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Interviewer: Answering this week's Listener Question is Registered Dietician, Kary Woodruff. Kary the question, "Are fad diets safe and healthy for me to be on?"
Kary: It's a great question and it's really hard to say specifically one diet is, one diet isn't. But here my recommendation is, is the diet sustainable? So is this something that you could see yourself doing, you know, one to 10 years from now? Some things to kind of consider, or red flags I should say for less healthy fad diets would be diets that cut out entire food groups, right. So if a diet cuts out greens, and dairy, and legumes, right, that would . . .
Interviewer: Like the smoothie diet's probably not a thing that you should be trying then.
Kary: Right, correct. And or a diet that asks you to eat the same thing every day. Right, that's not very sustainable.
Interviewer: Nuts.
Kary: Yeah, we get bored of it, right? So that's not going to be very sustainable. Is there something that we can do in our day to day life that includes social functions, right? So if we're avoiding social functions because it doesn't accommodate our diet, then I would challenge that's not a very sustainable approach.
Interviewer: So pretty much the answer's no, right? There are no good, safe fad diets out there?
Kary: Typically not, it usually comes back to balance, moderation, and variety.
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