Brits Obsessed With Going On Diets

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Main Category: Nutrition / Diet
Also Included In: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness;  Eating Disorders;  Psychology / Psychiatry
Article Date: 09 Jan 2008 - 10:00 PDT

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About one third of British adults are on a diet all the time, according to a survey carried out by YouGov on behalf of supermarket chain, Tesco. Those most likely to be on a diet and counting their calories carefully are the over-55s, the survey found.

According to healthcare professionals, approximately 60% of all British adults will be overweight by the middle of this century if current trends continue. It has been estimated that 70,000 British lives could be saved if people complied with government eating guidelines.

According to the survey, 15% of adults in the UK spend at least 30 minutes of each day worrying about their bodyweight. 5% of women in the survey said they spend more than three hours a day worrying about their weight.

44% of men and 60% of women say they are trying to lose weight so that they may feel better about themselves. 20% of the men surveyed said that their main aim for dieting was to improve their love life. Apparently, many men would like to lose their love handles to spice up their sex lives. 10% of both men and women said being slimmer would add sparkle to their performance in the bedroom.

There are literally thousands of different diets on this planet. Some work very well, some work moderately well, while some are just a waste of money and time. Here is a list of the most common diets that exist today.

Most Common Diets Today
Wikipedia Link To Diet List Page

-- 100-Mile Diet control
-- Abs Diet
-- Alkaline diet
-- Atkins diet
-- Banta Diet
-- Best Bet Diet
-- Blood Type diet
-- Body for Life
-- Breatharian diet
-- Buddhist diet
-- Cabbage soup diet
-- Calorie restriction
-- The Cambridge Diet
-- Candida control diet
-- Cretan diet
-- Detox diet
-- Diabetic diet
-- Diet for a New America by John Robbins
-- The Diet Smart Plan
-- Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension or the DASH Diet
-- Dr. Hay diet
-- Fast-5 Diet
-- Fat Resistance Diet
-- Fat Smash Diet, The
-- Feingold diet
-- Fit for Life diet
-- Flexitarian diet
-- Food combining diet
-- Fruitarian diet
-- Gerson diet
-- Gluten-free, casein-free diet
-- Glycemic Index diet
-- The Graham Diet
-- Grapefruit diet
-- Hacker's diet
-- Halal diet
-- Hallelujah diet
-- High protein diet
-- Hunza diet
-- Jenny Craig
-- Joel Fuhrman diet
-- Junk food diet
-- Kosher diet
-- Lacto vegetarianism
-- Lean for Life
-- Liquitarian diet
-- Living foods diet
-- Low-carbohydrate diet
-- Low-protein diet
-- Macrobiotic diet
-- Master Cleanse
-- Mediterranean diet
-- Montignac diet
-- Natural Foods Diet
-- Natural Hygiene diet
-- Negative calorie diet
-- No-Grain Diet
-- Okinawa diet
-- The Optimal Diet
-- Organic food diet
-- Ornish Diet
-- Ovo-lacto vegetarian diet
-- Paleolithic-style diet
-- Perricone diet
-- PersonalDiets
-- Pescetarian diet
-- Plant-based diet
-- Pollotarian diet
-- Pritikin diet
-- Rastafarian diet
-- Raw foodism
-- Rice Diet/Duke University diet
-- Sara's Diet
-- Scarsdale Diet
-- Sex Diet
-- Shangri-La Diet
-- Slimming World diet
-- Sonoma diet
-- South Beach diet
-- Stillman diet
-- Sugar Busters
-- T-Factor Diet
-- Total Wellbeing Diet (CSIRO)
-- Vegan diet
-- Vegetarian diet
-- Very low calorie diet
-- Wai Diet
-- Warrior Diet
-- Weigh Down diet
-- Weight Watchers
-- Western pattern diet
-- Zone diet

Despite being on lots of diets, the British are getting fatter. Health care professionals say that unless you adopt a long-term lifestyle change diets are unlikely to make much long-term difference to your weight.

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Written by - Christian Nordqvist
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