Celebrity Fad Diets – which ones do the Stars fall for?

Fad Diets - do Celebrities Fall for Them too?

The first of the celebrity fad diets recorded was the Vinegar and Water Diet which originated from Lord Byron in the year 1820.  It is still being used today by regular people and celebrities alike.

The singer “Fergie” claims her flat stomach is credit to this Vinegar Diet. 

The “Physiology of Taste” by Jean Brillit-Savarin first published the low carbohydrate diet. 

This fad is a diet very popular amongst celebrities.  There are other very popular low-carb diet ideas and books around such as The Zone, Suzanne Somers’ Get Skinny on Fabulous Foods and The Carbohydrates Addict’s Diet.

In 1917 there was the introduction of calorie counting diets.  Lulu Hunt Peters began this with the book “Diet and Health, With Key to the Calories”.  This was a huge boost for cigarette companies when the idea came out with the slogan, “Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet”. 

Celebrities were then often seen smoking on television which encouraged a lot of people to start smoking in their bids to lose weight. Not something seen today.

1934 saw the introduction of the Bananas and Skim Milk Diet which was vastly encouraged by the United Fruit Company. 

The Cabbage Soup Diet then came into fashion in the 1950’s.

This soup diet was the basis for liquid protein diets which celebrities had going for a little while.  It was then found out that no one could operate on just liquids because they were so low in vitamins and minerals.

Engelbert Humpredink, Maria Shriver, Jack Nicholson and Jodie Foster have all allegedly been on the Beverly Hills Diet which ground into action in 1981.

In 1987 there was a new low-carb, low calorie fad diet called the Scarsdale Diet.  This diet was based on eating lots of protein which would reduce calories – hence, weight would be lost.

Celebrity detox diets became popular in 1999 - the new fads of drinking juice, detoxification and fasting amongst celebrities became the next best thing to do to stay trim and looking good.

In 2000 these then turned into eating raw foods or high protein, low carb diets.  Demi Moore is rumoured to have tried eating all raw foods.  Don’t think it helped.  Not really recommended either.

This century has had some more new and rather inventive ideas such as the cheater’s diet, coconut diet and the syrup diet.  Apparently Jennifer Aniston tried the coconut diet and Beyonce reckons she lost 20 pounds on the maple syrup diet (she obviously wasn’t having it with pancakes  ). 

This “maple syrup” diet was made up of lemon juice, cayenne pepper, water and maple syrup.  It was intended to be a fast detox diet. 

Such fad diets are terrible for your body according to Nutritionists as it causes muscles to diminish and your body is left weakened and hungry.

Celebrity fad diets come and go often just as quickly as some of the celebrities themselves. 

Usually a diet becomes popular not by the evidence of its success but usually by a popular celebrity promoting it.  And then that goes and a new diet replaces it.

Thank goodness some celebrities are nutritionally minded enough to not get sucked into trying fad diets.  But this is not always the case. 

Often the pressures of their surroundings and lifestyle can make them forget about doing what is good for them and cause them to try some of these crazy celebrity crash diets.