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fad diet

/fæd ˈdaɪət/

fad diet noun: a restrictive diet whose main goal is short-term weight loss.

Noun

fad diet (plural fad diets)

  1. A restrictive diet whose main goal is short-term weight loss.
    • The diet revives old food friends unjustly scorned by fad diets: breads, cereals […]1979, Nathan Pritikin, The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise
    • Last week, another in a seemingly endless stream of fad diets hit the best-seller list. If as many Americans as bought these miraclepromising books actually lost a significant amount of weight and kept it off, the market for future fads would soon disappear.1981 June 3, Jane E. Brody, “Another Entry in the Annals of Fad Diets”, in New York Times
  2. A diet that is popular only for a short time, a novelty diet; a fad in food.
    • Usually a fad diet will take one idea that research has shown to be somewhat beneficial and take it to the extreme. A good example of this is the statement “Eat seaweed at every meal.”2009, Brandi Sentz, Kelli Glass, How to Eat Fried Chicken, and Be Thin Too, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 33

Forms of fad diet

pluralfad diets

Questions about fad diet

What does fad diet mean?
Fad diet means a restrictive diet whose main goal is short-term weight loss.
What part of speech is fad diet?
Fad diet is a noun.
How do you pronounce fad diet?
Fad diet is pronounced /fæd ˈdaɪət/.
What is the plural of fad diet?
The plural of fad diet is fad diets.

Words near fad diet in the dictionary

  1. facundious
  2. facundity
  3. Facundo
  4. Facundos
  5. fad
  6. fad diet
  7. fad diets
  8. fada
  9. fadable
  10. fadaise
  11. fadaises

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