?It seems like a new fad diet arrives every year, and millions of people try that diet once it arrives. Fad diets remain so popular because people desperately want to lose weight. When they can't lose weight on one diet, they latch on to the next diet.

Take for example the South Beach Diet, which involves three separate phases. During the first phase, dieters stop eating sugar starch. With each additional phase, users incorporate new foods to the diet. The Atkins Diet is just as popular because it focuses primarily on protein. Dieters reduce the amount of carbohydrates and starches that they eat, and the dieters increase their protein intake.

Some diets prey on those who want something simple and easy to follow, including the raw diet. This diet lets the user eat anything he wants as long as the food is raw. The cabbage soup diet was another easy to follow fad diet because dieters primarily ate cabbage soup that they made themselves. Some fad diets such as the Hollywood Diet and Hollywood Cookie Diet require dieters to buy a large number of products as part of the diet plan. The Hollywood Cookie Diet, for example, requires the consumption of several cookies every day, which are only available from the company.

The reason why so many fad diets fail is that the diets only last for a few weeks or months. Many of the popular diets work, but the diets stop working when the person goes back to her regular eating habits. Other diets fail because the dieters grow bored of eating the same thing for weeks at a time. Then there are the diets that do not work because the users cannot afford to follow the diet plan. Plans that require specific foods are often too expensive for ordinary people to use. The failure of one diet leads to dieters jumping on the next fad that comes along.

?It seems like a new fad diet arrives every year, and millions of people try that diet once it arrives. Fad diets remain so popular because people desperately want to lose weight. When they can't lose weight on one diet, they latch on to the next diet.

Take for example the South Beach Diet, which involves three separate phases. During the first phase, dieters stop eating sugar starch. With each additional phase, users incorporate new foods to the diet. The Atkins Diet is just as popular because it focuses primarily on protein. Dieters reduce the amount of carbohydrates and starches that they eat, and the dieters increase their protein intake.

Some diets prey on those who want something simple and easy to follow, including the raw diet. This diet lets the user eat anything he wants as long as the food is raw. The cabbage soup diet was another easy to follow fad diet because dieters primarily ate cabbage soup that they made themselves. Some fad diets such as the Hollywood Diet and Hollywood Cookie Diet require dieters to buy a large number of products as part of the diet plan. The Hollywood Cookie Diet, for example, requires the consumption of several cookies every day, which are only available from the company.

The reason why so many fad diets fail is that the diets only last for a few weeks or months. Many of the popular diets work, but the diets stop working when the person goes back to her regular eating habits. Other diets fail because the dieters grow bored of eating the same thing for weeks at a time. Then there are the diets that do not work because the users cannot afford to follow the diet plan. Plans that require specific foods are often too expensive for ordinary people to use. The failure of one diet leads to dieters jumping on the next fad that comes along.