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Popular Fad Diets: The Subway Diet
Categories: Weight Loss

Jared Fogle popularized the Subway Diet when he lost 245 pounds while chowing down on a Subway sandwich, twice each day, almost seven days each week. If we can believe the media buzz on Jared, he was transformed himself from an obese couch potato, weighing 425 pounds to a fit 180 who took daily walks […]

Popular Fad Diets: The Lemonade Cleansing Diet
Categories: Weight Loss

The Lemonade Cleansing Diet isn't new but has grown in publicity and popularity since the increased publicity about fasting as a way of improving health and losing weight. The slim volume that lays out the lemonade cleanse was written by Stanley Burroughs in 1941. Also known as The Maple Syrup Diet and The Lemonade Diet, […]

Popular Fad Diets: The Hollywood Celebrity Diet
Categories: Weight Loss

The Hollywood Celebrity Diet was an ever-present headline back in the 1990s as it proclaimed that myriad Hollywood stars drank this concoction to lose the pound brought on by life-in-the-fast-lane. Ads were on TV and in every magazine – and it can still be found in WalMart, proving that its popularity hasn’t completely dissipated.   […]

Popular Fad Diets: The New Cabbage Soup
Categories: Weight Loss

The 7 Day Cabbage Soup Diet has been around for 20+ years and has now been updated to the New Cabbage Soup Diet because taste of the main source of nourishment – cabbage soup (big surprise!) – has been improved. The Cabbage Soup Diet has three main premises: The main food is the cabbage soup. […]