The Paleo Diet: Fact or Fiction?

Project Report from the year 2012 in the subject Health - Nutritional Science, , language: English, abstract: As many Americans know, dieting is a fad that will likely never go out of fashion. From purposely ingesting parasites to having surgery to remove fat, people will go to great lengths to achieve what they see as a perfect body. Multiple programs that cost varying amounts of money exist. Common diets include Weight Watchers, Atkins, and diets that only consist of expensive supplements. Many of these diets either do not work, or work temporarily. The weight sometimes returns as soon as said diet is ended. The Atkins diet was similar to the Paleo diet. It was low carb, and seemed to work. This persists to today with the rise in popularity in Paleo diets, or caveman diets. It can be considered a fad diet even though it has been around since the 1930's.