{"id":182,"date":"2008-06-25T01:18:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T23:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/wordpress\/the-worst-diets-ever\/"},"modified":"2015-08-11T11:35:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T15:35:36","slug":"the-worst-diets-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/the-worst-diets-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worst Diets Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WebMD site has a nice little article on crash diets, called &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/diet\/obesity\/worst-diets-ever-diets-that-dont-work\" rel=\"noopener\">The Worst Diets Ever: Diets That Don&#8217;t Work<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 While it doesn&#8217;t call out very many diets by name, it provides a good set of guidelines on how to evaluate a diet program.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What does a bad diet look like?\u00a0 The author, Kathleen Zelman, offers 5 criteria to ID which ones to avoid:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diets that focus on only a few foods or food groups<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Detox&#8221; diets<\/li>\n<li>Diets with &#8220;Miracle&#8221; foods or ingredients<\/li>\n<li>Fasting and very low calorie diets<\/li>\n<li>Diets that sound too good to be true<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the whole thing: it&#8217;s a good reality check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WebMD site has a nice little article on crash diets, called &#8220;The Worst Diets Ever: Diets That Don&#8217;t Work.&#8221;\u00a0 While it doesn&#8217;t call out very many diets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10121,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/10121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}