Though diets can promote healthier eating, fad diets always seem to take the forefront in the conversation. This was especially true in the '70s.

This eating plan is considered a fad diet. Fad diets often promote quick weight loss that is unsustainable and may severely restrict what you eat. They may be harmful and generally do not have ...

Have you ever come across a diet that promises rapid, short-term weight loss? Most likely, it's a fad diet that you should avoid. Losing weight doesn't happen overnight, and if a product or diet is ...

For Liz Weinandy, an Ohio State instructor of practice in medical dietetics, experimenting with fad diets is like getting hooked on slot machines in Las Vegas: enticing and flashy at first, but ...

Much like TV spoilers, it’s hard to miss the chat around the cabbage soup diet – or the hype around the ‘so-called’ health benefits (read: an easy way to lose weight). Priya Tew, a specialist ...