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The 10 hottest diet trends of 2018 – ways to lose weight quickly and stars that follow them

  • Intermittent fasting and high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet plans among the most popular
  • Some oddball diets may have topped online searches because they are new, not because they are better than other plans

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The Mediterranean diet is high in vegetables, such as tomatoes, but other popular diets minimise or cut out vegetables. Photo: Courtesy Bonnie Plants/MCT

Even though research shows that adopting a healthy eating plan you can stick to for life is a better tactic than yo-yo dieting, people are always intrigued by the latest strategy for losing weight in a hurry.

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Google has published a list of the trendiest, most searched diets of 2018.

According to our Google searches, there seem to be two key strategies. Dieters seem to be curious about various kinds of high-fat, low-carbohydrate plans such as the keto diet, as well as schemes that ask people to restrict their eating to certain hours of the day or certain days of the week.

Given that more than nine out of 10 internet searches in the world are performed on Google or its subsidiary YouTube, the search engine’s list of trends is probably a decent gauge of what diets people were trying this year. But it’s worth remembering that Google’s annual trends are based on which search terms had the biggest spike in 2018 as compared to 2017. That means some oddball diets may have landed on this top 10 list because they’re new.

Perennial classic diets like Atkins and Weight Watchers didn’t make this list, but here are the 10 eating plans that did.

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Halle Berry follows the keto diet. Photo: Instagram
Halle Berry follows the keto diet. Photo: Instagram



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