Diets, Fad Diets, and Dietary Lifestyle Changes
Diets define the food that a person, animal, or community eats. They restrict or include certain foods with specific goals in mind, including weight loss, weight gain, detoxification and spiritual progress. A few examples of legitimate diets include the vegetarian diet and the vegan diet.
A fad diet is also a diet, but the difference is that fad diets promise quick weight loss and other fast results. Most of the times, fad diets are unhealthy and unbalanced. They gain popularity quickly and lose it just as fast. Examples of fad diets include the tapeworm diet.
Dietary lifestyle changes are different because they don’t spring from a simple desire to achieve quick results. Dietary lifestyle changes require effort. People who commit to lifestyle changes are more likely to follow dietary changes.
The motivation for dietary lifestyle changes often go beyond the needs to change body weight or address a health condition. These broader motivators may include animal rights, environmentalism, and social responsibility. Examples of dietary lifestyle changes inspired by these motives include veganism, raw veganism and eden fruitarianism. We will explore these in more detail later in the book.
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