The Snake Diet
This diet is based on prolonged fasting periods (the initial two fasting periods are 48 hours and 72 hours) with low carbohydrate, high fat meals consumed in between the fasting periods—slithered around social media in 2019, with followers claiming dramatic weight loss results. However, experts hope the diet will shed in popularity in the upcoming year.
“The safety and long-term effects are not known as is the case with most fad diets, which are, after all, a fad—short-lived and without scientific basis,” says Ania Jastreboff, MD, Ph.D., Yale Medicine endocrinologist and director of the Weight Management & Obesity Prevention.