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Trainer Justin Gelband has been called the "model whisperer," so when he talks about the diets of Victoria's Secret models, we listen.

In a recent interview with Business Insider, Gelband opened up about which diets he's in favor of and which he urges his clients to stay away from.

In the pro column: following a Paleo diet, also known as the caveman diet. The diet cuts out processed foods, dairy, and most grains in favor of protein, fruits, veggies, and nuts. (For an even stricter version, there's the Whole30.)

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Gelband puts his foot down when it comes to juice cleanses though, particularly if you're trying to lose weight. He told Business Insider,"At Fashion Week, some models went on a juice diet and didn't tell me. Not one lost weight, some actually gained weight. That got me in big trouble."

This is likely welcome news to anyone who's tried a juice cleanse, most of which involve severely restricting your calories (and getting seriously hangry). Here's what's going on once you dip below around 1,200 calories a day, your body starts to hold on to calories, slowing down your metabolism.

It's worth noting that if you're, say, on a yoga retreat in Bali, Gelband can make a case for a temporary juice diet.

"There's a time and place for juice fasting, just not for weight loss," Gelband told Business Insider.

As for his own diet, he told blog Nutrition Stripped his regular meals include egg white omelettes, protein shakes, grilled veggies and lean meats, plus occasional burgers and fish tacos.

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Over the past several years, Tom Brady has become notorious for an unusual and highly specific diet that has not only become the lifeblood for how he trains, but has actually become a profitable little side hustle.

Brady has a new book coming out, "The TB12 Method,"that is already a bestseller. (See the cover art here.) That's in addition to his $200 cookbook that is routinely sold out and his TB12 delivery meal service. It feels like this all sort of popped up very recently, but Brady actually revealed in an interview with Willie McGinest on NFL Network that he started to head in this direction well over a decade ago.

And, in fact, it was apparently McGinest who approached Brady before the 2004 season, with Brady already a two-time Super Bowl champion, and told him that if he didn't change his diet and training regimen, he would struggle to stay healthy throughout his career.

"I love playing and I think all of the work that I've been able to do has really set me up for this. I've been working hard for a long time. Because of you," Brady told McGinest. "When I was out here in 2004 and couldn't go through a training camp practice without being hurt. You said, 'Listen, this is what you've got to do, you've got to go work with Alex [Guerrero]. You've got to start preventing these injuries, because it's no good if you're sitting on the sideline.' From that day, my elbow hasn't hurt, my shoulder hasn't hurt.

"And you just incorporate those continuing treatments with the right diet, the right nutrition, you keep doing it. That's what I love talking about, because I love football and I want to keep doing it for a long time."

Brady has long said that he wants to play until he's 45 years old. It sure does feel like an impossible feat, but he is already 40 and he is playing at a high level, having just completed an MVP-caliber season (if he had played all 16 games he might have won it) that culminated in the greatest Super Bowl comeback ever and another Super Bowl MVP award.

It's something that apparently has been in the works for a long time. It would be easy to assume that around the age of 35 Brady started to change his diet and incorporate new and different technology, dietary habits and exercise activities into his day-to-day routine. But it turns out it actually happened way back in 2004, when Brady was just a young (well, 27, but still) quarterback who was already feeling the wear and tear of the NFL growing on his body.

Now Brady feels better than he did a decade ago, and has shown no signs of slowing down as he gets older.

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The social network has strict rules about the advertisements it allows, prohibiting before-and-after pictures, pornography, snake oil and aggressive business offers.

But the companies that sell these shady products are, not shockingly, comfortable breaking Facebook's policies. Some partake in a practice called "cloaking," where they direct Facebook's algorithms and human reviewers to a legitimate landing page, while sending unsuspecting users somewhere else entirely.

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Facebook (FB, Tech30) announced on Wednesday it has increased its efforts over the past few months to crack down on "bad actors," identifying them and banning them from the service. It said it has caught thousands of advertisers breaking the rules during that time.

"It's been an industry problem for many years," said Rob Leathern, a product management director at Facebook who specializes in fighting fraud. "We've stepped up enforcement in the preceding months and we've spoken to different people in the industry. ... We want to get the message out to the bad actors and let them know that it won't tolerate it."

The problem isn't unique to Facebook. Cloaking is done by spammy advertisers on Google and Microsoft, as well. Leathern said Facebook is looking for industry-wide solutions to the problem and could collaborate with other big services.

Related: Facebook is now cracking down on spammy sites

It's the most recent in a string of minor announcements Facebook has made this year about its attempts to clean up content and ads in the news feed.

The effort started after outrage over "fake news" stories that went viral on the site during the U.S. presidential election. Facebook responded by making a number of tweaks like partnering with fact checking organizations and cracking down on bots. Most recently, it announced it's giving stories that load faster better placement in the News Feed and bumping down links to stories that have more ads than text.

Although most casual users probably won't notice the minor changes, together they could help repair damage to the company's reputation caused by recent influxes of spam and propaganda.

"The volume is pretty low, but we know that it can be a pretty jarring or negative experience for our users," said Leathern.

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RICHMOND, Virginia -- Washington Redskins tackle Trent Williams does not sit in the cafeteria and gaze at teammates trays or get wistful as he smells whats being cooked. When Williams sits down to another vegan meal, hes not fighting an urge to push his plate aside and dive into one that includes meat.

He's happy with what's on his plate.

Temptation is something that comes along when youre doing something you dont want to do, Williams said. Its a choice. Theres no temptation. No one is policing me saying I can or cant eat meat. It was a decision on my part.

One that hell keep doing. Williams touts the Redskins offensive line as Hogs 2.0, but Hogs 1.0 were full of beer-drinking, meat-eating players. Williams, though, keeps looking for an edge, and this offseason that included altering what he eats. Theres a family history of diabetes, but theres also a desire by the five-time Pro Bowler to play a long time and find any way to maintain an advantage. There has been no drop-off in his performance during camp.

How much longer he continues eating vegan remains uncertain. Williams month doing so ended Sunday, and hes debating if he should stick to it or, per the advice of his nutritionist, add fish a few times a week.

Ill never go back to eating like I used to, Williams said.

Williams started on this path in part because of a documentary called What the Health. But, he said, he was already contemplating a change. When he decided to do it, he went (pun intended) cold turkey.

I set a date that I wanted to do it, and before that day leading up to it, I binged on everything I thought I would miss, Williams said. Barbecue, Mexican food, a good steak. All the stuff I had eaten a lot.

Heres a look at Williams typical meals now, compared with the past:

Breakfast: A smoothie, with fruit and kale. Williams adds a vegan protein supplement given to him by a nutritionist. Hell usually have two smoothies, totaling between 20 and 24 ounces. That suffices until lunch. In the past, Williams ate what he called a typical breakfast: a big omelet, maybe a waffle.

Lunch: Lately, he has been eating pasta with mushrooms or spinach and sometimes tofu. If he wants something with more substance, hell add french fries. Something that sticks to my stomach a little longer, he said. That holds him through the 3 p.m. practice. Before, Williams was like most of his teammates at lunch, eating a variety of food -- but always something with meat.

Dinner: Lately, he has had a lot of stir-fry vegetables or various forms of pasta, topped with vegetables. He goes heavy on the carbs to maintain energy and to help stay hydrated. But his favorite meal so far: a portobello mushroom burger. That was pretty good. Actually, it was real good, Williams said. It had a lot of flavor. After meetings, hell down another smoothie, around 20 ounces. Dinner before his new diet? Meat.

[Before], sometimes Id eat lunch and feel it in my stomach for hours, Williams said. Sometimes, Id feel sluggish. Sometimes I wouldnt eat breakfast before 1 p.m. games because I knew it would make me sluggish. Now I eat breakfast and my body burns it the right way.

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Williams consulted with Redskins nutritionist Jake Sankal. Teammate Jordan Reed tried a vegan diet in the offseason but stopped because he felt he was losing too much weight. That was an issue for Williams early on as well. He played last season at 323 pounds, but he dipped below 310 after going vegan.

To be honest, I was scared to get on a scale, Williams said. I didnt want to scare myself out of it.

But he said he now weighs right around 320.

Hes in a good spot weight-wise, as good a weight as hes ever had around here, said Redskins coach Jay Gruden, who has lost 22 pounds on his own altered regimen of improved diet and exercise. We will see how it goes, but hes in contact with Jake.

The hardest food to give up, Williams said, was cheese and dairy in general. It has forced him to closely scan ingredient lists, and its why he now eats kettle chips as a snack rather than Cheetos or Doritos.

He did indulge one time, celebrating his 29th birthday on July 19 with a burger.

I tried to treat myself, but it ended up hurting, Williams said. It tasted good going down but sat in my stomach all night. During my workout [the next day], I could feel it the whole time. It took longer to digest than it used to.

Teammates pepper him with questions, wondering if they should try it, as well, including safeties D.J. Swearinger, Will Blackmon and DeAngelo Hall, who is looking for any help in recovering from last seasons torn ACL. Guards Arie Kouandjio and Isaiah Williams joined Williams over the last month.

You feel an overall difference with your energy, Williams said. I just feel better. ... If it keeps me healthier, why not?

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Ancel Keys, arguably the most influential nutrition scientist of the past half-century, died in 2004 at the age of 100. Keys invented the K ration, named for him, that provided our deployed military with portable and complete nutrition. He was among the first, if not the first, to hypothesize that heart disease was not an inevitable consequence of aging but likely related to diet and lifestyle.

Obvious as that now seems, someone had to be the first to consider it and that someone was Ancel Keys. He developed and directed the Seven Countries Study, a colossal undertaking that tested the above hypothesis, concluding that variation in dietary sources of saturated fat notably meat and dairy contributed importantly to cardiovascular risk.

Throughout most of his life, Keys was celebrated as a public health hero. He graced the cover of TIME Magazine as such in 1961. In the years leading up to his death, however, and in the decade since, much of the public commentary about Keys, his lifes work, his seminal Seven Countries Study, and his integrity has been derogatory. There are five apparent reasons for this.

The first is perhaps best described as Newtonian: for every action, an equal and opposite reaction. Maybe we simply cant resist the inclination, whenever someone settles securely on a pedestal weve placed under them, to shift our efforts to knocking them down.

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The second might best be described as Aesopian, as in the Aesops Fable that says: we are all judged by the company we keep. The latter years of Keys life, and those since his death, were concurrent with misguided forays into low-fat dietary boondoggles, and somebody had to be blamed for Snackwells. In many quarters, that somebody wound up being Ancel Keys, for having pointed out the harms of dietary fat albeit only certain dietary fat in the first place.

The third reason is that everyone seems to love a good conspiracy theory. So, there were careers to launch and books to sell, as there are today, by telling us all that everything authorities had advised was wrong, that the real truth was being concealed, distorted or suppressed. As one of the worlds preeminent epidemiologists, Keys was among such authorities, and thus an obvious target of conspiracy theory, revisionist history and alternative facts.

The fourth reason was the advent of the internet.

Once upon a time, you needed actually to know something to broadcast expertise, because an editorial filter stood between you and the public at large. There were ways around this, of course, such as the reliance on celebrity as an alternative to content knowledge as a basis for selling books, lotions, potions or programs. But even so, the means of disseminating messages favored those with some claim to genuine merit.

Now, anyone with internet access can broadcast opinion, masquerading as expert opinion, into the echo chambers of cyberspace, where those who own the same opinion already will amplify it. So, for instance, those totally devoted to eating or selling meat, butter and cheese are also apt to eat up, and regurgitate, any allegations against those pointing out the related liabilities.

The fifth is the most obvious: along with not wearing plaid, dead men dont fight back very effectively, either. Keys has mostly been turned into a scapegoat since dying. By way of reminder, he lived to 100 and applied what he thought he knew about diet and lifestyle to himself. That alone would make him a candidate for both celebrity and expert status today. One imagines the book: Diet of the Century.

The popular allegations against Keys are: (1) he cherry picked countries to enroll in his study to align with the beliefs he already held; (2) he fudged or selectively presented data to make a case aligned with the beliefs he favored; (3) he either failed to study sugar or misrepresented findings about it; and (4) he advocated for a now generally discredited low-fat dietary pattern.

The True Health Initiative, a 501c3 nonprofit organization I founded to identify and disseminate the fundamental truths about lifestyle and the health of people and planet alike, based on the weight of evidence and the global consensus of experts, commissioned a White Paper to determine the veracity of these claims. The paper, with its extensive and fully transparent bibliography of primary source material, was just released, and is accessible to all. The basic conclusion is that all popular disparagements of Keys and his research are demonstrably false.

Lies, repeated often enough, can smother the truth. After a decade of lies about Ancel Keys and the Seven Countries Study, its time for the truth to break free, and strike back clad in plaid or otherwise.

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(Reuters Health) - People who eat a lot of saturated fat - the bad kind of fat thats abundant in foods like butter and beef - are more likely to develop lung cancer than individuals on low-fat diets, a recent study suggests.

Compared to adults who didnt get a lot of fat in their diets, people who ate the most total fat and saturated fat were 14 percent more likely to get lung malignancies, the study found. For current and former smokers, the added risk of a high fat diet was 15 percent.

While the best way to lower the risk of lung cancer is to not smoke, a healthy diet may also help reduce lung cancer risk, said study co-author Danxia Yu of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Specifically, our findings suggest that increasing polyunsaturated fat intake while reducing saturated fat intake, especially among smokers and recent quitters, may (help prevent) not only cardiovascular disease but also lung cancer, she said.

The American Heart Association recommends the Dietary Approaches To Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet or a Mediterranean-style diet to help prevent cardiovascular disease. Both diets emphasize cooking with vegetable oils with unsaturated fats, eating nuts, fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy products, whole grains, fish and poultry, and limiting red meat and added sugars and salt.

Those guidelines are the same for avoiding heart disease, stroke and diabetes, and I would say they are also exactly the same for helping with cancer prevention in general and lung cancer in particular, said Dr. Nathan Berger, a researcher at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center who wasnt involved in the study.

This doesnt mean you need to throw away all the steak and butter in your freezer, but cutting back to once a week would be good for you, Berger said in a phone interview.

For the current study, researchers examined data from 10 previously published studies in the United States, Europe and Asia that looked at how dietary fat intake influences the odds of lung malignancies.

Combined, the smaller studies had more than 1.4 million participants, including 18,822 with cases of lung cancer identified during an average follow-up of more than nine years.

Researchers sorted participants into five categories, from lowest to highest consumption of total and saturated fats. They also sorted participants into five groups ranging from the lowest to highest amounts of dietary unsaturated fats.

Overall, people who ate the most unsaturated fats were 8 percent less likely to develop lung cancer than people who ate the least amounts, researchers report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Substituting five percent of calories from saturated fat with unsaturated fat was associated with a 16 percent lower risk of small cell lung cancer and 17 percent lower odds of another type of lung malignancy known as squamous cell carcinoma.

One limitation of the study is that dietary information was only obtained at one point, the authors note. This makes it impossible to track how changes in eating habits might influence the odds of cancer.

They also didnt account for two other things that may contribute to cancer sugar and trans fats, Glen Lawrence, a biochemistry researcher at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York, said by email. Previous research has also found that unsaturated oils may increase the risk of certain cancers, added Lawrence, who wasnt involved in the current study.

Its also possible that other bad eating habits, not fat, contribute to the increased risk of lung cancer, said Ursula Schwab of the Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition at the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio.

We need antioxidants, vitamins and minerals as well as unsaturated fatty acids, Schwab, who wasnt involved in the study, said by email. A typical Western diet has a low content of these essential nutrients and a high content of saturated fat.

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Will & Gracealum andGood Luck Charliestar Leigh-Allyn Baker opens up about motherhood and her sons daily battle with dyspraxia in an exclusive five-partPEOPLEseries. (Read part 1here, part 2here, part 3hereand part 4 here.)

You wont find any gluten in Leigh-Allyn Bakers home but dont call it a junk-free space.

They dont eat chemical junk, but they still get to eat junk they just eat natural junk, Baker tells PEOPLE of her and husband Keith Kauffmans two sons:Baker James, 4, and Griffin Samuel, 8.

When theres a birthday party, my kids get a cake, they just get one without gluten, soy and dairy, and without artificial colors, she adds.

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Baker whose older son Griffinhas thedevelopmental disorder dyspraxia says that her familys gluten-, dairy-, soy- and artificial-color-free diet has been really important to keeping her kids healthy.

Scientists know, doctors know: Heal the gut, heal the brain, says theGood Luck Charlieactress. And so I want to create the best atmosphere possible for neurons to fire in his brain. So, to do that, I heal his gut.

The star says that the diet has had positive results with Griffin and Baker, explaining, Its been evident in the blood work.

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Additionally, little Baker whom the actress previously revealed suffers from speech issues has celiac disease. In fact, when she removed gluten from her younger childs diet, his nearly year-long struggle to speak ended.

Thats how important it is to the brain, Baker says. They do not eat any artificial dyes or food coloring. We happen to be very reactive to that. A rash will appear all over our body. Its not just hyperactivity or bad behavior or memory loss thats incurred on the body.

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Reuters Health - Eating foods high in fiber, such as those found in a Mediterranean diet, was tied to a lower risk of gallbladder surgery in a recent French study.

Compared to people who didnt follow a Mediterranean diet pattern, those who adhered to it most closely had a significantly lower likelihood of needing a cholecystectomy, which is the medical term for an operation to remove the gallbladder, say the authors.

We found that higher intakes of legumes, fruit, vegetable oil, and (whole grain) bread were associated with decreased cholecystectomy risk, and a higher intake of ham was associated with higher risk of cholecystectomy, wrote the authors in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.

About 700,000 cholecystectomies are performed every year in the United States, according to the American College of Surgeons. Most are the result of blockage due to gallstones.

Gallstones are very common, but most of them are asymptomatic, meaning people have no symptoms. If you don't have any symptoms from your gallstones, there's no reason to have your gallbladder removed, said Dr. James Lewis, a gastroenterologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia who was not part of the study.

The vast majority of people with gallstones never have problems from them, Lewis said in a phone interview.

When they do cause problems, then having your gallbladder removed is completely appropriate, he said.

The new study, led by Dr. Amelie Barre at the University of Paris Sud in Orsay, used information on nearly 64,000 women who were born between 1925 and 1950 and covered by a national insurance plan. Every two years, they answered questions about their health status, medical history, and lifestyle.

Over the course of 18 years, 2,778 of the women had their gallbladder removed.

Women who ate the most legumes, fruits, vegetable oil, and whole grain bread were anywhere from 13 to 27 percent less likely to have gallbladder surgery than were women who ate the least of those foods.

A western dietary pattern - including high consumption of processed meat, canned fish, eggs, rice, pasta, appetizers, pizza, potatoes, cakes, and alcohol - was not linked with either a higher or lower risk for the surgery. There was, however, an association of ham intake with cholecystectomy risk.

But when researchers assigned a Mediterranean diet score to all participants, they found that women with the highest scores were 11 percent less likely to have the surgery compared to women with the lowest scores.

This type of observational study cant prove that a Mediterranean diet was the reason for womens lower risk of gallbladder surgery, or that ham intake caused a higher risk. Furthermore, dietary intakes were self-reported at just one point in time. The reports may not have been accurate, and womens diets may have changed over time.

Still, Lewis said, the Mediterranean-style diet has consistently been shown to be associated with living longer.

If people really want to think about what they should be eating in order to increase their longevity, it's very easy for me to recommend to them that they should try and follow a Mediterranean-style diet, he said.

In fact, the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently advised Americans to follow a diet that is very similar to a Mediterranean-style diet, Lewis noted. (bit.ly/2vHSL8h)

This is just one of many reasons that we should be following that style diet. If you look at the published literature on dietary patterns, what you'll see is that Mediterranean-style diet has been associated with a reduced overall mortality but also reduced cardiovascular mortality (and) reduced risks of cancer, he said.

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If youre eating the Standard American Diet, a ketogenic diet, Atkins or another high fat diet, then you may inadvertently be increasing your colon cancer risk. Thats because research shows that high fat diets increase the risk of this serious form of cancer.

Recent research in the medical journal Stem Cell Reports found that eating a high fat diet increases the risk of colorectal cancer. The researchers also identified a cellular pathway that drives the growth of cancer stem cells in the colon, thereby contributing to the disease. Colorectal cancer,also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer or rectal cancer, is the third most common type of cancer in North America, next to lung cancer.

Many high fat diets are also high in processed meat, such as bacon, sausage or luncheon meats, and red meat, which also have been linked to colorectal cancer, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). New research in the Journal of Gastroenterology confirmed the WHOs conclusions about these meat products. Diets high in animal protein in general have also been linked to colorectal cancer.

High fat diets are not the only contributors to colorectal cancer. Sadly, many of the processed, prepared and fast foods found in high fat diets also contain two food additives that add insult to injury. Two commonly-used emulsifiers used by the food industry: carboxymethylcellulose and polysorbate 80. Carboxymethylcellulose is frequently labeled cellulose gum on product labels. Polysorbate 80 is often just referred to as polysorbate or called Tween 80. According to Georgia State University research, both of these food additives contribute to the risk for colorectal cancer.

Id rather not just be the bearer of bad news. So, heres some good news to counter your risk of colorectal cancer: your daily coffee may actually be helping you to thwart this often-deadly cancer. According to research in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, & Prevention researchers found that your daily java may significantly reduce your colorectal cancer risk. In this study, researchers found that drinking 1 to 2 cups of coffee daily reduced colorectal cancer risk by 26 percent while drinking at least 2.5 cups daily cut the risk in half.

Eating a diet high in chlorogenic acid has also been found to reduce colorectal cancer risk. In addition to coffee, other foods that contain chlorogenic acid include: apples, carrots, flaxseeds, pineapples, potatoes and strawberries.

Eating a plant-based diet high in fiber can also reduce your risk. Add legumes, whole grains, fruit and vegetables to take advantage of the fiber but also the many plant-based nutrients known as phytonutrients that can cut your cancer risk.

I probably dont need to tell you that it is also important to quit smoking and start exercising to further reduce your colorectal cancer risk.

High fat diets are not only linked to colon cancer. Other research shows that a high fat diet prior to conception of a child and during the pregnancy increases the risk of breast cancer and mental illness in later years in the offspring. Check out my blog High Fat Diet Raises Breast Cancer and Mental Illness Risk in Offspring for more information.

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Dr. Michelle Schoffro Cook, PhD, DNM is the publisher of the free e-news Worlds Healthiest News, president of PureFood BC, and an international best-selling and 20-time published book author whose works include: The Life Force Diet: 3 Weeks to Supercharge Your Health and Get Slim with Enzyme-Rich Foods.

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If you want to lose weight, theres always the option of eating less. Of course, that may be too complicated a solution for many of us who want to see quick results, like losing eight pounds before going out for dinner tonight with friends we havent seen since high school.

Instead, you could always follow one of these popular dieting plans:

The Atkins Diet. Named after the renowned guitarist Chet Atkins, this diet requires you to try to eat while you are also trying to remember the chord progression of I Wanna Hold Your Hand. Nutritionally speaking, this is like trying to tap your head, pat your tummy and solve a quadratic equation at the same time. You will become so frustrated trying to do it all you will give up food completely during this diet and never be able to solve a quadratic equation.

The Low-Fat, High-Carb Diet. Whenever you sit down at the table, you divide your food into those with a low amount of fats, like celery stalks and facial tissues, which you put on the left. High-carb foods, like your Subarus carburetor, you put on the right. You stare at both piles, then you pull up pictures of Twinkies on your smartphone and begin to salivate, thus losing water weight.

The High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet. This is exactly like what the Low-Fat, High-Carb Diet feels like when it is staring in the mirror.

The South Beach Diet. Spend all the time you would normally devote to eating walking south on the beach and scorching your toes on burning hot sand. This will keep your mind off Twinkies, unless you happen to step on a discarded Twinkie wrapper. For dietary variety, step on some jagged sea shells, which will take your mind off your scorched toes.

The Mediterranean Diet. On this diet, you are allowed to only eat highly seasoned water that has been imported directly from the Mediterranean and put in an expensive bottle that you might be able to dangle from your belt loop. The premium version of the diet includes an all-expenses-paid trip to Greece and a stay at an AirBnB where the hosts are impossibly thin and extra virgin.

The Paleo Diet. The idea behind this diet is that if you could hunt and gather it, you can eat it. That means yes to meats, fruits and veggies, but no to Devil Dogs, caramel popcorn and Good & Plenty, unless you have a license to hunt Good & Plenty during the fall breeding season.

Remember, no cereal grains, legumes, dairy and potatoes on this diet, which makes it difficult. But while research isn't conclusive, one small study has found that after three weeks on this diet, subjects had dropped an average of five pounds, mainly by tearing their hair out.

The Good & Plenty Diet. For breakfast, eat the white ones first, then the pink ones. Then for lunch, work in the opposite direction, balancing your intake. For dinner, gobble them both up at the same time. You may not lose weight, but youll make your dentist happy.

Neil Offen can be reached at theneiloffencolumn@yahoo.com. Past columns can be found at http://www.theneiloffencolumn.wordpress.com.

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