Fad Diet Timeline – Fad Diets Throughout the Years

[pbowers]

look what our good friends at the american dietetic association have decided to release in time for national nutrition month (http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/media_10841_ENU_HTML.htm).

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1820 Vinegar and Water Diet
Made popular by Lord Byron
1825 Low Carbohydrate Diet
First appeared in The Physiology of Taste by Jean Brillat-Savarin
1830 Graham’s Diet
Only legacy: Invented Graham crackers
1863 Banting’s Low Carbohydrate Diet
“Banting” becomes a popular term for dieting
1903 Horace Fletcher promotes “Fletcherizing”
Chew food 32 times
1917 Calorie Counting
Introduced by Lulu Hunt Peters in her book Diet and Health, With Key to the Calories
1925 Cigarette Diet
“Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet”
1928 Inuit Meat-and-Fat Diet
Caribou, raw fish and whale blubber
1930 Hay Diet
Carbohydrates and proteins not allowed at the same meal
Dr. Stoll’s Diet Aid
First of the liquid diet drinks
1934 Bananas and Skim Milk Diet
Backed by the United Fruit Company
1950 Cabbage Soup Diet
Flatulence is listed as a main side effect
Grapefruit Diet
Also known as Hollywood Diet
1960 Zen Macrobiotic Diet
Created by Japanese philosopher George Ohsawa
1961 Calories Don’t Count Diet
FDA filed charges regarding diet’s claims
1964 Drinking Man’s Diet
Harvard School of Public Health declared diet unhealthful
1970 Sleeping Beauty Diet
Individuals heavily sedated for several days
Liquid Protein Diets
Liquid protein drinks were low in vitamins and minerals
1981 Beverly Hills Diet
Only fruit for first 10 days but in unlimited amounts
1985 Fit for Life
Avoid combining protein and carbohydrate foods
Caveman Diet
Foods from the Paleolithic Era
1986 Rotation Diet
Rotating number of calories taken in from week to week
1987 Scarsdale Diet
Low-carbohydrate, low-calorie diet plan
1990 Cabbage Soup Diet
Diet from 1950s resurfaces on the Web
1994 High Protein, Low Carb Diet
Dr. Atkin’s version
1995 Sugar Busters — Cut Sugar to Trim Fat
Eliminates refined carbohydrates
1996 Eat Right for Your Type
Diet based on blood type
1999 Juice, Fasting and Detoxification
Perennial dieting favorites reappear in combination
2000 Raw Foods Diet
Focuses on uncooked, unprocessed organic foods
2001 High Protein, Low Carb Diet
1994 diet updated
2004 Coconut Diet
Fats replaced with coconut oil
2005 Cheater’s Diet
Cheating on the weekend is required
2006 Maple Syrup Diet
Features a special syrup-lemon drink

http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/media_11092_ENU_HTML.htm

[rdharper]

look what our good friends at the american dietetic association has decided to release in time for national nutrition month (http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/media_10841_ENU_HTML.htm) .

1820 Vinegar and Water Diet
Made popular by Lord Byron
1825 Low Carbohydrate Diet
First appeared in The Physiology of Taste by Jean Brillat-Savarin
1830 Graham’s Diet
Only legacy: Invented Graham crackers
1863 Banting’s Low Carbohydrate Diet
“Banting” becomes a popular term for dieting
1903 Horace Fletcher promotes “Fletcherizing”
Chew food 32 times
1917 Calorie Counting
Introduced by Lulu Hunt Peters in her book Diet and Health, With Key to the Calories
1925 Cigarette Diet
“Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet”
1928 Inuit Meat-and-Fat Diet
Caribou, raw fish and whale blubber
1930 Hay Diet
Carbohydrates and proteins not allowed at the same meal
Dr. Stoll’s Diet Aid
First of the liquid diet drinks
1934 Bananas and Skim Milk Diet
Backed by the United Fruit Company
1950 Cabbage Soup Diet
Flatulence is listed as a main side effect
Grapefruit Diet
Also known as Hollywood Diet
1960 Zen Macrobiotic Diet
Created by Japanese philosopher George Ohsawa
1961 Calories Don’t Count Diet
FDA filed charges regarding diet’s claims
1964 Drinking Man’s Diet
Harvard School of Public Health declared diet unhealthful
1970 Sleeping Beauty Diet
Individuals heavily sedated for several days
Liquid Protein Diets
Liquid protein drinks were low in vitamins and minerals
1981 Beverly Hills Diet
Only fruit for first 10 days but in unlimited amounts
1985 Fit for Life
Avoid combining protein and carbohydrate foods
Caveman Diet
Foods from the Paleolithic Era
1986 Rotation Diet
Rotating number of calories taken in from week to week
1987 Scarsdale Diet
Low-carbohydrate, low-calorie diet plan
1990 Cabbage Soup Diet
Diet from 1950s resurfaces on the Web
1994 High Protein, Low Carb Diet
Dr. Atkin’s version
1995 Sugar Busters — Cut Sugar to Trim Fat
Eliminates refined carbohydrates
1996 Eat Right for Your Type
Diet based on blood type
1999 Juice, Fasting and Detoxification
Perennial dieting favorites reappear in combination
2000 Raw Foods Diet
Focuses on uncooked, unprocessed organic foods
2001 High Protein, Low Carb Diet
1994 diet updated
2004 Coconut Diet
Fats replaced with coconut oil
2005 Cheater’s Diet
Cheating on the weekend is required
2006 Maple Syrup Diet
Features a special syrup-lemon drink

http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/media_11092_ENU_HTML.htm

Might be more interesting if it was accurate. For instance, Atkins is shown late by 22 years. Atkins has been essentially unchanged since '72. And popular from day one.

It would be more instructive to list the fad "solutions" offered by the medical community which has been culpable for order's of magnitudes more deaths than those trying popular fad diets. And they continue to be legally sanctioned for many more.

[K Walt]

Let's add the AMA, AHA, ADA 'fads'

Eat less. Exercise more. Eat less fat. More plants.

[Calianna]

Might be more interesting if it was accurate. For instance, Atkins is shown late by 22 years. Atkins has been essentially unchanged since '72. And popular from day one.


I took the absence of the early Atkins to mean that they didn't consider it to be a "fad diet" in '72! :lol:

So if anyone asks me why I'm doing a "fad diet", I'll just tell them I'm doing the '72 version of Atkins, because according to the ADA, that's not considered a fad diet.

Hey, if the ADA says it, it must be true!:daze:

[Samuel]

The day Doctor Atkins died I said that the obesity rate will be going down over the years and Dr. Atkins will be remembered as the hero who has saved the world.

Now, two years later, all we hear is ediots talk about his fad diet theory while the obesity rate is getting worse! Anyway, I'll stay on his diet as long as I live. Let them say whatever they say!

[CindySue48]

The AHA diet includes foods that contain or may contain trans fats and/or HFCS (high fructose corn syrup). That alone makes me ignore their advice. Additionally, I checked (with Fitday) the 1200 and 2000 calorie sample meal plans they include on the website. Both were deficient in RDA for several things, most notable was Vitamin E, which was almost non-existant in their plan.

[wannadanc]

At the Fort Nisqually replica in Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, you can see the advertisements for weight loss that were available to the pioneer women
in the mid 1800's.

The trick? Send for and swallow two tapeworm cysts.

I find limited Internet references - Snopes makes comment that this lacks confirming data. Well - maybe - but I had seen the flyer many years before the Internet.

[bkloots]

I think "Oprah's latest" should appear at several points on this list. As much as I sympathize with her weight struggle, she has done more than anyone on the planet to promote some extreme strategies.

The longer I continue on LC/Atkins, the more I appreciate the total health benefits, and not just the weight management aspect, of this lifestyle. Simply turning to fresh foods instead of packaged/processed foods, and eliminating sugar, goes a long way towards preventing the onset of stuff like Type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

But tell it to the Marines...as we used to say.

[pbowers]

1928 Inuit Meat-and-Fat Diet
Caribou, raw fish and whale blubberoh those wacky inuit! what were they thinking? now that most of them have gotten off that insane fad diet and are eating an ADA-style diet, look how much things have improved.

[mrfreddy]

hmmm, they left out the paleo diet, starting 200,000 years ago...

they also left out that nutty low fat diet, started in the 70's, I think...

[Groggy60]

The real fad diet is low fat. It will take a while longer for everyone to realize that.