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Current Nutrition Reports

Fad Diets: Hype or Hope?

  • 01-12-2018
  • Gastroenterology, Critical Care, and Lifestyle Medicine (SA McClave, Section Editor)
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Authors
Aravind R. Kuchkuntla
Berkeley Limketkai
Sanjeev Nanda
Ryan T. Hurt
Manpreet S. Mundi
Published in
Current Nutrition Reports | Issue 4/2018

Abstract

Purpose of Review

Obesity continues to be a growing concern globally due to association with a number of comorbidities and contributing significantly to increase in health care expenditures. Despite availability of a number of treatment modalities, lifestyle modification with dietary modification and exercise continues to be the foundation. However, the standard model of lifestyle modification is not efficacious or sustainable for many patients leading them to seek alternative approaches. We conducted a comprehensive literature review to present the data regarding efficacy and sustainability of many common dietary approaches.

Recent Findings

Building upon previous work, recent randomized controlled trials have compared many popular diets head to head in varying patient populations. Along with the weight changes, studies have investigated the changes in metabolic parameters, inflammatory markers, and cardiac risk factor reduction.

Summary

Though the studies do not show superiority of one diet compared to the other, the preventive benefits and other favorable metabolic changes of the diets make them worthy of consideration.
Title
Fad Diets: Hype or Hope?
Authors
Aravind R. Kuchkuntla
Berkeley Limketkai
Sanjeev Nanda
Ryan T. Hurt
Manpreet S. Mundi
Publication date
01-12-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Current Nutrition Reports / Issue 4/2018
Electronic ISSN: 2161-3311
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13668-018-0242-1
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