The Apple Cider Vinegar Diet Video

The apple cider vinegar diet may promise more than it can fulfill and trend diets that are often too good to be true. Try these tips for buying diet foods in this healthy shopping video.

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Fad diets are often unsustainable
Too good to be true
Look for balance & exercise in diet
No miracle foods

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Michelle Cooper has been a registered dietician for more than 10 years. She currently works for the state of North Carolina for the New Hanover County School District in the Child Nutrition Department as the supervising registered dietician on staff. She specializes in child nutrition, child fitness and overall child health. She enjoys her job because it allows her to be a pivotal piece of child development.

MICHELLE COOPER: Next, we're going to talk about the apple cider vinegar diet. This diet proposes that by drinking two to three teaspoons of apple cider vinegar with each meal, you will lose weight. Like most fad diets, it fails to show whether the weight loss is due to a decrease in portion size of foods and increased energy expenditure or from, in fact, drinking the apple cider vinegar. The things the you want to look for when analyzing a diet are number one, does it sound too good to be true? Is it promoting a miracle food or combination of foods that's going to promote weight loss? Number two, are they promoting a safe rate of weight loss? Not more than one to two pounds of weight is recommended; anything over that is too rapid. It took a while to gain the weight; it's going to take a while to lose the weight. Number three, does the diet incorporate some kind of physical activity or exercise program? And lastly, is it a style of eating that you can maintain for a period of time that doesn't exclude any foods or food groups or combinations? The apple cider vinegar diet, although it promotes a safe rate of weight loss and incorporates physical activity, is promoting apple cider vinegar to be a miracle food. Sounds too good to be true, it's probably is.

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