Today's health tip
Date published: 30 January 2009
How to spot bad dietary advice Stay away from diets that:
�� Promise a quick fix
�� Recommend magical fat-burning effects of foods (eg
grapefruit)
�� Promote the avoidance or severe limitation of a whole
food group, such as carbohydrate foods or dairy foods
(and suggest large doses of vitamin and mineral
supplements as a replacement)
�� Promote eating mainly one type of food (eg cabbage
soup or eggs)
�� Suggest easy, rapid weight loss (more than 2lbs a week)
�� Recommend eating foods only in particular combinations
�� Make claims that sound 'too good to be true'
�� Focus only on your appearance rather than on health
benefits
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