What Makes A Diet A Celebrity Diet?Celebrity diets usually have some kind of gimmick such as eating the same fruit at every meal, or drinking a special drink. They all are associated with a celebrity that has been successful at maintaining a trim figure or has lost a significant amount of weight.
Celebrity diets usually have some kind of gimmick such as eating the same fruit at every meal, or drinking a special drink. They all are associated with a celebrity that has been successful at maintaining a trim figure or has lost a significant amount of weight. The problem with celebrity diets is that they tend to make you feel fatigued and in a weakened state. Those that encourage a high-fat diet can even encourage the individual to eat a high-fat diet and thus increase their risk for heart disease. Some celebrity diets can even cause serious health risks such as Beyonce's Maple Syrup Diet that involved eating no food and only consuming a beverage made from lemons, maple syrup and cayenne pepper for 10 days. You may see a dramatic weight loss, but you may also see death's door. A crash diet like this can also put your body into starvation mode where the metabolism slows way down and it starts to store fat in response to the starvation that it thinks it is in the midst of. There are some celebrities that have actually made their fortunes promoting their celebrity diets such as Suzanne Somers and her multimillion-dollar business based around her Somersizing diet.
Jennifer Aniston of “Friends” followed the 40-30-30 diet also known as the Zone Diet. She lost 30 pounds on the diet. The Zone diet has been one of the most popular diet search terms for the last 4 or 5 years. Dr. Barry Zone wrote the dietary book, The Zone and it was published in June of 1995. It has sold over 2,000,000 hardcover copies and has been a #1 best seller on the New York Times book list. He wrote a 2nd book called, Mastering the Zone, which was published in 1997. It too became a New York Times best seller. He has written several other dietary books since then. Part of what makes a diet a “celebrity diet” is the following the diet has because of what celebrities are using it. Jennifer Aniston is perhaps the most popular of the celebrities that is on the Zone diet. The Atkins Diet is another diet that has been endorsed by celebrities like Sarah Jessica Parker and Minnie Driver. The Atkins diet has been equally popular with men and women. It has been very popular with those in the modeling industry and those in the entertainment industry. On the Atkins diet you are restricted from eating potatoes, fruit, rice, pasta, and bread and from drinking beverages that contain caffeine or alcohol.
Individuals will embark on a diet simply because they heard or read about a certain celebrity being on the diet. Many fans for instance wondered about which diet Jessica Simpson used to get ready for her "Dukes of Hazzard" movie. The latest word is that the diet she used was the 5 factor diet. According to Us Weekly, the 5 factor diet is the diet that's changing Hollywood. The diet is linked to other Hollywood celebrities like Alicia Keys, Eva Mendes, Kanye West, and John Mayer all Grammy Award winners. Famous Celebrity Diets
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