Hollywood Diets

Even if you don't read the gossip magazines and watch E! television, you know that Hollywood celebrities are constantly taking on strange and sometimes sadistic-sounding diets. Occasionally a diet that seems based on sound nutrition pops up, but generally the latest Hollywood diet craze seems like an impossible way to eat.

5 Factor Diet

The 5 Factor Diet was developed by a Hollywood trainer, and does not involve eliminating food groups or eating only one food for entire meals or days. The basic five factors are: five meals per day; five criteria to follow for every meal; five ingredients for each meal, each of which is supposed to take five minutes to prepare; five days each week for five weeks and a workout for 25 minutes; and one day per week is a cheat day.

Baby Food Diet

A number of A-list celebrities have embarked on the baby food diet, which involves eating 14 jars of baby food each day, with the option of a healthy adult-sized dinner. A variation is to eat three healthy meals per day and replace snacks with baby food. You get to choose the types of baby food you eat.

No White Foods Diet

Eliminating white foods means no foods made with white flour, no salt, sugar, white potatoes, and every other white food. The theory is that white foods contain simple carbohydrates, which create a vicious cycle by raising insulin levels, creating further cravings for these carbohydrates.

Dukan Diet

The Dukan Diet was developed by a French nutritionist, and is a high-protein low-carbohydrate diet similar to the Atkins Diet. There are four phases to the Dukan Diet: attack, cruise, consolidation and stabilization. You begin by consuming only lean protein, water and 1.5 tbsp. of oat bran. Gradually you move to the cruise phase, adding approved vegetables to your diet every other day. Consolidation incorporates a small serving of fruit, cheese and whole grain bread into your daily diet, and allows for two cheat meals per week. Stabilization is the maintenance part of the Dukan Diet and requires that you commit one day each week to following the initial attack phase all-protein diet.