Bread for Life

In a complete reversal of many of the low-carb modern diets, the Bread for Life diet plan requires you to eat large quantities of bread on a regular basis. The Bread for Life premise is that eating basic, comforting...

Subway Diet

While there is no official Subway diet, Jared Fogle lost 245 pounds by skipping breakfast and eating Subway sandwiches twice a day. He also began walking on a daily basis. Subway introduced Jared Fogle in 2000 as the...

Body for Life

The Body for Life, or Eating for Life, diet and exercise plan was created by bodybuilder Bill Phillips as a comprehensive body makeover plan whose goal is to provide lifelong improvements in nutrition and overall...

Best Bet Diet

The Best Bet Diet’s primary purpose is to help control and treat Multiple Sclerosis. The rules of this diet are quite simple and revolve primarily around limiting one’s intake of saturated fats. Dieters...

Stillman Diet

Billed as “The Doctor’s Quick Weight Loss Diet”, the Stillman Diet is a low-fat and low-carbohydrate diet that purportedly helps dieters lose up to 28 pounds in 30 days. Dr. Stillman invented his diet in the 1960s after...

Special K Diet

According to the claims on the cereal box, the Special K diet can help dieters lose up to 6 pounds in 2 weeks. The diet involves eating a bowl of Special K cereal with half a cup of low fat milk for lunch and dinner...

Morning Banana Diet

Widely considered by many to be a fad diet, the Morning Banana Diet was introduced on the Japanese social networking site Mixi in 2008, and resulted in a shortage of bananas in grocery stores across Japan. Developed by...

SparkPeople Diet

SparkPeople is a weight loss program which began in 2001 and encourages healthy eating as well as goal-setting and exercise to help dieters shed pounds and improve their health. The focus of the diet is a community...

Atkins Diet

Developed by Dr. Robert Atkins and popularized in a series of books starting in 1972, the Atkins Diet emphasizes a low-carbohydrate lifestyle and was one of the most famous diets of the early 2000’s. Dr. Atkins...

Alkaline Diet

An alkaline diet (also known as an alkaline acid diet or an alkaline ash diet) is a diet concept which is based upon the belief that human beings historically consume a menu primarily consisting of foods which...

South Beach Diet

A popular diet plan developed by cardiologist Arthur Agatston, the South Beach diet was originally developed to prevent heart disease in Dr. Agatston’s patients. While often confused with the Atkins diet and other low...

Sonoma Diet

This is a low-carb diet created by registered dietician Connie Guttersen; it is designed to help dieters lose weight for life. The plan is quite simple with no calorie-counting or deprivation. According to the Sonoma...

100-mile Diet

The premise of the 100-mile Diet is that people should eat only those foods which are available within 100 miles of their homes. It’s based upon a 2007 Canadian book by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon called ‘The...