fad diet
/fæd ˈdaɪət/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A restrictive diet whose main goal is short-term weight loss.
Example Sentences
- "The diet revives old food friends unjustly scorned by fad diets: breads, cereals […]"
- "Last week, another in a seemingly endless stream of fad diets hit the best-seller list. If as many Americans as bought these miraclepromising books actually lost a significant amount of weight and kept it off, the market for future fads would soon disappear."
- "Usually a fad diet will take one idea that research has shown to be somewhat beneficial and take it to the extreme. A good example of this is the statement “Eat seaweed at every meal.”"