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Chapter 3: Introducing the Fad Diets, the

Good Diets and the Arguments

This explains to some extent why we have so much contradictory advice

available online regarding our diets. You have some people who still pro-

mote the ‘low fat’ advice and you have others that take all this new infor-

mation to heart and that recommend we completely avoid carbohydrates,

or that we avoid simple carbs in particular.

Then there are others that will attempt to use a lot of the information we

now have to create ‘hacks’ that help us to lose weight faster and with less

effort.

All of them are wrong and all of them are right. As ever, the answer lies

somewhere in the middle.

Let’s start by taking a look at some of the most popular approaches to diet-
ing, how they work and what you should take from them…

Low Fat Diets

Low fat diets are diets that haven’t gotten the memo about saturated fat.

Organizations such as Weight Watchers still recommend this approach and

they tell us to eat low fat foods using all manner of scoring systems.

The thing is that you can lose weight on these diets. That’s because fat is

high in calories and if you’re strict enough to ignore the hunger that comes

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