Fad Diets

Bite-Sized Medicine

A run through of the evidence, theory, and effect of common fad diets.

Resources:

1. Agaston, Arthur. The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss. Rodale, 2003.
   
2. Atkins, Robert C. "Dr. Atkins' diet revolution; the high calorie way to stay thin forever." (1972).
   
3. Cordain, Loren. The paleo diet: lose weight and get healthy by eating the food you were designed to eat. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007.
   
4. D'adamo, Peter J., and Catherine Whitney. The Eat Right 4 Your Type The complete Blood Type Encyclopedia. Penguin, 2002.
   
5. Dansinger, Michael L., et al. "Comparison of the Atkins, Ornish, Weight Watchers, and Zone diets for weight loss and heart disease risk reduction: a randomized trial." Jama 293.1 (2005): 43-53.
   
6. Davis, William. "Wheat belly: lose the wheat, loss the weight and find your path back to health." New York: Rodale (2011).
   
7. Ornish, Dean. "Eat more, weigh less: Dr. Dean Ornish's life choice program for losing weight safely while eating abundantly." (1993).
   
8. Pittet, P. H., P. H. Gygax, and E. Jequier. "Thermic effect of glucose and amino acids in man studied by direct and indirect calorimetry." British Journal of Nutrition 31.03 (1974): 343-349.
   
9. Wang, Jingzhou, et al. "ABO Genotype,‘Blood-Type’Diet and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors." PloS one 9.1 (2014): e84749.