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DESCRIPTION
The
following popular weight-reducing diets were found to provide inadequate levels
of some necessary nutrients:
•The Atkins Diet
•The Beverly Hills Diet
•The Carbohyrdate Craver’s
Diet
•The California Diet
•The F-Plan Diet
•The I Love America Diet
•The I Love New York Diet
•The Pritikin Diet
•The Richard Simmons
Never-Say-Diet
•The Scarsdale Diet
•The Stillman Diet
The
nutrients most often below the recommended levels included:
• Thiamin • Vitamin B-6
• Vitamin B-12 • Calcium
• Iron • Zinc
• Magnesium • Chromium
Though
this information was published in 1985, many of the diets that have come and
gone since then have the same nutritional problems.
Data
taken from: Fisher, Michele C., Paul A. Lachance. "Nutrition evaluation of
published weight-reducing diets." J. Am Diet. Assoc. 85:450-454
(1985) |
