Bad Diets from Bad Ideas

Bad diets abound almost anywhere a potential dieter looks. The problem is that weight loss has actually become a business, and such a lucrative one that there seems to be a diet plan based around every conceivable angle. Some of these diets are proven by years, if not centuries, of habits. Others are fads, or actually unhealthy, and some are still being argued over even now.

So how's a beginning dieter supposed to know which advice to take and which to leave alone? How do you tell a good diet from a bad diet? One basic rule of thumb for bad diets: if the diet starves you of vitamins and nutrients, it is one you should probably avoid. The body is healthiest when it has all the vitamins and minerals it needs to function at top level. Diets such as the cabbage soup diet or grape fruit diet can not possibly provide all the vitamins your body needs to function. Any type of fasting diet is definitely a huge no.

The controversy comes with calling high fat no carb diets bad diets. While these may help to lose weight, the moment you begin eating carbs again they all come back-and eating that much fat and cholesterol simply can not be healthy for your system. The point of weight loss isn't just to look good (though that is definitely a nice bonus) but it is also to be healthy doing it.

This does not mean that all food focused diets are bad diets. The Mediterranean diet is an example of a diet that cuts away almost all butter and red meat-but it does allow white meat, your body doesn't need butter, and it still has you eat enough calories, it just switches to much healthier foods than the average person eats and thus tends to work very well for some people to drop weight and stay healthy. Just remember the basic rule of thumb that a bad diet is one that starves you, and a good one still gives you all you need for a healthy life. The Mediterranean Diet is definitely the way to go.

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