Read the information about six diets in the article below and find out which diet:
a. is based on the idea that the more you eat the thinner you get.
b. sys that sweetts don't make you fat.
c. allows you to eat cream
d. has been tranlated into many different languages.
e. has unpleasant side effects
f. doesn't allow you to eat with yoru meal
Food Fads
No carbohydrate diet
Verdict: Initial weight-loss is likely to be due to losing water rather than fat. It's dificult to eat more meat without eating more fat, which is linked to heart disease and cancer. You might be thinner, but your arteries won't be happy
Premise: It's not what you eat, it's what you eat it with. Carbohydrates can't be digested in acid conditions, so shouldn't be eaten with protein. Mixing acid and alkaline is strictly forbidden, so fruit should never be allowed anywhere near a main meal.
Verdict: A mixture of food is necessary for a healthy metabolism - vitamin C, for instance, helps the absoption of iron. Extremely fashionable but with debatable basis.
F-plan diet
Premise: This is the original high-carbohydrate, low-fat plan, advocating lots of fruit and fibre. The 80s favourite has been translated into sixteen languages and claims to be the best-selling ever.
Verdict: Common sense disuised as new scientific breakthrough.
Grapefruit diet
Premise: More energy is spent digesting grapefruit and other foods like celery than is contained in the food itself. The more you eat, logically, the thinner you get.
Verdict: Digesting food does burn calories, but in such tiny proportions, you would have to eat a vast amount to notice any difference.
Cabbage soup diet
Premise: by eating nothing but soup made from cabbage and a few other vegetables you can lose up to six kilos in a week.
Verdict: Most of the weight loss is due to water loss, not fat, and the weight returns when you move back on to solids. Unfortunate side effects have been reported.
System S diet
Premise: The way to get thin is to eat sugar-coated cereals, biscuits, chocolate and sugary soft drinks - not the villains they are made out to be. It's a myth that sweets make you fat and rot your teeth, so tuck into another bar of chocolate.
Verdict: Just ask the dentist
