Having just turned the corner on the most food-obsessed time of year, many people are heading straight for diet season. If you are among the many New Year's resolution dieters, you may need to watch more than your waistline. However, the lure of quick, easy weight loss is hard to resist. Although the diets are ineffective, weight-loss hopefuls willingly give the next craze a chance. If you're planning to start a new diet, why not check out these facts before jumping on the fad diet bandwagon.
Some diets tout one food with special properties that can cause weight loss.
Eating just one food while excluding others can result in weight loss because eating the same food becomes boring and you end up not eating the food or enough to maintain your weight. These diets don't teach healthy eating habits and are usually not nutritionally balanced. What they don't tell you is that people are eating more calories which is the real reason they are gaining weight. Fiber-rich foods are filling and because fiber cannot be digested, it doesn't have calories. Although too much is not always better.