{"id":982,"date":"2026-06-23T15:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lighteningweightloss.com\/weightloss\/?p=982"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:27:21","slug":"how-to-spot-a-fad-diet-mia-nacamulli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighteningweightloss.com\/weightloss\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"How to spot a fad diet &#8211; Mia Nacamulli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8V15Z-yyiVg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>View full lesson: http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/do-fad-diets-work-mia-nacamulli<\/p>\n<p>Conventional wisdom about diets, including government health recommendations, seems to change all the time. And yet ads routinely come out claiming to have THE answer about what we should eat. 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