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The green tea diet has taken the dieting industry by storm. Dr. Perricone and Oprah unwittingly unleashed another fad diet waiting to happen. The internet has seen a high-velocity rise in green tea weight loss products, similar in intensiveness to the acai berry diet sensation. Fad diets should be considered with caution, especially when high-priced products touting quick results are being offered. Fad diets can hurt the consumer not only by their high cost and unfeasible promises, but also by being rough on the body. Rapid weight loss programs and crash diets are in most cases unsustainable (the weight loss will eventually come back) and can put the body into nutritional imbalances that can do the dieter far more hurt than good.

Oprah’s green tea diet is not a weight loss miracle as the green tea weight loss industry would have you believe. Nonetheless, this in no way diminishes the fact that green tea can be a very helpful addition to your weight loss diet program. Dr. Perricone’s advice to replace coffee with green tea is a great piece of wellness wisdom. His assertion, however, that a green tea diet itself can effect amazing weight loss is, unfortunately, a disservice to the millions of dieters who are looking for a magic bullet.