The Grapefruit Diet, also known as the Hollywood Diet, is an 18-day diet, that dates back to 1930 Hollywood.

There are so many different types of diets these days that I can understand why it can be so stressful on choosing the right one. Sometimes it just seems better off to not even go on a diet at all because all of these new fads have so many types of restrictions on them. Such as you can eat carbs with one, you can eat fat with the other.

Fad diets can do more harm than good as the new year begins.

Fad diets are not as new as they might seem at first. These date back to the mid 19th century when an obese Londoner was prescribed such a diet on experimental basis. Now, after a century and a half, fad diets have become popular among people with weight problems. Teens and young adults especially flock to fad diets for answers to weight problems.

Gary Taubes, an investigative science journalist whose new book, Good Calories, Bad Calories attacks the idea of low-fat, high-exercise dieting as scientifically unsound and unsupported by empirical research, tracing the idea back to a nutritional fad that arose 50 years ago.

Here is the information on the new cabbage soup diet that boasts 10-15lbs of weight loss in a single week. I personally tried this one and lost 15 lbs. in a week. I was able to keep it off after the diet was over. Most people think of it as a fad diet.