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Article Excerpt
Lose up to 10 pounds in 30 days! You will look and feel better than ever before. No more forbidden foods or grueling exercise programs. The pounds melt away as you sleep.
advertisements like this promote the latest fad diet for quick and easy weight loss. However, these diets limit your food selections and are usually based on testimonials rather than scientific studies. Americans spend billions of dollars each year on fad diets, but do any of them really work long-term? Are they healthy? Four teens describe the fad diets they have tried in order to control their weight.
Low-Carb, High-Protein
JoAnne followed a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet to lose weight when she was 15 years old. While following the diet, she had to avoid or limit bread, potatoes, pasta, bananas, breakfast cereals, carrots, fruit, candy, and desserts. She could eat meat and fat anytime, but could have only small amounts of some vegetables each day.
"I lost 35 pounds while I was on the diet," JoAnne said. "I loved losing the weight, but I got sick of eating the same thing every day. When I stopped following it, I gained back all the weight I had lost, plus more."
Promoters of this type of diet say that carbohydrates are bad because they cause weight gain....
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