Fad Diets and Quackery

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Bryce_Jersey17 said:
Not really a fad, more of a scam. Im sick and tired of seeing the clickbait ads on facebook and other sites that say that taking two certain products like protein powder and some testosterone supplement to lose massive amounts of weight quickly. They post fake statuses to make it seem legit when in fact its a scam. As someone who is trying to lose a large amount of weight, its a bit irritating to see these quick ways out of the problem, only to see that it results in nothing.
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The 8 12 and 16 week transformations are the best. 90% its a PT who has let himself go for 3 weeks, bloated up with water unshaven and i need of a haircut. Nek minut X amount of weeks later, looking fresh, clean, tanned and a million dollars.

I've seen a couple of posts on instagram and the net where some PT's have done transformation photo's literally 2 hours apart to prove a point of how ridiculous they can be.

I am not bagging people who do them, more so the people who sell them as the be all and end all. I am doing 2 myself at the moment, one through my local gym which i'm 4 weeks through and signed up to another yesterday through an online supps company i buy from.
 

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SJ said:
http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/the-highprotein-diet-myth-20150324-1m6dto.html
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I disagree with the recommended "wholefood" diet of carbs, legumes etc, purely on the basis that it's an unhealthy diet for those with a compromised digestive tract (99% of the population). Red meat and bone broth is an excellent nutrient dense source which is good for digestive tract and isn't a preferred food source for pathegons.

Here is an article about glucose and cancer which is rather fascinating and not at all well known.

http://www.mercola.com/article/sugar/sugar_cancer.htm
 
https://richarddawkins.net/2015/04/modern-food-dogma/

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Jhatka. Kosher. Halal. Food taboos and sacred diets are a part of virtually every religious tradition, from Jewish prohibitions on pork to Mormon prohibitions on coffee. But many healthy eaters think they’ve left behind divinely ordained dinners. After all, their food choices now depend on scientific studies rather than holy texts, interpreted by people in lab coats instead of priestly robes. Reliable data on longevity have replaced anecdotes about long-lived prophets. Doesn’t that mean the way most of us eat is free of religious doctrine, superstitions, and myths?

Not even close.

More - > https://richarddawkins.net/2015/04/modern-food-dogma/

In fact, there is probably no branch of medicine more difficult or complicated than nutrition science, a complexity that plays out in the endless controversies about what — and how much — we should eat. High-quality studies of dietary practices are incredibly hard to design. How do you make a placebo piece of steak for your control group? Studies on the effect of diet and lifestyle in large populations are no less difficult. They depend on recollection and self-reporting, notoriously unreliable data. And even if that data were accurate — well, just tweak an equation, exclude a set of data points, isolate a different factor, and suddenly vegetarianism goes from increasing longevity to decreasing bone density.

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Eating in moderation has been the humdrum recommendation of common sense for thousands of years, and to that sage dietary advice, religion and science alike have added virtually nothing that stands up to rigorous scrutiny. People who tell you otherwise are, at best, exaggerating evidence — and remember, in science, exaggeration is a flat-out lie.

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We embrace one food taboo after another, a habit that clinical psychologists condemn as conducive to disordered eating.
 
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Chief said:
https://richarddawkins.net/2015/04/modern-food-dogma/

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Jhatka. Kosher. Halal. Food taboos and sacred diets are a part of virtually every religious tradition, from Jewish prohibitions on pork to Mormon prohibitions on coffee. But many healthy eaters think they’ve left behind divinely ordained dinners. After all, their food choices now depend on scientific studies rather than holy texts, interpreted by people in lab coats instead of priestly robes. Reliable data on longevity have replaced anecdotes about long-lived prophets. Doesn’t that mean the way most of us eat is free of religious doctrine, superstitions, and myths?

Not even close.

More - > https://richarddawkins.net/2015/04/modern-food-dogma/
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Did you eat fish/vegetarian on Good Friday?
 

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ablett said:
At least you had something healthy, Ginger that is!
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Consulting the internet, I see that if I had morning sickness, post-operative nausea, or arthritis I might get relief by drinking a few litres a day.
 
saj_21 said:
The 8 12 and 16 week transformations are the best. 90% its a PT who has let himself go for 3 weeks, bloated up with water unshaven and i need of a haircut. Nek minut X amount of weeks later, looking fresh, clean, tanned and a million dollars.

I've seen a couple of posts on instagram and the net where some PT's have done transformation photo's literally 2 hours apart to prove a point of how ridiculous they can be.

I am not bagging people who do them, more so the people who sell them as the be all and end all. I am doing 2 myself at the moment, one through my local gym which i'm 4 weeks through and signed up to another yesterday through an online supps company i buy from.
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One British scientist lost 12 kilos in a single day. It was all done under medical supervision etc, and he said he felt like crap all the way, and put it all back on later.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...12kg-in-24-hours/story-fneuzkvr-1226761474692
 
That guy looks like a scientist straight out of a Marvel movie.
 
Surely the diet developed by Ancel Keys in the 1970's was the biggest 40 year fad diet in the 10,000's of years of human civilization.
 
Low-carb, high protein might damage arteries and increase cancer risk:

http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/cat-atkins.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegw...dairy-may-significantly-increase-cancer-risk/

People from ages 50-65 who ate high-protein diets were four times more likely to die of cancer – this is in the ballpark of smoking risk, say the authors – compared to people who ate low-protein diets. Even those who ate moderate-protein diets were three times as likely to die from cancer. And people who ate high-protein diets were 75% more likely to die from any cause, including three times as likely to die from diabetes. The team calculated that reducing protein intake from moderate to low would reduce the risk of death by 21%.​

Moderate LCHP diet changes might not:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23651548
 
Chief said:
Low-carb, high protein might damage arteries and increase cancer risk:

http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/cat-atkins.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegw...dairy-may-significantly-increase-cancer-risk/

People from ages 50-65 who ate high-protein diets were four times more likely to die of cancer – this is in the ballpark of smoking risk, say the authors – compared to people who ate low-protein diets. Even those who ate moderate-protein diets were three times as likely to die from cancer. And people who ate high-protein diets were 75% more likely to die from any cause, including three times as likely to die from diabetes. The team calculated that reducing protein intake from moderate to low would reduce the risk of death by 21%.​

Moderate LCHP diet changes might not:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23651548
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Correlation is not causation. Secondly it is quite bizarre the findings of this study would recommend lowering your protein intake between 50-65 and then increase it after the age of 65. HUH? Thirdly i don't think the study classified exact sources of animal protein, i.e. eating a fresh cut piece of steak or chicken, versus a hamburger from a take away place. Fourthly other lifestyle factors such as smoking, excess alcohol.
 
Protein in a slice of beef is no different if you mince it up and cook it as a burger instead of grilling it whole.

It is good that you're confused about dietary advice: it is a confusing and complicated subject. The only people trying to make grand claims sound like they have simple and easily understandable reasoning are fad diet marketers.

The bland advice about eating a bit of everything and not too much of anything, especially meat, is the best advice you'll get. Any of these Low This, High That diets (that almost always mean Extremely Low This, Extremely High That) are more likely to shorten your life according to what we know so far.
 
Big Cox 88 said:
Lucky I'm high fat.
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Then this doesn't apply to you. Why do we have all of these fad dieters invading our threads? This has been going on for too long and is just trolling!!11!!!!11
 
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