Insightful video about fad diets and why they never work.

Oh those dreaded fad diets! Why in the world do we try them? We think that they will somehow magically work and that they are real and we spend thousands upon millions of dollars trying them out only to find they really do not work at all. Then we have that fear of failure...

Fad dieting is just that, a fad. It may work short term, but you will quickly run into problems. It cannot last. Long term weight loss principles are what you need to get rid of those extra pounds and keep them off.

People think fad diets are the answer to their weight problems but they actually are a problem in them self. This article gives you reasons not to go on a fad diet and ideas on what will work instead.

Cherie Thomas said she has tried all types of diets, but this one is a little different. For $60, you get a staple in each ear and that is supposed to curb your appetite. Thomas said it worked for her mom, so now she's trying it out herself.

The Atkins Nutritional Approach, popularly known as the Atkins Diet or just Atkins, is the most marketed and well-known low-carbohydrate diet. It was adapted by Dr. Robert Atkins in the 1960s from a diet he read in the Journal of the American Medical Association and utilized to resolve his own overweight condition following medical school and graduate medical training. After successfully treating over ten thousand patients, he popularized the Atkins diet in a series of books, starting with Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution in 1972. In his revised book, Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, Atkins updated some of his ideas, but remained faithful to the original concepts.The Atkins franchise, a business formed to provide products to those individuals on the diet, has been highly successful due to the popularity of the diet, and is considered the iconic and driving entity of the larger "low-carb craze". However, various factors have led to its dwindling success and the company founded by Dr. Atkins in 1989, Atkins Nutritionals of Ronkonkoma, New York, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in July of 2005, two years after the death of Dr. Atkins. The company re-emerged in January 2006, and the Atkins logo is still highly visible through licensed-proprietary branding for food products and related merchandise.