Fatfield Diet
Encyclopedia
The Fatfield Diet is a calorie-controlled diet
designed to induce healthy weight loss, created in the 1990s by British
author and The Sun
journalist
Sally Ann Voak. The diet was originally devised for a serial feature on the BBC
daytime television programme "Bazaar", in which an entire village
(Fatfield
in north-east England
) was challenged to lose weight. The series proved very popular on British television, and consequently was turned into a bestselling paperback
book and a follow up recipe book. Though out of print, these books are still widely available second-hand on the Internet
.
The diet works by restricting calorie intake but encourages consumption of large amounts of food which have low calorific value and/or are high in fibre. The variety within the diet and the large bulk of the food consumed means that the dieter feels well and full yet still loses weight.
The diet is unquestionably healthy and effective, and is sufficiently flexible enough to agree with different tastes. Its principal disadvantage is the time and effort required to assemble and prepare all the ingredients. This may not suit very busy people with severe restrictions on their time.
Despite the interest generated within the United Kingdom
, because there was no new or revolutionary aspect to the diet, the diet did not attract interest elsewhere and remains little-known outside of that country.
Diet (nutrition)
In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. Dietary habits are the habitual decisions an individual or culture makes when choosing what foods to eat. With the word diet, it is often implied the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management...
designed to induce healthy weight loss, created in the 1990s by British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
author and The Sun
The Sun (newspaper)
The Sun is a daily national tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and owned by News Corporation. Sister editions are published in Glasgow and Dublin...
journalist
Journalist
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Sally Ann Voak. The diet was originally devised for a serial feature on the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
daytime television programme "Bazaar", in which an entire village
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...
(Fatfield
Fatfield
Fatfield is a village in Tyne and Wear, located in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough, England. It formed part of the Washington new town....
in north-east England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
) was challenged to lose weight. The series proved very popular on British television, and consequently was turned into a bestselling paperback
Paperback
Paperback, softback or softcover describe and refer to a book by the nature of its binding. The covers of such books are usually made of paper or paperboard, and are usually held together with glue rather than stitches or staples...
book and a follow up recipe book. Though out of print, these books are still widely available second-hand on the Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
.
The diet works by restricting calorie intake but encourages consumption of large amounts of food which have low calorific value and/or are high in fibre. The variety within the diet and the large bulk of the food consumed means that the dieter feels well and full yet still loses weight.
The diet is unquestionably healthy and effective, and is sufficiently flexible enough to agree with different tastes. Its principal disadvantage is the time and effort required to assemble and prepare all the ingredients. This may not suit very busy people with severe restrictions on their time.
Despite the interest generated within the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, because there was no new or revolutionary aspect to the diet, the diet did not attract interest elsewhere and remains little-known outside of that country.