to think MNHQ should send out a decree banning Bad Science type Diet threads?

[ElizabethHoover]

In the manner of Caesar Augustus?
That detox, juice, thigh only or whatever bad science crap appears on here should be vanquished as just, well silly?

I am sure IABU but it irks, you know?

I have a friend who regularly does the maple syrup and lemon juice diet.

I know it's shit but she's 45 and looks like a very beautiful (and thin) 23 year old.

I'd drink that shit to look 23.

But Root- Imagine how starving you would be.

(I think that Yolanda Foster from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills shit does that diet and she looks amazing)- I cant stop eating like a pig though

when's the Katie Hopkins programme on?

The thing about 5:2 is you don't need to pay a subscription or buy specific foods or pills to do it- it is just "eating less". It didn't work for me ultimately as I couldn't stick to it for long enough but I don't think it is in the same category as other fads.

There 5:2 books, so yes,yes it is still 'faddy'

I most definitely won't be watching the KH programme. ..

(When is it on? )

jan 2nd and 3rd
SO WATCHING

Quick Google says 2nd and 3rd Jan TLC ;)

I won't watch (probably will)

Spending £5 on a 5:2 recipe book which you can use time and time again, don't have to be doing the diet to find them useful, is hardly equivalent to spending hundreds on Herbalife etc though is it?

Diets which are actually dangerous, they're bad, most of them which are just nonsense science are not actually dangerous though, and they often do work - because they change the basic calorie intake / expenditure simply because the change in diet and interest.

And it's difficult to really say "some fad X" is a worse diet than the one that it's often replacing that led to the individual being overweight.

I'd rather there was a disclaimer about doing more exercise added to everyone though, much more important than diet.

There would need to be a disclaimer about the amount of exercise needed too.... jog for 1 mile is about 110 calories expended. Post run treat - 300 calories No wonder it isn't working so well......

Agree with Unescorted re: amount of exercise - burning off 1 Thornton's chocolate (50 calories) takes me at least 6-7 minutes on the Rowing machine. :(

The celebrities who do all these fad diets seem to also have Personal Trainers & work out for 2 hours a day at least...

I prefer not to ban things, and just let the wisdom of MN result in replies of

you are bonkers and your breath will smell, HTH

agree latara

There is no way that those two fat ones from Geordie Shore got so fit in just 10 minutes a day (like they are trying to peddle to me)

here it is

www.uk.tlc.com/

she has a freckly tum

www.uk.tlc.com/shows/katie-hopkins-my-fat-story/

this is better