Have you ever come across a diet that promises rapid, short-term weight loss? Most likely, it's a fad diet that you should avoid. Losing weight doesn't happen overnight, and if a product or diet is ...

Alyssa Northrop is a registered dietitian, nutrition writer, speaker and licensed massage therapist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She received a Master of Public Health in human nutrition from the ...

Diet trends have come and gone over the years. Some were quirky, while others had dangerous restrictions. Who hasn’t heard of a celebrity-backed liquid cleanse or the promise of rapid weight loss ...

For his public health nutrition course this spring, Adam Graczyk asked his students to work in teams to develop their own fad diets, drawing from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) dietary ...

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