Overnutrition and Undernutrition
Overnutrition and undernutrition
‘Beware of diet crazes’ – Sunday Telegraph 13.02.05
Question 1: What is meant by the term ‘fad diet’?
Fad diets are eating programs that are genuinely unbalanced, unhealthy and do not provide enough nutrition for the body. The people that follow fad diets will eventually become malnourished under nutrition. Fad diets are created usually for weight losing purposes
Question 2: Identify 3 fad diets and outline the features of each.
-Cabbage Soup Diet: The cabbage soup diet is about consuming a low calorie cabbage soup over seven days. It is considered as fad diet because it is designed for short-term weight-loss that requires no long-term physical activities. The diet contains a soup in which the ingredients are mostly vegetarian. It is claimed to lose about 4.5 kg in a week but base on diet experts, most of the weight loss are water.
-Three Day Diet: The three day diet is now one of the most popular short-term diets. The diet contains a guide for three days with low fat, salt and calorie meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is very unhealthy as its lack of carbohydrates and protein. Therefore it is not recommended to be used anymore than three days.
-Grapefruit Diet: The grapefruit diet, also known as the Hollywood Diet is a short-term fad diet that has existed in the United States since 1930s. It involves eating half a grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice with each meal and significantly reduce the calorie intake, often under 800 calories per day. Like all others fad diets, it is not recommended for regular use.
Question 3: Celebrities have access to additional resources, to aid them in achieving weight loss, that are not generally available to average person. What are they?
Most celebrities are very rich. They can have access to many different resources that help them achieving weight loss. A common example is personal trainer. The trainers are dietary and weight loss professional that knows many efficient ways and
‘Beware of diet crazes’ – Sunday Telegraph 13.02.05
Question 1: What is meant by the term ‘fad diet’?
Fad diets are eating programs that are genuinely unbalanced, unhealthy and do not provide enough nutrition for the body. The people that follow fad diets will eventually become malnourished under nutrition. Fad diets are created usually for weight losing purposes
Question 2: Identify 3 fad diets and outline the features of each.
-Cabbage Soup Diet: The cabbage soup diet is about consuming a low calorie cabbage soup over seven days. It is considered as fad diet because it is designed for short-term weight-loss that requires no long-term physical activities. The diet contains a soup in which the ingredients are mostly vegetarian. It is claimed to lose about 4.5 kg in a week but base on diet experts, most of the weight loss are water.
-Three Day Diet: The three day diet is now one of the most popular short-term diets. The diet contains a guide for three days with low fat, salt and calorie meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is very unhealthy as its lack of carbohydrates and protein. Therefore it is not recommended to be used anymore than three days.
-Grapefruit Diet: The grapefruit diet, also known as the Hollywood Diet is a short-term fad diet that has existed in the United States since 1930s. It involves eating half a grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice with each meal and significantly reduce the calorie intake, often under 800 calories per day. Like all others fad diets, it is not recommended for regular use.
Question 3: Celebrities have access to additional resources, to aid them in achieving weight loss, that are not generally available to average person. What are they?
Most celebrities are very rich. They can have access to many different resources that help them achieving weight loss. A common example is personal trainer. The trainers are dietary and weight loss professional that knows many efficient ways and