Answer the questions:
1. Give an example of a fad diet. What characteristic(s) of this diet let us know that it is a fad diet?
2. How do low-carbohydrate diets cause initial weight loss?
3. What are superfoods? Are they good for us?
4. Which diet fad was popular during the Victorian era?
5. How does your body adjust to the caloric decrease in some diets?
6. Why might marketers emphasize the association between superfoods and ancient cultures?
Something to talk about:
1. Why do you think people keep falling for fad diets? What is it about them that makes them so appealing?
2. Is there a way to maintain a fad diet?