Welcome.

This website explores some of the issues surrounding fad diets. It has mainly looked at the GI Diet and the Atkins Diet as they were the most topical at the time of writing.

If you want a website that reveals the secret to dieting there are plenty out there but let me do it all for you now. The best way to control weight is through a healthy balanced diet and exercise, but then I suspect you knew that already. To read the British Nutrition Foundation recommendations click here.

Contrary to popular belief, fad dieting is not a new phenomenon. We have been seeking advice about eating since 12000 BC. To read our dieting history compiled by the Social Issues Research Centre click here.

There are other issues often linked to dieting that this website has not explored in great depth such as obesity and anorexia which are serious medical conditions and merit a different approach. If you would like more information, please visit the useful links on the homepage...

*Note: Since this website began, Marjorie Burte is no longer regional manager for Atkins Nutritionals Inc. The company went into receivership in March 2005 and many staff were made redundant in the months that followed. read more...

Website created by Elelia Ferro for MA Multi-Media Journalism project at Bournemouth University.

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