CELEBRITY FAD DIETS!

Celebrity Diets:
There is at least one way celebrities are just like us--they're always on a diet too! Here, we see which diet plans the stars love and what makes each one effective.

 

Jessica Simpson

The Zone: This is diet based around the idea the each meal should have 40% carbs, 30% protein and 30% fat. While you can follow the diet using normal food, there are supplements, diet bars and shakes you can buy that are approved under this plan. Just keep in mind that they can be costly. According to the diet's creator, this allows the body's hormones to balance out and also to release a insulin that contributes to weight loss. You can drink one alcoholic beverage a day under this plan, but you need to exercise three to five times a week for at least 30 minutes.

 

 Jennifer Aniston.

The South Beach diet: Developed by an American cardiologist, this diet is all about getting back to basics with whole grain breads, lean meats and cutting out saturated fats generally found in take away food. A key part of the diet is to avoid foods that have a high glycemic index, that is carbs with higher glucose levels. These are foods the body struggles to break down.

 

Bill Clinton.

The Whole food diet: This diet requires that you eat low fat unprocessed, that is organic foods. This macrobiotic diet focuses on lean protein and cutting out rich carbs. This is also a diet high in fibre.

 

 Madonna.

Three-hour diet: This diet is aimed at increasing your metabolism by eating every three hours. Each day slimmers on this program eat three main meals, two snacks plus a treat. Exercise is highly recommended with this plan and should include 10,000 steps each day plus eight minutes of strength exercises a week. The plan's creators say you can lose around four and a half kilograms.

 

Jessica Biel.

However, experts agree that fad diets are ultimately drastic diets, and drastic diets just don't work, they have disastrous effects both from a physiological and an emotional point of view.

 

Jane Waterhouse is Weight Watchers' program director, and says none of these diets would work in the long-term.

 

"So physiologically what happens is that when people go onto these fad diets, their physiology changes, and they lose weight both from fat and their muscle, but when they gain it back, they are just gaining fat," Ms Waterhouse says.

 

Spice Girl

Atkins Diet /Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is a fan of the well-known, but sometimes controversial Atkins Diet. With a basis premise of eating mostly protien and not as much carbs and sugars, this does usually result in rapid weight loss. But does it stay off is the ultimate question. More on the Atkins Diet.

 

Sharon Stone

This celebrity program, that claims Sharon Stone and Tori Spelling as one-time followers, suggests that moderation is the key to losing weight. Unlike other low-carb, low-sugar diets, Sugar Busters allows you to eat certain sugars and fruits; but eating refined and processed sugar is discouraged. More on Sugar Busters.