Diet
***Disclaimer: This blog is not meant to be used as legal or medical advice. It is written as my person perspective on how medical professionals could blend western medicine with other modalities*** Greetings, and welcome to another episode of the Integrated Pharmacist Podcast. Fad diets come and go. So often, they're built on extreme limitations with the goal of dropping weight quickly or offering longer, more vibrant life. These fad diets came into being during the 19th century when people drifted culturally away from ethnic and locally grown foods to diets based more on comfort and pleasure. This new style of eating obviously had a negative effect on health and wellness, so new diet trends continue to spring up. Extreme diets have included low-fat, low-carb, high fiber, and high protein. There have been diets based on specific foods or food-groups like cabbage and grapefruit, restrictive diets, liquid diets, and much more. Of course, fad ...