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ABCNews.com Takes a Look at the Best and the Worst New Year's Diet Searches
By DAN CHILDS
Now that the Christmas cookies and New Year's Eve toasts have been replaced with resolutions and regrets, many people are scouring the Internet for ways to lose the extra pounds they packed on during the holiday season.
What these Web searchers are finding is that the online offerings in the diet realm are immense -- and each promises tantalizing results.
Diet experts are quick to point out that it is unlikely that any option offers a "magic bullet" for weight loss, unless it brings about a significant change in lifestyle habits.
"Any diet that significantly reduces a person's calorie intake is likely to cause temporary weight loss," notes Joanne Ikeda, cooperative extension nutrition education specialist and lecturer in the Nutritional Sciences Department at University of California, Berkeley. "However, permanent weight loss remains an elusive goal for most people."
"There are some very silly -- and even dangerous -- ways to lose weight," said Dr. David Katz, co-founder and director of the Yale Prevention Research Center. "The problem with gauging the utility of diets is that the wrong metrics are used; short-term weight loss is not a measure of true success."
Still, many may hold out hope that they can find a diet that will at least kick-start their efforts to a healthier 2009.
ABCNews.com rounded up some of the most popular diets of the New Year, based on recent news and search-engine queries. We then subjected these diets to the scrutiny of nutrition experts Ikeda, Katz, and Keith-Thomas Ayoob, director of the nutrition clinic at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
The following pages feature each of these diets, as well as whether or not you can count on them to help you achieve a healthier weight.
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