Help!!? 1. Why do you think people keep falling for fad diets? What is it about them that makes them so
appealing?

2. Give an example of a fad diet. What characteristics of this diet let us know it's a fad diet?

3. How do low carb diets cause initial weight loss?

4. What are superfoods? Are they good for us?

1-Fad diets tend to appeal more to people's vanity than to their desire to stay healthy. The focus is on inches and pounds, not reducing the risk of diabetes or heart disease. "They're more motivated by wanting to change the way they look than their health," Osborn says
2-Promises a quick fix.
Promotes 'magic' foods or combinations of foods.
Implies that food can change body chemistry.
Excludes or severely restricts food groups or nutrients, such as carbohydrates.
Has rigid rules that focus on weight loss.
3-Insulin is released to help glucose enter the body's cells, where it can be used for energy. Extra glucose is stored in the liver and muscles, and some is converted to body fat. A low-carb diet is intended to cause the body to burn stored fat for energy, which leads to weight loss
4-Superfoods are foods — mostly plant-based but also some fish and dairy — that are thought to be nutritionally dense and thus good for one's health. Blueberries, salmon, kale and acai are just a few examples of foods that have garnered the "superfood" label.

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