Top 10 Diets Explained

Figuring out the best diet for you can be difficult. Before you spend hours researching different diet plans, read this summary of some of the most popular diets on the market today. Diet Books
1. The Fat Smash Diet: The Fat Smash Diet is a 90-day program that's broken into four phases. It's designed to teach you how to have a healthy relationship with food resulting in lifelong dietary changes. There are no long-term food restrictions in the Fat Smash Diet.
2. The Atkins Diet: The foundation of the Atkins Diet is carbohydrate manipulation. Like the Fat Smash Diet, the Atkins Diet is broken into four phases that teach you how to change your lifelong eating habits. This diet requires long-term restriction of net carbohydrates.
3. The South Beach Diet: The South Beach Diet is similar to the Fat Smash Diet and the Atkins Diet in that it is intended to establish long-term eating patterns. The big difference in the South Beach Diet is that it promotes healthy eating through indefinite avoidance of bad carbohydrates and bad fats.
4. The Zone Diet: The premise of the Zone diet is the consumption of carbohydrate, protein and fat calories in a ratio of 40%, 30%, 30%. Similar to the Fat Smash Diet, the Zone Diet doesn't require long-term restriction of specific foods. It's intended to be a lifelong eating plan. Diet Programs
5. Weight Watchers: This program assigns point values to foods. Members are allowed to eat a designated number of points per day, based on their height, weight, gender, age and activity level. Like the Fat Smash Diet, Weight Watchers teaches you how to make healthy choices without restricting specific food groups.
6. NutriSystem: This plan is based on the glycemic index of carbohydrates. NutriSystem requires that you purchase their meals, which will be sent to you every 28 days. Unlike diets such as Atkins and the Fat Smash Diet, NutriSystem doesn't teach lifelong eating habits. By providing the meals, it takes a lot of control for the dieters.
7. Jenny Craig: This program offers support meetings and pre-packaged meals; however, it does not assign point values to food. Jenny Craig has three levels; the first level teaches how to eat; the second teaches how to increase energy levels and the third teaches how to balance life. Fad Diets
8. Cabbage Soup Diet: This is an unhealthy approach to weight loss, which is based on calorie restriction. It's a lose-weight quick gimmick that allows you to lose up to 10 pounds very quickly; however, as soon as you increase your calories, the weight will come back.
9. Grape Fruit Diet: Another quick weight loss plan that restricts calories to lose weight. Like the Cabbage Soup Diet, it's unhealthy because it's based on the consumption of one primary food. This deprives the body of nutrients that are found in a variety of other foods.
10. Apple Cider Diet: Again, a calorie restricting diet, which results in rapid weight loss that's guaranteed to return once normal eating is resumed. Additionally, diets like this slow the metabolism making it more difficult for the body to burn fat.