popular diets

The grapefruit diet, popularly known as the Hollywood Diet, is a short-term fad diet that has generally existed in the United States since at least the 1930s. Specifics of the diet may vary broadly, but it frequently involves eating half a grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice with each meal and essentially lowering caloric intake, often to below 800 calories per day. This type of diet is based on the justification that grapefruit has a fat-burning enzyme or identical property. The variations of the grapefruit diet that are too low in calories (below 1200 calories a day), carbs or essential micronutrients are considered unhealthy and possibly dangerous. While eating half a grapefruit with every meal may be a considerable way to include more fruit in the diet of a healthy person. But grapefruit and grapefruit juice is harmful if the dieter is taking medications that can interact with grapefruit juice or is allergic to citruses.

A raw food diet is very common style of eating and it is becoming increasingly usual in connection with weight loss. A raw food diet consists of eating only raw organic foods which have not been cooked or processed, the exception being foods which may be heated to a maximum of 46 C (115 F).

Detox diets are dietary schedules and program that insist to have detoxifying effects. The usual idea indicates that most food is contaminated by different ingredients deemed unnecessary for human life, such as flavor enhancers, food colorings, and artificial preservatives. Scientists, dietitians, and doctors, while especially judging ‘detox diets’ harmless (unless nutritional deficiency results), often argue the value and need of ‘detox diets’ due to shortage of supporting factual evidence or coherent rationale. Detox diets can have absorbing extremely limited foods (only water or juice, a form of fasting, or eliminating certain foods from the diet (such as fats).