Meaning of fad diet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A restrictive diet whose main goal is short-term weight loss.
2. A diet that is popular only for a short time, a novelty diet; a fad in food.

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Examples

“The diet revives old food friends unjustly scorned by fad diets: breads, cereals […]”

“Last week, another in a seemingly endless stream of fad diets hit the best-seller list. If as many Americans as bought these miraclepromising books actually lost a significant amount of weight and kept it off, the market for future fads would soon disappear.”

“Usually a fad diet will take one idea that research has shown to be somewhat beneficial and take it to the extreme. A good example of this is the statement “Eat seaweed at every meal.””

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