Critique Of The Biggest Loser Diet

The United States of America is nation that is known for its romance with guns and food. Not the most glamorous idea to be known for but in a way the comical characteristics fit the ever growing nation. Yet this obsession with the greasy, cheesy, and always supersized holds a much grimmer reality. Obesity in America is through the roof with 36 percent of American adults being classified as obese. This alongside the rapid growth of childhood obesity has created a love for shows about weight loss and health like those of “The Biggest Loser”. These inspirational shows help to show that “it” can be done, the seemingly impossibility of losing the hundreds of pounds that need to go. Though the shows are inspirational and entertaining, they are dangerous for all of the people who have lost all this weight disillusioned that they can keep it of, furthermore the

Support – The “Three Week Diet “ has an innate support system with Brian Flatt personally sifting messages and giving feedback rather than Jenny Craig’s generic answers or the call center responses followed by more food on your

     The South Beach Diet is a relatively new weight loss diet. It was developed by Miami cardiologist Arthur Agatston, M.D., who is the director of the Mount Sinai Cardiac Prevention Center. The diet is meant to promote weight loss but not at the expense of heart health. Unlike other wildly popular low-carb plans, South Beach calls for keeping tabs on saturated fats and favors lean meats and proteins over bacon, cheeseburgers, and steaks. With this diet there is no calorie counting. In fact, there is no actual diet plan per se. Agatston uses sample menus to outline what you need to eat. Lists of “foods to enjoy” and “foods to avoid” round out the plan. Basically it adds up to three meals a day

Throughout the years celebrities, media, and even some doctors have introduced hundreds of different kinds of diets. They range from juice cleanses to baby food diets and everywhere in between. While some diets may work for a short amount of time most do not last. People often look for weight loss diets claiming they work quickly with little to no exercise. While this would be a great solution, it often doesn’t follow

Most women are on a diet most of their life. The South Beach diet has been around for some time now. But not everyone knows exactly what it is or how to go about doing it. It was created by Dr. Arthur Agatston and was designed dot not only help people lose weight but to improve overall health. It aims to teach the dieter about eating the right foods, eating good fats and good carbohydrates. It isn't a diet that restricts carbohydrates and far, however there is a low carbohydrate phase to the diet. The diet is based on low GI foods. These include wholegrain pasta, breads and oats. These low GI foods release sugar slowly into the blood stream than the high GI foods like cakes, sugar and white flour. There is a lot of emphasis on eating healthy good fats, and lots of protein. The fats will help your height and the protein is good for raising the metabolism. On this diet you will have more energy and feel fuller for much longer. There are three phases to the diet and the first one will work by training your body to not crave sugary foods. This is the low carbohydrate period. After this phase you will no longer crave the sugary fatty foods. Phase one is the hardest of all the phases to undertake. It's the one that most dieters seem to slip up on. You will then enter two other phases, where you add healthier carbohydrates into your diet. The meal plan averages on about 1200 calories a day. Some people find this the only negative to

Dr Phil wrote his book “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 keys to weight loss freedom” in 2003 with the focus on adjusting behavior, exercise and healthy eating. He claims that with his method, you will get an 80% guarantee success rate. What is accurate about this diet is that it highlights the importance of making behavior changes in order to succeed your weight loss goal. Behavior changes is significant for any fad diet people choose to tackle. Weight loss is “not quick and easy” he states, but it is easy to maintain your goal with this diet.

Bill had tried several fad diets in the past and they all ended up with the same results: little to no weight loss that quickly returned. He turned to RCMC Medical Center hoping their medical weight loss programs would help where others had failed. Since failure isn't an option at RCMC Medical Center, they worked tirelessly to develop a plan and give Bill the tools he needed to change his life and keep the weight off. In only 12 short weeks, Bill had lost 45 pounds!

Fad Diets are a quick fix diet to shed pounds in a short period of time. These fad diets gives you false hopes and dreams. While your body is thinner you feel great. When you gain the weight back now you are disappointed. Who really loses? Under-eating slows the body’s natural metabolism, setting a person up for further failure as soon as he or she comes off of the diet.

Everyday it is possible to open up an issue of “Men’s Fitness” or “Muscle and Fitness” or “Modern Woman” or “TIME” or any magazine for that matter, and find the “new and/or improved” way to lose weight, improve the quality of life, or extend your years working towards the other two goals. Almost all of the methods prescribed can work; some are exercise and some are diet. For the most part though, achieving diet or exercise goals requires one to have great discipline. It has been proven, by each of these diet deveopers, that the diets they prescribe will work if the individual will just manage his caloric intake.

While you lose weight initially on many diets, extreme diets with little calories require such a drastic change that you can only follow them for a short period. By restricting what you eat you ultimately lose weight but you never learn how to turn around bad

Fad diets are not hard to find. They provide short-term results but they can be hard to sustain and they take away the essential nutrients that the body needs but are only received by balanced eating. They promise a quick fix, promise ‘magic’ foods or combinations of foods, imply that certain foods change body chemistry, excludes or restricts food groups or nutrients, has rigid rules and they make claims base on a single study. Because they cut out food groups and nutrients they cause a wide range of health problems. Followed by Kim Kardashian, the meal replacement diet is the diet that replaces normal meals with cookies, shakes or even bars. For those who are constantly on the go, shakes are a great way to eat and run.

The preoccupation of modern society with appearance is reflected in part by the preponderance of Americans who engage in dieting behaviors. Despite the nutritional and fitness literature which pervades society today, 33% of the American population continues to be overweight (Bates, 1997). The USDA recommendation for a low-fat, high-complex-carbohydrate diet over the years has seemingly not been effective, since the proportion of overweight Americans has increased. Many frustrated Americans have in turn looked beyond the high-carb, low fat diet to other less conventional measures (http.//web.usatoday.com/life/health/lhs641.htm). Dietary fads have sprouted

With obesity rate still on the rise, many people are resorting to dieting to help them lose weights. This resulted in an increase in the number of diet plans. However if dieting actually worked, there should be a decrease in obesity rate, but we can see that this is not the case. In 2014, more than two-third of the adult population is obese in the United States (Ogden, 2014). One of the reasons why dieting does not work is because most diets are fad diets. A fad diet is a weight loss plan that promises dramatic results, but these diet plans typically does not help people sustain the weight lost and are often very unhealthy (Family Doctor). One popular diet plan is the Atkins diet, which was popularized by cardiologist Robert C. Atkins. The Atkins diet focuses on restricting carbohydrate while emphasizing on proteins and fats. Despite the popularity of the Atkins diet, studies have shown that the diet does not help people lose weight and can cause harmful side effects for the body in the long run.

Both satisfy the requirement for total carbohydrates to make up between 45 to 65 percent of daily recommended caloric intake. The Biggest Loser diet at 50 percent whilst the DASH diet at 56 and 55 percent respectively. On that note I score these diets evenly also. Both in most part equally meet the standard for fiber, although the Biggest Losers 31g falls short of the 34g recommendation for men ages 19 to 30 years old. Further since, a fiber rich diet has been noted as a key factor in the prevention and reversal and management of diabetes, the DASH diets higher figures-36 and 37 g to the biggest Loser 31 g in my opinion places the DASH diet on this score, ahead of the Biggest Loser diet.

A fad diet is a weight loss plan or aid that over-promises dramatic results. These diets typically don 't result in long-term weight loss and they are usually not very healthy. In fact, some diets can actually be dangerous to your health”(Family Doctor.org). Fad diets promise excessive and miraculous weight loss goals, however these diets are proven by scientific evidence that they do not promote long lasting results. Instead they are harmful and can promote rapid onset obesity. The problem being presented here is that America’s growing obesity problem directly correlates to the fad diets. Americans would rather choose the quickest and easiest solution to their weight issue. Many people who choose these fad diets range from people including: teenages, women of all ages, and people who binge eat or are on the verge on obesity. The most important way to identify the cause of this issue and the people who are likely to fall into these fads, is to evaluate the history behind them,the types of fad diets and the what influences people to turn to them.