Diet and Nutrition - Fad Diets
The best place to start looking at diets is the Dietitians Association of Australia. Diet Fads and Celebrities explains why this organisation is so important. Try resources such as this press release,
The NSW Institute of Sport has a fact sheet called Fad diets - is it all too good to be true? xdv
This article from the Separate fact, fat and fad Nursing Review has a good definition of Fad Diets.
Diet Culture is an abusive relationship is tangential to your project but has very important points to make about the emotional dangers of fad dieting.
The celebrity quick-fix: when good food meets bad science describes a "disconcerting trend because it reflects a market for quick-fix solutions, often based on questionable science, which is then perpetuated as the publication of “success stories” functions to disguise anecdotes as data".
Dynamics of positive deviance in destigmatisation: celebrities and the media in the rise of veganism looks at how celebrities can remove the stigma (bad impression) of a particular practice (veganism) and give it a positive image.
Attitudes and beliefs of Australian adults on reality television cooking programmes and celebrity chefs. Is there cause for concern? Descriptive analysis presented from a consumer survey suggests that celebrity chefs have little influence on their viewers' diet.
Media and peer influence on fad diets tried by adolescent females shows that reading magazines aimed at women and chatting with friends about body image and diet makes one more likely to try a fad diet. You'll want to look at the research process of this thesis as it is close to what you'll be researching in your IRP/PIP. This research is from last century - has anything changed?
Exposure to fad dieting among youth and young adults in Canada argues that we need to educate young people to 'unpack' persuasive marketing of unscientific fad diets because there is a link between exposure to the diets and fad dieting.
Scales for measuring body image:
Sociocultural attitudes towards Appearance Questionaire-3.
Sociocultural attitudes towards Appearance Questionaire-4.
If you are using content analysis as part of a PIP on this topic, have a look at A content analysis of Gluten-free diet coverage in major US newspapers and The Women’s Magazine Diet: Frames and Sources in Nutrition and Fitness Articles.
The mediated bio-politics of Eating is an overview of all the ways the media has created a food culture that springs from our interaction with food shows and other forms of media advice about food.
Persuading the Public to Lose Weight: An Analysis of a Decade (2001-2011) of Magazine Advertisements "shows the similarities and differences in how people of different genders, races/ethnicities, and sexual orientations are persuaded to lose weight and the ways advertisers continue to reinforce hegemonic ideals of beauty and body through weight-loss advertising".
Food Trends and Popular Nutrition online sdfsd
Femininities-Lite: Diet Culture, Feminism and Body Policing. agues that "women are encouraged to comply with the otherwise oppressive dietary practices under the guise of feminist empowerment."
Encyclopedia of Diet Fads: Understanding Science and Society, which has a hisdtory of dieting in the introduction.
Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong about Everything?: How the Famous Sell Us Elixirs takes us through the problems of a series of celebrity diets
Are you fat? The obesity issue for teens.