FAD DIETS AND DIETING FOR FAT LOSS
Summary of main points.
• Sustainable strategies of eating a low-fat diet and maintaining appropriate activity levels are required for long term management of fat stores.
• Criteria can be applied to these diets to assess their validity and sustainability.
Long term management of fat stores requires people to develop sustainable strategies in eating a low-fat diet and maintaining appropriate activity levels. The ad libitum approach to low-fat eating has been shown to be the most effective and easiest to follow over the long term. The rationale and techniques for doing this have been discussed in previous chapters. One disadvantage of this approach, however, is that it takes longer for success—even though this is likely to be more sustainable over the long run. Hence, there is still often a desire by many for a ‘quick fix’. ‘Diets’ offer this. Fad diets offer it even more convincingly. The most popular diets promise faster and seemingly effortless ways of losing ‘weight’, contributing to sporadic, and often counter-productive, efforts in weight management.
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