorie dense.
But fat is also essential in our everyday diets.

4. Fat promotes normal brain cell function, regulates
hormones and your immune system operation.
Fat coats your nerves cells and protects them from
deterioration.
Fat is also involved in your body’s important
biochemical reactions so having some fat in your diet
is vital so long as you keep it within healthy,
reasonable limits.

5. Not all fats are bad, there are good fats and bad
fats.
Bad fats include saturated fat and trans fats.
These types of fat lower the amount of healthy
cholesterol in your body, throwing your system out
of balance by increasing the amount of bad
cholesterol present.

6. Good fats are those that, in their basic
building block form, are known as
monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats.
They play several important roles in
hormone production and help to aid in
proper cell function.
These types of fats contain Omega-3 fatty
acids. Omega-3 is known to reduce the risk
of heart disease, diabetes, high blood
pressure and stroke.

7. Low Carb Diets
Your body will always turn food into sugar.
The body needs to convert it to this form so that it
can be burned as fuel.
When you limit your carb intake, your body does
not have enough sugar to burn so instead of
burning sugar, it burns fat.

8. You will drop weight initially on a
low carb diet but you may not want
to live without your favorite foods
for the long haul.
That is why it is so difficult to stick
to these types of diets.

9. Eliminating carbohydrates also restricts
the vitamins and minerals you get from
good carbs such as:
Brown rice
Whole wheat
Whole grains
Vegetables, etc.
These carbs give a slow release of sugar
into the bloodstream which keeps your
energy levels stable.

10. Not only are these restrictive diets bad for your health,
they lack variety which means you are far more likely
to stray.
Choose instead a lifestyle based diet which includes a
wide choice of foods that boosts your health and energy
rather than depleting it.
In this way, you are far more likely to lose weight and
keep it off in the long term.