- Title: Are fad diets worth their weight? Crowe (2014) is likely against the so-called fad diets. He argues that the real way to success in the area of weight control is the development of a realistic strategy focused on health promotion and the elimination of harmful eating habits.
- Intended audience: The intended audience is the wide public since the issues of weight control has currently become a problematic area for the majority of Americans who need to lose weight either due for cosmetic purposes or for the sake of disease prevention (Crowe, 2014).
- Writer’s background: Crowe is a healthcare researcher and a practicing specialist in the field of nutrition.
- Writer’s angle: Although scholars remain uncertain as to the fad diets overall impact on people’s health, they do state that an unbalanced approach and overindulging may cause considerable harm to an individual’s health and lead to gaining more weight after the end of dieting. However, Crowe suggests that deriving effective patterns from fad diets and adding them to other weight loss and health promotion techniques may work successfully for those patients who have trouble losing weight with the help of the traditional approach.
The one-sentence summary
Crowe (2014) suggests that deriving effective patterns from fad diets and adding them to other effective weight loss and health promotion techniques may work successfully for those patients who have trouble losing weight with the help of traditional approaches.
The one-paragraph summary
Crowe (2014) suggests that deriving effective patterns from fad diets and adding them to other weight loss and health promotion techniques may work successfully for those patients who have trouble losing weight with the help of traditional approaches. The issue of fad diets is thus closely connected with patients’ personal beliefs and inner complexities. Since the major reason of this type of diets, success is their promise of prompt results, and they are even referred to as emergency help for a person who wants to be a star at the beach party planned for the next week despite having a couple of extra pounds, people are ready to engage in these promising practices. Therefore, it can be said that the main problem associated with fad diets is a psychological problem.
The multiple-paragraph summary
Crowe (2014) suggests that deriving effective patterns from fad diets and adding them to other weight loss and health promotion techniques may work successfully for those patients who have trouble losing weight with the help of traditional approaches. The issue of fad diets is thus closely connected with patients’ personal beliefs and inner complexities. Since the major reason of this type of diets, success is their promise of prompt results, and they are even referred to as emergency help for a person who wants to be a star at the beach party planned for the next week despite having a couple of extra pounds, people are ready to engage in these promising practices.
Therefore, it can be said that the main problem associated with fad diets is a psychological problem. People need to understand that staying healthy, being good-looking, and maintaining optimal weight requires a lot of hard work and systematic practices.
Evaluation of scholarly data suggests that although fad diets are connected with considerable risks, a balanced and well-developed strategy implementing certain aspects of this type of diets may have positive outcomes for a broad group of patients (Crowe, 2014).
There is a growing group of patients for whom traditional approach to balanced nutrition is not effective. For such patients, some types of fad diets have proven themselves helpful. Therefore, a balanced approach to the problem resolution is needed. Healthy eating practices, good physical activity practices, and considerate approach may help an individual in solving the extra weight issue.
Your reaction
Assessment of data available on the issue of fad diets implication for health and effectiveness for the weight management suggests that fad diets despite they do not meet the nutritional parameters of mainstream nutrition have helped some people boost weight loss although it is not recommended to lose weight faster than 1 to 2 pounds per week. From my professional experience, I have noted that there is a considerable group of patients having trouble to lose weigh using standard nutrition recommendations. Moreover, these clients have problem even maintaining their current body mass.
For such patients, fad diets may work. To achieve the optimal result for such patients, the diet should be customized, since what works for one does not necessarily work for another client. I think that fad diets cyclically can be implemented with the normal diet and they should always be supported with the supplements to make sure an individual receives the necessary elements to keep the metabolism working properly.
Reference
Crowe, T. (2014). Are fad diets worth their weight? Australasian Science, 35(1), 18.