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fad diets

fad diets is the plural of fad diet.

Meaning of fad diet

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
  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

Questions about fad diets

What is fad diets the plural of?
Fad diets is the plural of fad diet.

Words near fad diets in the dictionary

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

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