Fad Diets: 6 Ways To Know
We hear the term "fad diets" these days but what constitutes a diet as fad?
The origins of the word "fad" comes from different sources and some are interesting; a hobby or pet project, from the early 1800's; perhaps 18th century term, fiddle faddle, implying fashion or craze; from the French, fadaise meaning trifle or nonsense; unltimately from the Latin, fatuus meaning stupid
Whatever, we don't take a fad seriously A passing fancy as implied
But currently a fad is only a fad after we have experienced that there is no truth in its approach
I would purport that a nutritional fad is grounded on the following:
No test of time to establish validity
Based on a particular food(certain fruit, berry etc)
Based on a type of food(carbohydrate, protein)
Based on measurement(number of calories consumed, number of pounds lost)
Intuitively claims cannot be believed(in six weeks you'll lose 30 pounds!)
No nutritional system supports the overall process(employing scientific concepts)
This first and last guideline are the most salient because(and this seems like heresy) they place our current matter science nutritional model as suspect as fad
Why? Because there is no nutritional system that supports the underlying tenets of its dimension Therefore I would have to term our current system as fad and I believe that's why we fall for all the fad diets; we don't have a system of nutrition that isn't fad
How in the world could we know the difference between what is quality and real and fad when we have only been exposed to fad?
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
