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In part 3 of this Exclusive Interview, Catherine Champagne talks with Diabetes in Control Publisher Steve Freed about her findings regarding fad diets.
Catherine M. Champagne, PhD, RDN, LDN, FADA, FAND, FTOS is a professor at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University.
Transcript of this video segment:
Freed: When you say a fad diet it doesn’t necessarily mean anything bad, right?
Champagne: No, it’s just sort of fashionable at the time.
Freed: So which fad diets are you a proponent of?
Champagne: I’m not a proponent of any fad diet because my research into fad diets has pretty much made me summarize the fact or conclude that by and large fad diets end up being low calorie diets. One example is the HCG diet, a diet that uses some substance to help you lose weight, but then you know along with that the calories are moderated to very very severely reduce calories. The real take home message from that is it’s just a low calorie diet. Lots of the diets are low calorie. The ketogenic diet. Atkins type diet. Those are obviously not low fat diets but I think that there’s a satiating effect such that perhaps the overall caloric intake is not significantly high.