2012 Top Five Worst Diets

Yahoo has revealed the top five worst diet of the year. According to yahoo, the list are:

• Dukan Diet

This is a complicated weight loss diet programme in four phases which involves eating only particular food groups during each phase and restricting others. Although it encourages fast weight loss, it also encourage bad nutrition. It has being slammed for being unsustainable and  has “little solid science behind this”. It also comes with side effects such as constipation and bad breath. Which is surely enough to put anyone off!

• KEN Diet

This diet promotes drip feeding to keep calories low. The Kentogenic Enteral Nutrition (KEN) Diet means you don’t eat anything for ten days and consume just 260 calories in a liquid solution through your nose. People on the diet have to carry around the solution and pump with them and can only unhook themselves for short periods to enjoy a treat – such as an unsweetened herbal tea. Laxatives are also necessary as the diet contains no fibre. The BDA (British Dieteic Association) expressed amazement that healthy people would opt for this type of treatment – usually used for seriously ill patients.

• Party Girl IV Drip Diet

Simon Cowell and Rihanna  keep trim by using the ‘Party Girl’ IV Drip Diet. It involves a solution containing vitamins B and C and minerals magnesium and calcium injected via IV to perk up those who are feeling run down. It also come with side effects such as dizziness, infection, inflammation and possible anaphylactic shock.

• The Alcorexia / Drunkorexia Diet

The alcohol-based alcorexia or drunkorexia diet makes the list for another year running. Proponents of it eat very little during the day or week, preferring to ‘save’ all the calories and ‘spend’ them on alcohol. The BDA brands this diet ‘absolutely stupid’. Not only does alcohol contain very little nutrition apart from calories, your hangovers will be horrendous and you could easily end up with alcohol poisoning. Plus, if you drink enough you’ll still over do the calories and may not lose any weight at all. Pointless.

• Six weeks to OMG Diet 

 It involves swapping veg for fizzy drinks and you have regular ice baths to encourage your body to burn fat to keep you warm. The author of the plan admits it’s not a long-term solution, but even in the short term it’s pretty barmy. The BDA says the ‘research’ behind the book is unbalanced and selective and that following rules and observing ‘competitive’ dieting behavior is extremely unhealthy.

The best way to lose weight and keep it off is by eating healthy and exercising