fad diet
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fæd ˈdaɪət/
Noun
fad diet (plural fad diets)
- A restrictive diet whose main goal is short-term weight loss.
- 1979, Nathan Pritikin, The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise
- The diet revives old food friends unjustly scorned by fad diets: breads, cereals […]
- 1981 June 3, Jane E. Brody, “Another Entry in the Annals of Fad Diets”, in New York Times:
- Last week, another in a seemingly endless stream of fad diets hit the best-seller list. If as many Americans as bought these miraclepromising books actually lost a significant amount of weight and kept it off, the market for future fads would soon disappear.
- 1979, Nathan Pritikin, The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise
- A diet that is experiencing temporary popularity; a fad in food.
- 2009, Brandi Sentz; Kelli Glass, How to Eat Fried Chicken, and Be Thin Too, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 33:
- Usually a fad diet will take one idea that research has shown to be somewhat beneficial and take it to the extreme. A good example of this is the statement “Eat seaweed at every meal.”
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