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Fad Diets: The Grapefruit Diet or New Mayo Diet

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(This diet has no connection to the Mayo Clinic.) This diet promises that you’ll lose 52 pounds if you follow it properly for 10 weeks. Most of us can lose about that much by exercising every day and replacing a fatty meal with a salad every day but there seems to be more attraction to following a rigid diet like this. There are lots of rules to this diet: * As with all diets, you must drink eight 8 ounce glasses of water every day. You can eat at every meal until you are full (the items listed are the … Continue reading →

Diet Hype: Looking For the Next Fad

When you need to lose weight, it’s easy to fall prey to passing trends. The lure of quick weight loss is everywhere, promising a healthy, beautiful body with minimal effort. It’s sad to say, but there is a lot of money to be made peddling potions, pills, bangles, and devices to overweight people. Just the other day, I was scanning a mail order catalog. I came across an ad for a weight loss ring and this is how it’s supposed to work. Depending upon which finger the ring is worn, the pressure causes weight loss in a specific part of … Continue reading →