Introduction: Obesity is a worldwide health concern, which has been on an alarming trend in Jordan. Obesity leads to several chronic disorders and adversely affects the figure. Furthermore, it is considered to be a severe health threat during adolescence and early adulthood. People in Jordan tend to consume the foods that are rapidly prepared, and such dietary habits are referr...

Transl Androl Urol 2014;3(3):313 www.amepc.org/tau With recent increases in obesity throughout the United States and other industrialized nations, fad diets continue to gain in popularity. Although little formal research has been undertaken regarding the health impact of these fads, each has its own questionable health benefits as well as potential health risks, including lithogenic effects (1)...

While much of the third world starves, many in the first world are undergoing an obesity epidemic, and the related epidemics of type II diabetes, heart disease, and other diseases associated with obesity. The amount of economic wealth being directly related to a decline in health by obesity is ironic because rich countries contribute billions of dollars to improve the health of their citizens. ...

The early years of twentieth-century Britain were a transitional period for the way that food was understood. Diet adequacy now being increasingly thought as not simply matter quantity but qualities needed to have sustain optimum health. A number ‘fad diet’ books circulating and proposed what readers should eat or avoid, even how eat. Science, meanwhile, making progress with identification vita...

Because FCS agents teach communities about dietary guidelines, it is important that they are aware of the latest nutrition research. This study assessed agents’ knowledge popular fad diets (low-carbohydrate, intermittent fasting, detoxes and cleanses) their potential adverse effects, its relationship among location, certifications, years experience, professional association memberships, educati...

W diets appeal to the growing population of overweight Americans. Fad diets promise rapid weight loss, easy weight loss, limited restrictions on portion sizes of favorite foods, and above all an enhanced sense of well being. The popularity of fad diets points out the honest promises of traditional weight loss diets. Traditional weight loss diets promise slow weight loss of 0.45 to 0.9 kg/week. ...