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Food faddism - Definition and Overview

Food faddism and fad diet are terms which refer to the tendency for idiosyncratic diets and eating patterns. A fad diet is supposed and promoted to improve health but may do nothing at all, or even have the opposite results if it is nutritionally unbalanced and unconfirmed by science.

Food faddism is common in New Age spirituality - compare Breatharianism.

Some of the scientific community say that food faddism is merely born of ignorance about basic scientific dietary facts.

Diets commonly accused of faddism:

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