fad diet

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fad diet (plural fad diets)

  1. A restrictive diet whose main goal is short-term weight loss.
    • 1979, Nathan Pritikin, The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise:
      The diet revives old food friends unjustly scorned by fad diets: breads, cereals []
    • 1981 June 3, Jane E. Brody, “Another Entry in the Annals of Fad Diets”, in New York Times[1]:
      Last week, another in a seemingly endless stream of fad diets hit the best-seller list. If as many Americans as bought these miraclepromising books actually lost a significant amount of weight and kept it off, the market for future fads would soon disappear.
  2. A diet that is popular only for a short time, a novelty diet; a fad in food.
    • 2009, Brandi Sentz, Kelli Glass, How to Eat Fried Chicken, and Be Thin Too, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 33:
      Usually a fad diet will take one idea that research has shown to be somewhat beneficial and take it to the extreme. A good example of this is the statement “Eat seaweed at every meal.”