" (MedlinePlus, Medical Encyclopedia, Website, 2003) The heart is clearly effected by the way in which we eat, although sometimes not as major focus when the goal of losing weigh is at its highest emotional stage. Obesity is regarded as one of the most physically, emotionally and socially detrimental factors of the human condition and those who seek to lose it are often focused on the short-term, hoping that just the loss of weight will be the most important factor of their desire to seek greater health and it would seem more importantly greater social regard. Sadly the fad diet industry has had no real flagging in its ability to part consumers with their money, sometimes their fat but also their health. Heart disease is regarded as one of the number one reasons why people, for health purposes attempt to diet and lose weight and yet the long and short-term effects on the heart, with regard to fad dieting are largely an unexplored area of science, in part because of the standard western medical response to fad diets as blanket unhealthy and yet they are being...

Much more must be done to understand the results of such diets on cardiovascular health, and not by those who are attempting to convince the public of the value of the particular fad of the day in dieting.
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