Dieting myth

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Dieting myth is a common misconception of the strategies that help to achieve weight loss and then maintain a healthy weight. In general, a fad diet is also a dieting myth. Sometimes, dieting myths are created on purpose to boost sales of a product as a diet aid.

The most common dieting myths include:

• Crash dieting
• Fad diets like, for example, the Grapefruit diet
• Skipping meals
• Rapid weight loss without exercises and diet changes
• Fat-burning foods

[edit] References

• Seven of the biggest dieting myths exposed. Calorie Counter. Retrieved on June 5, 2006.