Evaluation of Weight Reduction Diets Published in Four High Circulated Newspapers in Turkey

Abstract

The survey had been done to evaluate the validity of weight reduction diets published in four high circulated newspapers- Between 1982 - 1983, in the duration of 17 months 62 weight - reduction diets had been examined. It was noticed that most of the published diets ,were impracticable, unreasonable and some o f them even wrong and were recommended by an unqualified person. It would be useful to point out that these kind of diets should be controlled by an authority on nutrition and dietetics.