Survey of very-low-calorie weight reduction diets. I. Novelty diets
Newmark, S.; Williamson, B.
Archives of Internal Medicine 143(6): 1195-1198
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-9926 PMID: 6860048 Document Number: 212466
Novelty diets which have been popular for several years, purport to have a scientific basis and are gaining in popularity are reviewed. Those include the "rice diet", specific foods diets, the Beverly Hills diet, Dolly Parton diet, K-28 which is based on the Krebs cycle, the Simeons diet which is given with injections of human chorionic gonadotropin, and the zen macrobiotic diet. A table shows the daily energy range and carbohydrate, protein and fat supplied by some of those diets and also by a diet for endocrine disorders and the new enzyme-catalyst diet; side-effects and comments are included.