Select a fad diet you are interested in learning more about. Use a diet that includes menus or information on menu planning since you will be evaluating nutrient quantities. The source for this diet can be a diet book from your public library or local bookstore, a website, a diet article in a magazine, pamphlets with diets from health food stores, your physician, a friend or co-worker that may be following a diet, etc.
The diet you choose should be relatively recent (written in the last five years) and contain enough information to allow you to analyze it. There are many ‘bad’ and ‘fad’ diets out there, but there are also some good ones. Take this opportunity to begin to figure out what makes the good ones good, and the bad ones bad!
Part 1: Describe the Diet
Create a reference list of the sources you have used (book, article, website, etc.) to learn about the diet. Use APA Style (see below) and put this at the end of your essay.
Look up the author’s credentials and describe them. Does the author have academic training in nutrition?
Summarize and describe the main points of the diet.
Explain what is special and distinctive about it? What weight-loss claims are made?
Part 2: Compare your diet to a standard
Respond (using complete sentences, with examples) to the 15 ‘claims/requirements’ presented in Table 9-6 (attached). Provide a sample menu (one day) of the diet.
Part 3: State whether or not you would recommend the diet, and why or why not
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