Editing List of diets (section)

== Fad diets ==

{{main|Fad diet}}
A [[fad diet]] is a [[Dieting|diet]] that is popular for a time, similar to [[fad]]s in fashion, without being a standard dietary recommendation, and often promising unreasonably fast weight loss or nonsensical health improvements.<ref name="Hart2018">{{cite book |last1=Hart |first1=Katherine |editor1-last=Hankey |editor1-first=Catherine |title=Advanced nutrition and dietetics in obesity |date=2018 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=9780470670767 |pages=177–182 |language=en |chapter=4.6 Fad diets and fasting for weight loss in obesity.}}</ref><ref name="Hanky2017">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ky5ADwAAQBAJ|title=Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Obesity|last=Hankey|first=Catherine|date=23 November 2017|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9781118857977|pages=179–181|language=en|access-date=21 October 2019|archive-date=12 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112191551/https://books.google.com/books?id=ky5ADwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="bda">{{cite web|url=https://www.bda.uk.com/foodfacts/faddiets.pdf|title=Fact Sheet—Fad diets|year=2014|publisher=British Dietetic Association|access-date=12 December 2015|quote=Fad-diets can be tempting as they offer a quick-fix to a long-term problem.|archive-date=22 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822162710/https://www.bda.uk.com/foodfacts/faddiets.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Oxford2013">{{Cite book|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America|last=Kraig|first=Bruce|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2013|isbn=9780199734962|location=Oxford|pages=623–626}}</ref><ref name="Zoumbaris2014">{{cite book |last1=Zoumbaris |first1=Sharon K. |last2=Bijlefeld |first2=Marjolijn |title=Encyclopedia of diet fads : understanding science and society |publisher=Greenwood |date=25 November 2014 |isbn=9781610697606 |edition=2nd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4jq2BQAAQBAJ |access-date=28 August 2020 |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005121223/https://books.google.com/books?id=4jq2BQAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> There is no single definition of what a fad diet is, encompassing a variety of diets with different approaches and evidence bases, and thus different outcomes, advantages and disadvantages,<ref name="Hanky2017" /> and it is ever-changing.<ref name=Hart2018/><ref name="Hanky2017" /> Generally, fad diets promise short-term changes with little effort, and thus may lack educating consumers about whole-diet, whole lifestyle changes necessary for sustainable health benefits.<ref name="Hart2018" /><ref name="Hanky2017" /><ref name="Williams2013">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vH1EAgAAQBAJ|title=Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: From Alien Abductions to Zone Therapy|last=Williams|first=William F.|date=2 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135955229|pages=107–108|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Shick1998">{{cite journal |author=Shick SM, Wing RR, Klem ML, McGuire MT, Hill JO, Seagle H |title=Persons successful at long-term weight loss and maintenance continue to consume a low-energy, low-fat diet |journal=J Am Diet Assoc |volume=98 |issue=4 |pages=408–13 |date=April 1998 |pmid=9550162 |doi=10.1016/S0002-8223(98)00093-5|last2=Wing |last3=Klem |last4=McGuire |last5=Hill |last6=Seagle }}</ref> Fad diets are often promoted with exaggerated claims, such as rapid [[weight loss]] of more than 1&nbsp;kg/week or improving health by "detoxification", or even dangerous claims.<ref name="Hanky2017" /><ref name="bda" /><ref name="phn">{{cite book |editor=Gibney MJ |author=Flynn MAT |work=Public Health Nutrition |title=Chapter 14: Fear of Fatness and Fad Slimming Diets |year=2004 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-118-69332-2 |pages=236–246}}</ref><ref name="katz">{{cite journal |vauthors=Katz DL, Meller S |title=Can we say what diet is best for health? |journal=Annu Rev Public Health |volume=35 |pages=83–103 |year=2014 |pmid=24641555 |doi=10.1146/annurev-publhealth-032013-182351 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

Since the "fad" qualification varies over time, social, cultural and subjective view, this list cannot be exhaustive,<ref name=Hart2018/> and fad diets may continue or stop being fads, such as the [[Mediterranean diet]].<ref name="BrownIsaacs2010">{{cite book|vauthors=Brown JE, Isaacs J, Krinke B, Lechtenberg E, Murtaugh M|title=Nutrition Through the Life Cycle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qaI8AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA410|year=2011|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=978-1-133-00816-3|page=410|edition=4th}}</ref> Some of them have therapeutic indications, such as epilepsy or obesity,<ref name="EatrightKeto">{{cite web |title=What is the Ketogenic Diet |url=https://www.eatright.org/health/weight-loss/fad-diets/what-is-the-ketogenic-diet |website=eatright.org |language=en |date=April 2019 |access-date=21 October 2019 |archive-date=28 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428215913/https://www.eatright.org/health/weight-loss/fad-diets/what-is-the-ketogenic-diet |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="USGuidelines2013">{{cite journal |last1=Jensen |first1=Michael D. |last2=Ryan |first2=Donna H. |last3=Apovian |first3=Caroline M. |last4=Ard |first4=Jamy D. |last5=Comuzzie |first5=Anthony G. |last6=Donato |first6=Karen A. |last7=Hu |first7=Frank B. |last8=Hubbard |first8=Van S. |last9=Jakicic |first9=John M. |last10=Kushner |first10=Robert F. |last11=Loria |first11=Catherine M. |last12=Millen |first12=Barbara E. |last13=Nonas |first13=Cathy A. |last14=Pi-Sunyer |first14=F. Xavier |last15=Stevens |first15=June |last16=Stevens |first16=Victor J. |last17=Wadden |first17=Thomas A. |last18=Wolfe |first18=Bruce M. |last19=Yanovski |first19=Susan Z. |last20=Jordan |first20=Harmon S. |last21=Kendall |first21=Karima A. |last22=Lux |first22=Linda J. |last23=Mentor-Marcel |first23=Roycelynn |last24=Morgan |first24=Laura C. |last25=Trisolini |first25=Michael G. |last26=Wnek |first26=Janusz |last27=Anderson |first27=Jeffrey L. |last28=Halperin |first28=Jonathan L. |last29=Albert |first29=Nancy M. |last30=Bozkurt |first30=Biykem |last31=Brindis |first31=Ralph G. |last32=Curtis |first32=Lesley H. |author33-link=David DeMets |last33=DeMets |first33=David |last34=Hochman |first34=Judith S. |last35=Kovacs |first35=Richard J. |last36=Ohman |first36=E. Magnus |last37=Pressler |first37=Susan J. |last38=Sellke |first38=Frank W. |last39=Shen |first39=Win-Kuang |last40=Smith |first40=Sidney C. |last41=Tomaselli |first41=Gordon F. |title=2013 AHA/ACC/TOS Guideline for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults |journal=Circulation |date=24 June 2014 |volume=129 |issue=25 Suppl 2 |pages=S102–S138 |doi=10.1161/01.cir.0000437739.71477.ee |pmid=24222017 |pmc=5819889 |type=Professional society guideline }}</ref> and there is no one-size-fits-all diet that would be a panacea for everyone to lose weight or look better.<ref name=Hart2018/><ref name="Hanky2017" /> Dieticians are a regulated profession that can distinguish nutritionally sound diets from unhealthy ones.<ref name=bda/>
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=== Food-specific diets ===
*[[Alkaline diet]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.webmd.com/diet/a-z/alkaline-diets|title=Alkaline Diets|last1=Collins|first1=Sonya|website=WebMD|access-date=13 May 2016|archive-date=4 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504031658/https://www.webmd.com/diet/a-z/alkaline-diets|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Baby food]] diet<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.webmd.com/diet/a-z/baby-food-diet|title=The Baby Food Diet Review|last1=Wait|first1=Mariane|website=WebMD|access-date=13 May 2016|archive-date=25 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225115526/https://www.webmd.com/diet/a-z/baby-food-diet|url-status=live}}</ref>
*Banana and [[skim milk]] diet, a 1934 fad in the US, supported by a banana importer.<ref name=":1" />
*[[Cabbage soup diet]], a recurring fad diet that dates back to the 1950s<ref name="NHS2018">{{cite web |title=How to diet |url=https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-weight/how-to-diet/ |website=nhs.uk |language=en |date=27 April 2018 |publisher=NHS |access-date=21 October 2019 |archive-date=22 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171122105610/https://www.nhs.uk/livewell/loseweight/Pages/how-to-diet.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="globe">Crosariol, Beppi. 9 January 2014,''The Globe and Mail'', "[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/wine/feeling-frugal-after-the-holidays-try-these-11-affordable-wines/article16188101/ Feeling frugal after the holidays? Try these 11 affordable wines] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130205242/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/wine/feeling-frugal-after-the-holidays-try-these-11-affordable-wines/article16188101/ |date=30 November 2020 }}". Retrieved 3 February 2014.</ref><ref name=":1" />
*[[Carnivore diet]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-29|title=Carnivore diet: Definition, benefits, and risks|url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/carnivore-diet|access-date=2021-04-04|website=www.medicalnewstoday.com|language=en|archive-date=13 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413012755/https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/carnivore-diet|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Clean eating]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/11/why-we-fell-for-clean-eating |title=Why we fell for clean eating |last=Wilson |first=Bee |date=11 August 2017 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=10 March 2019 |language=en-GB |archive-date=8 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308133441/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/11/why-we-fell-for-clean-eating |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Cookie diet]]<ref>Bix, Cynthia Overbeck. (2015). ''Fad Mania!: A History of American Crazes. Twenty-First Century Books''. p. 43. {{ISBN|978-1-4677-1034-3}}</ref> 
*[[Egg and wine diet]]<ref>[https://www.morefm.co.nz/home/trending/2018/08/experts-warn-against-the-controversial--egg-and-wine-diet-.html "Experts warn against the controversial 'egg and wine diet'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205225608/https://www.morefm.co.nz/home/trending/2018/08/experts-warn-against-the-controversial--egg-and-wine-diet-.html |date=5 December 2019 }}. Retrieved 5 December 2019.</ref> 
*[[Food combining|Food combining diet]]: A nutritional approach where certain food types are deliberately consumed together or separately. For instance, some weight control diets suggest that proteins and carbohydrates should not be consumed in the same meal.<ref name=sophisticated/>
*[[Fit for Life|Fit for Life diet]]: Recommendations include not combining protein and carbohydrates, not drinking water at meal time, and avoiding dairy foods.<ref name=gale>{{cite book|first=Tish|last=Davidson|chapter=Fit for Life diet|title=The Gale Encyclopedia of Diets: A Guide to Health and Nutrition |editor=Longe, Jacqueline L.|publisher=[[Thomson Gale|Gale, Thomson]]|year=2007|isbn=978-1-4144-2991-5|pages=383–385}}</ref><ref name="famdoc">{{cite web |url=https://familydoctor.org/nutrition-weight-loss-need-know-fad-diets/ |title=Nutrition for Weight Loss: What You Need to Know About Fad Diets |publisher=familydoctor.org |date=August 2016 |access-date=21 December 2016 |archive-date=28 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210328141045/https://familydoctor.org/nutrition-weight-loss-need-know-fad-diets/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Fruitarianism]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Forbes |first1=G. B. |title=Food Fads: Safe Feeding of Children |journal=Pediatrics in Review |date=1 January 1980 |volume=1 |issue=7 |pages=207–210 |doi=10.1542/pir.1-7-207 |s2cid=73160797 }}.</ref>
*[[Gluten free diet]], while essential for people with [[celiac disease]] or [[gluten sensitivity]], has also become a fad.<ref name="LebwoholLudvigsson-quotation">{{cite journal|vauthors=Lebwohl B, Ludvigsson JF, Green PH|date=Oct 2015|title=Celiac disease and non-celiac gluten sensitivity|journal=BMJ|type=Review|volume=351|pages=h4347|doi=10.1136/bmj.h4347|pmc=4596973|pmid=26438584|quote=Some population groups seem to be especially wed to the gluten-free diet, with nearly 50% of 910 athletes (including world class and Olympic medalists) adhering to a gluten-free diet, mainly because of the perceived health and energy benefits.}}</ref><ref name="nytimes">[http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/gluten-free-whether-you-need-it-or-not/ Gluten-Free, Whether You Need It or Not] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210312185630/http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/gluten-free-whether-you-need-it-or-not/ |date=12 March 2021 }}. ''The New York Times''.</ref><ref name="CBS">{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gluten-free-diet-fad-are-celiac-disease-rates-actually-rising/|title=Gluten-free diet fad: Are celiac disease rates actually rising?|date=31 July 2012|publisher=CBS News|quote=People buy gluten-free food "because they think it will help them lose weight, because they seem to feel better or because they mistakenly believe they are sensitive to gluten."|access-date=17 April 2020|archive-date=12 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112081316/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57483789-10391704/gluten-free-diet-fad-are-celiac-disease-rates-actually-rising/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Grapefruit diet]]<ref name="globe" /><ref name="KYfad">{{cite web |url=http://www2.ca.uky.edu/hes/fcs/factshts/fn-ssb.119.pdf |last1=Bastin |first1=Sandra |title=Fad Diets |publisher=University of Kentucky Extension Service |date=March 2004 |access-date=21 October 2019 |archive-date=21 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721092734/http://www2.ca.uky.edu/hes/fcs/factshts/fn-ssb.119.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Lamb chop and pineapple diet]]<ref>Addison, Heather. (2000). ''Hollywood, Consumer Culture, and the Rise of "Body Shaping"''. In David Desser, Garth Jowett. ''Hollywood Goes Shopping''. University of Minnesota Press. p. 22. {{ISBN|0-8166-3512-9}}</ref> 
*[[Macrobiotics]], a fad diet in the 1960s<ref name="famdoc" /><ref name=":1" />
*[[Morning banana diet]]<ref>Toyama, Michiko. ''Time'', 17 October 2008, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20081018222843/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1850454,00.html Japan Goes Bananas for a New Diet]" Accessed 1 July 2011.</ref>
*[[Mucusless Diet]]<ref>Butler, Kurt; Rayner, Lynn. (1985). ''The Best Medicine: The Complete Health and Preventive Medicine Handbook''. Harper & Row, Publishers, San Francisco. pp. 133–135. {{ISBN|0-06-250123-2}}</ref><ref>Howard, Rosanne Beatrice; Herbold, Nancie Harvey. (1978). ''Nutrition in Clinical Care''. McGraw-Hill. p. 276. {{ISBN|978-0070305458}}</ref> 
*[[Paleolithic diet]]: Can refer either to the eating habits of humans during the [[Paleolithic]] era, or of modern dietary plans purporting to be based on these habits.<ref>{{cite web|author=NHS|date=9 May 2008|title=Caveman fad diet|url=http://www.nhs.uk/news/2008/05May/Pages/Cavemanfaddiet.aspx|website=nhs.uk|access-date=21 October 2019|archive-date=25 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170725212012/http://www.nhs.uk/news/2008/05May/Pages/Cavemanfaddiet.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Frassetto |first1=L A |last2=Schloetter |first2=M |last3=Mietus-Synder |first3=M |last4=Morris |first4=R C |last5=Sebastian |first5=A |title=Metabolic and physiologic improvements from consuming a paleolithic, hunter-gatherer type diet |journal=European Journal of Clinical Nutrition |date=August 2009 |volume=63 |issue=8 |pages=947–955 |doi=10.1038/ejcn.2009.4 |pmid=19209185 |s2cid=7434149 |doi-access=free }}</ref>  The modern version was popular in the 2010s.<ref name=":1" />
*[[Mark Hyman (doctor)#Peganism|Pegan diet]] 
*[[Rhubarb diet]]
*[[Superfood]] diet
*[[Whole30]] diet<ref>{{Citation |url=http://www.foodinsight.org/whole30-diet-review-health |title=Fad Diets: The Whole30 |publisher=International Food Information Council Foundation |date=25 July 2017 |access-date=21 October 2019 |archive-date=3 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003123453/https://www.foodinsight.org/whole30-diet-review-health |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Low-carbohydrate / high-fat diets ===
*[[Low-carbohydrate diet]]<ref name="globe" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.med.umich.edu/cvc/pdf/FadLowCarbDiet.pdf |title=Fad diets: Low Carbohydrate Diet Summaries |access-date=21 October 2019 |archive-date=28 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128174057/http://www.med.umich.edu/cvc/pdf/FadLowCarbDiet.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Atkins diet]], from 1994<ref name="KYfad" /><ref name="famdoc" /><ref name="matters">{{cite journal |last1=Daniels |first1=June |title=Fad diets: Slim on good nutrition |journal=Nursing |date=December 2004 |volume=34 |issue=12 |pages=22–23 |doi=10.1097/00152193-200412000-00016 |pmid=15617206 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=":1" />
*[[Bulletproof diet]]<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/the-bulletproof-diet-simplistic-invalid-and-unscientific/ "The Bulletproof Diet: simplistic, invalid and unscientific"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200309133248/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/the-bulletproof-diet-simplistic-invalid-and-unscientific/ |date=9 March 2020 }}. ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''. Retrieved 24 November 2018.</ref> 
*[[Drinking Man's Diet]], publicized in 1964 and promoting a high-fat, low-carb diet with alcoholic beverages<ref>Tunc, Tanfer Emin. (2018). [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20549547.2018.1434353?journalCode=rfgf20 ''The “Mad Men” of Nutrition: The Drinking Man’s Diet and Mid-Twentieth-Century American Masculinity''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215190148/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/20549547.2018.1434353?journalCode=rfgf20 |date=15 December 2019 }}. ''Global Food History'' 4 (2): 189–206.</ref>
*[[Dukan Diet]]<ref name="webmd" />
*[[Hamptons Diet]]<ref>Rastogi, Shweta. (2010). ''Eat Right To Stay Bright: Manage Diet To Manage Disease''. Popular Prakashan. p. 63. {{ISBN|978-81-7991-582-0}}</ref><ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/eat-beet-lose-pounds-and-five-other-dietary-fads-5351453.html "Eat beet, lose pounds (and five other dietary fads)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222193738/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/eat-beet-lose-pounds-and-five-other-dietary-fads-5351453.html |date=22 December 2019 }}. Retrieved 22 December 2019.</ref> 
*"Keto" or [[Low-carbohydrate diet#Ketogenic diet|ketogenic diet]] (but for the purpose of weight loss instead of epilepsy seizures reduction)<ref name="EatrightKeto" /><ref name=bda-2018>{{cite web |publisher=British Dietetic Association |title=Top 5 worst celeb diets to avoid in 2018 |date=7 December 2017 |url=https://www.bda.uk.com/news/view?id=195 |quote=The British Dietetic Association (BDA) today revealed its much-anticipated annual list of celebrity diets to avoid in 2018. The line-up this year includes Raw Vegan, Alkaline, Pioppi and Ketogenic diets as well as Katie Price's Nutritional Supplements. |access-date=22 October 2019 |archive-date=29 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171229193022/https://www.bda.uk.com/news/view?id=195 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/ketogenic-diet-is-the-ultimate-low-carb-diet-good-for-you-2017072712089|title=Ketogenic diet: Is the ultimate low-carb diet good for you?|last=MD|first=Marcelo Campos|date=27 July 2017|website=Harvard Health Blog|access-date=21 October 2019|archive-date=9 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009043259/https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/ketogenic-diet-is-the-ultimate-low-carb-diet-good-for-you-2017072712089|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Pioppi Diet]]<ref name="bda2018">{{cite web |publisher=British Dietetic Association |title=Top 5 worst celeb diets to avoid in 2018 |date=7 December 2017 |url=https://www.bda.uk.com/news/view?id=195 |author=British Dietetic Association |access-date=22 October 2019 |archive-date=29 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171229193022/https://www.bda.uk.com/news/view?id=195 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Protein Power]]<ref>Stare, Fredrick John; Whelan, Elizabeth M. (1998). ''Protein Power by Michael R. Eades, M.D., and Mary Dan Eades, M.D.'' In ''Fad-Free Nutrition''. Hunter House Inc. pp. 205–207. {{ISBN|0-89793-237-4}}</ref>
*[[Rosedale diet]]<ref name=sbm>{{cite web |author=Harriet Hall |date=2 June 2015 |publisher=[[Science-Based Medicine]] |title=The Rosedale Diet: Here We Go Again |url=https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-rosedale-diet-here-we-go-again/ |access-date=25 July 2020 |archive-date=25 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725134602/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-rosedale-diet-here-we-go-again/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Salisbury diet]]<ref>Akis, Eric. (2017). [https://www.timescolonist.com/life/food-drink/eric-akis-the-original-low-carb-diet-1.10086154 "The original low-carb diet"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021161203/https://www.timescolonist.com/life/food-drink/eric-akis-the-original-low-carb-diet-1.10086154 |date=21 October 2019 }}. ''[[Times Colonist]]''. Retrieved 2 December 2018.</ref>
*[[Stillman diet]]<ref>Kuske, Terrence T. ''Quackery and Fad Diets''. In Elaine B. Feldman. (1983). ''Nutrition in the Middle and Later Years''. John Wright & Sons. p. 297. {{ISBN|0-7236-7046-3}}</ref>
*[[Sugar Busters]]<ref name="famdoc" /><ref name="matters" />
*[[Zone diet]]: A diet in first published in 1995 which a person attempts to split calorie intake from carbohydrates, proteins and fats in a 40:30:30 ratio.<ref name="famdoc" /><ref name="KYfad" /><ref name=bbcatkins>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6422619.stm "Study backs worth of Atkins diet"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313045354/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6422619.stm |date=13 March 2007 }}. BBC News. 7 March 2007. Retrieved 13 February 2012.</ref><ref name=":1" />
* Other high-fat variants.
*[[Scarsdale medical diet]]<ref name="KYfad" /><ref name="StJames">Tina Gianoulis, "Dieting" in the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture Ed. Thomas Riggs. Vol. 2. 2nd ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 2013. p106-108. {{ISBN|978-1-55862-847-2}}</ref><ref>[http://www2.ca.uky.edu/hes/fcs/factshts/fn-ssb.119.pdf Fad Diets] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721092734/http://www2.ca.uky.edu/hes/fcs/factshts/fn-ssb.119.pdf |date=21 July 2020 }} Sandra Bastin, Ph.D., R.D., L.D. Cooperative Extension Service. University of Kentucky – College of Agriculture. March 2004. Retrieved 28 August 2015</ref><ref>Jane E Brody for the New York Times. 3 June 1981 [https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/03/garden/personal-health-another-entry-in-the-anals-of-fad-diets.html?pagewanted=all Personal Health: Another Entry in the Annals of Fad Diets] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608135054/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/03/garden/personal-health-another-entry-in-the-anals-of-fad-diets.html?pagewanted=all |date=8 June 2019 }}</ref><ref>Southern Nevada Health District. 2015 [http://www.gethealthyclarkcounty.org/spotlights/80s-fad-diets.php Back to the 80s: Fad Diets] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170618074935/http://www.gethealthyclarkcounty.org/spotlights/80s-fad-diets.php |date=18 June 2017 }}</ref>
*[[South Beach Diet]]<ref name="KYfad" /><ref name="DeBruyne">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GaEKAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT209|title=Chapter 7: Nutrition in practice — fad diets|vauthors=DeBruyne L, Pinna K, Whitney E|work=Nutrition and Diet Therapy|publisher=Cengage Learning|year=2011|isbn=978-1-133-71550-4|edition=8th|page=209|quote='a fad diet by any other name would still be a fad diet.' And the names are legion: the Atkins Diet, the Cheater's Diet, the South Beach Diet, the Zone Diet. Year after year, 'new and improved' diets appear ...}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=People to watch |journal=Nature Medicine |date=January 2006 |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=29 |doi=10.1038/nm0106-29 |s2cid=26068107 |quote=James Hill wants Americans to shed pounds. But instead of promoting any one fad diet, he embraces most--Atkins, South Beach, grapefruit-only--as relatively effective ways to lose weight. }}</ref>
*[[The 4-Hour Body]]<ref>Hiatt, Kurtis. 1 March 2011, ''U.S. News & World Report'', "[http://health.usnews.com/health-news/diet-fitness/diet/articles/2011/03/01/the-4-hour-bodydoes-it-deliver-results 'The 4-Hour Body'—Does It Deliver Results?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221102201/http://health.usnews.com/health-news/diet-fitness/diet/articles/2011/03/01/the-4-hour-bodydoes-it-deliver-results |date=21 February 2014 }}".</ref>

===High-carbohydrate / low-fat diets===
*[[F-plan]]<ref>Speakman, John R. (2003). ''Obesity:- Part three – failed solutions and new ideas''. ''Biologist'' 50 (3): 1–6.</ref>
*[[Ornish diet]]<ref name="famdoc" /><ref>Ayers, Suzan F; Sariscsany, Mary Jo. (2011). ''Physical Education for Lifelong Fitness: The Physical Best Teacher's Guide''. National Association for Sport and Physical Education. p. 65. {{ISBN|978-0-7360-8116-0}}</ref> 
*[[McDougall diet]]<ref name=free>{{cite book |author=Stare FJ, Whelan EM |title=Fad-Free Nutrition |publisher=Hunter House |year=1998 |isbn=9780897932363 |chapter=Book review:The McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss by John A. McDougall M.D. |pages=202–203 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NTCA8hYgQfkC&pg=PA203}}</ref>· 
*[[Pritikin Diet]]: A diet which focuses on the consumption of unprocessed food.<ref name="famdoc" /><ref name="globe" /><ref name="Alters2012">{{cite book |vauthors=Alters S, Schiff W |work=Essential Concepts for Healthy Living |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VegUiVbruBMC&pg=PA327 |date=22 February 2012 |publisher=Jones & Bartlett Publishers |isbn=978-1-4496-3062-1 |page=327 |edition=Sixth |title=Chapter 10: Body Weight and Its Management}}</ref>
*[[Rice diet]]<ref name="Alters2012"/>
*[[The Good Carbohydrate Revolution]]<ref name="famdoc" />

=== Liquid diets ===
*[[Liquid diet]]s
*[[Cambridge Diet]]<ref name="famdoc" />
*[[Slim-Fast]]<ref name="famdoc" />
*[[KE diet]]

=== Fasting ===
*[[5:2 diet]]<ref name="NHS2018" />
*[[Inedia|Breatharian diet]]: A diet based on a belief that people can sustain with spirituality and sunlight alone, but leads to starvation and devotees have been spotted eating and drinking in hiding.<ref name="Wdowik2017">{{cite web |last1=Wdowik |first1=Melissa |title=The long, strange history of dieting fads |url=https://theconversation.com/the-long-strange-history-of-dieting-fads-82294 |website=The Conversation |access-date=21 October 2019 |language=en |date=7 November 2017 |archive-date=18 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018184441/http://theconversation.com/the-long-strange-history-of-dieting-fads-82294 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Top 5 Worst Celebrity Diets to Avoid in 2014 |url=https://www.bda.uk.com/news/131125BadDiets.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322130340/https://www.bda.uk.com/news/131125BadDiets.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 March 2014 |website=bda.uk.com |date=22 March 2014}}</ref>
*[[Dubrow Diet]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/0119p10.shtml |title=Ask the Expert: Fad Diets in 2019 By Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN Today's Dietitian Vol. 21, No. 1, P. 10 |access-date=18 December 2019 |archive-date=30 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030213424/https://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/0119p10.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Intermittent fasting]]<ref name="Hart2018"/>
*[[Juice fasting]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Do Juice Cleanses Work? 10 Truths About The Fad |date=27 May 2015 |work=HuffPost |author=Valiant M |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/03/22/do-juice-cleanses-work_n_1372305.html |access-date=21 October 2019 |archive-date=17 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817124825/https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/03/22/do-juice-cleanses-work_n_1372305.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Orthopathy]]<ref>Barrett, Stephen; Herbert, Victor. ''Questionable Practices in Foods and Nutrition: Definitions and Descriptions''. (2002). In Carolyn D. Berdanier. ''Handbook of Nutrition and Food''. CRC Press. p. 1493. {{ISBN|0-8493-2705-9}}</ref>
*[[Protein-sparing modified fast]]
*[[Sleeping Beauty diet]], a 1976 diet in which people were sedated with drugs so they would not eat for several days.<ref name=":1" />

=== Detoxifying ===
*[[Detox diet]]<ref name="BDA2019">{{cite web |title=BDA Releases Top 5 Celeb Diets to Avoid in 2019 |url=https://www.bda.uk.com/news/view?id=224&x[0]=news/list |website=bda.uk.com |access-date=28 October 2019 |date=7 December 2018}}</ref><ref name="webmd">webmd.com, 22 April 2011, "[http://blogs.webmd.com/whats-new/2011/04/are-fad-diets-worth-the-risk.html Are Fad Diets Worth the Risk?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221142144/http://blogs.webmd.com/whats-new/2011/04/are-fad-diets-worth-the-risk.html |date=21 February 2014 }}". Retrieved 3 February 2014.</ref>
*[[Fat Flush Plan]]<ref>{{cite web |author=Maureen Callahan |url=http://www.health.com/health/article/0,,20410202,00.html |title=Fat Flush – Diet Fitness |publisher=Health.com |access-date=2 March 2016 |archive-date=18 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191218105652/https://www.health.com/health/article/0,,20410202,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Elin|first1=Abby|title=Flush Those Toxins! Eh, Not So Fast|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/fashion/22skin.html|access-date=4 March 2016|work=The New York Times|date=21 January 2009|archive-date=10 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810105619/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/fashion/22skin.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Knibbs|first1=Kate|title=Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop Consults 'Fat Flush' Diet Quack About 'Cell Phone Toxicity'|url=https://gizmodo.com/gwyneth-paltrows-goop-consults-fat-flush-diet-quack-abo-1755838662|access-date=4 March 2016|work=Gizmodo|date=28 January 2016|archive-date=7 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200107195927/https://gizmodo.com/gwyneth-paltrows-goop-consults-fat-flush-diet-quack-abo-1755838662|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Master cleanse|Lemon detox diet]]<ref name="finder.com">{{Cite web| url=https://www.finder.com/ca/best-fad-diets-weight-loss| title=8 fad diets and how they work| date=5 April 2019| access-date=21 October 2019| archive-date=1 October 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001203055/https://www.finder.com/ca/best-fad-diets-weight-loss| url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="worst">news.com.au. 8 January 2014, "[http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/the-worst-diets-of-2013-and-the-best-for-2014/story-fneuzkvr-1226797295697 The worst diets of 2013 – and the best for 2014] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319233143/http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/the-worst-diets-of-2013-and-the-best-for-2014/story-fneuzkvr-1226797295697 |date=19 March 2014 }}". Retrieved 3 February 2014.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nancykalish.com/files/The_Juice_Cleanse_-_NY_Times.pdf|title=The Juice Cleanse: A Strange and Green Journey|last1=Newman|first1=Judith|work=The New York Times|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415223428/http://www.nancykalish.com/files/The_Juice_Cleanse_-_NY_Times.pdf|archive-date=15 April 2018|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref>
*[[Activated charcoal cleanse|Activated charcoal diet]]<ref name=TheConversation2019>{{cite web |last1=Collins |first1=Clare |last2=Ashton |first2=Lee |last3=Williams |first3=Rebecca |title=The science behind diet trends like Mono, charcoal detox, Noom and Fast800 |url=https://theconversation.com/the-science-behind-diet-trends-like-mono-charcoal-detox-noom-and-fast800-120080 |website=The Conversation |access-date=2 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827223147/https://theconversation.com/the-science-behind-diet-trends-like-mono-charcoal-detox-noom-and-fast800-120080 |archive-date=27 August 2019 |date=28 August 2019}}</ref>
*[[Wheatgrass diet]]<ref>[https://www.ncahf.org/articles/s-z/wheatgrass.html Wheatgrass Therapy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621170857/https://www.ncahf.org/articles/s-z/wheatgrass.html |date=21 June 2018 }}. National Council Against Health Fraud.</ref>

=== Other fad diets ===
*[[Blood type diet]]: A 1996 diet based on a belief that people's diets should reflect their [[blood type]]s.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="famdoc" /><ref name="BDA2019" /><ref>Walden, Celia (16 June 2010). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100619140504/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/wellbeing/7833488/The-blood-type-diet-Weight-loss-need-not-be-in-vein.html "The blood-type diet: Weight loss need not be in vein"]. ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''. Retrieved 13 February 2012.</ref>
*[[Cotton ball diet]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bijlefeld|first1=Marjolijn|author2=Sharon K. Zoumbaris|title=Encyclopedia of Diet Fads: Understanding Science and Society, 2nd Edition: Understanding Science and Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4jq2BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA195|date=25 November 2014|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-61069-760-6|pages=195–|access-date=28 August 2020|archive-date=17 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231117175222/https://books.google.com/books?id=4jq2BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA195|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="ABC">{{cite news | url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/dangerous-diet-trend-cotton-ball-diet/story?id=20942888 | title=Dangerous Diet Trend: The Cotton Ball Diet | work=ABC News | date=21 November 2013 | access-date=23 November 2013 | author=Neporent, Liz | archive-date=28 January 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128172308/http://abcnews.go.com/Health/dangerous-diet-trend-cotton-ball-diet/story?id=20942888 | url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Immune Power Diet]]<ref>Barrett, Stephen; Jarvis, William T. (1993). ''The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America''. Prometheus Books. pp. 151–152. {{ISBN|0-87975-855-4}}</ref>
*[[Werewolf diet]]<ref>[https://www.prevention.com/weight-loss/a20466875/the-werewolf-diet-is-the-latest-celebrity-diet-craze/ The Latest Diet Fad That Involves...Werewolves? Oh, And Moons] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222195834/https://www.prevention.com/weight-loss/a20466875/the-werewolf-diet-is-the-latest-celebrity-diet-craze/ |date=22 December 2019 }}. Retrieved 22 December 2019.</ref>