Many people love following the latest Hollywood fad, whether it’s the latest fashion trends put out by a good looking actress on the red carpet, or the newest diet craze. A lot of attention came to Kombucha Tea after Lindsay Lohan was seen with a can, while the egg diet took on an entirely new level after news of this diet leaked from Adrian Brody’s camp. Then you sometimes here about a variety of cleanse or flush diets that all come out of Hollywood from somewhere. Some are confirmed, some of them may have just borrowed the name “Hollywood” to get some attention. Like fads in so many other areas though, you need to ask yourself: is this really a good idea?
In fact, if you look around online you might be surprised just how many diets get their informal names from celebrities who underwent those diet plans or have even just been rumored to be on them. For example, earlier in 2011 there was a lot of news about the so called Renee Zellweger diet which wasn’t even a full diet plan but talked about the use of seaweed being incorporated as part of a healthy diet. Does seaweed by itself make up a great diet plan? That’s a pretty solid no – and there are plenty of practicality matters here but there are plenty of cultures who use seaweed in conjunction with rice, fish, and other healthy foods to promote good eating habits. Would you be able to make a full diet out of it? Not in most places.
Then you have the diet plans that aren’t necessarily for losing weight, but are actually aimed at helping someone gain positive weight. These are generally high protein diets that encourage working out to build muscle mass. Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man 2 Dietis one major example of this. This plan wasn’t to lose weight, but to create more of an action hero physique, which just goes to show when you hear something like “Hollywood Diet” you need to do more research to see what you’re getting into.
Renée Zellweger (Image via RottenTomatoes.com)
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