These are the only two diets that OCU recommends for weight loss.

Summer is approaching and many people decide to go on a diet to lose weight, but… Not all of them are effective or healthy.

The OCU has compiled a list of more than 20 diets, including those that come into fashion every year at this time, such as the alkaline or cleansing diet. Or those that have become a trend, such as intermittent fasting and the keto or low-carb diet. According to data analyzed by OCU experts, The above diets should be treated with extreme caution as they do not have a positive effect on health.

Among those analyzed, the anti-inflammatory diet and the low-calorie diet received the best ratings.

Anti-inflammatory diet

This is not just about a diet for weight loss. replace foods rich in saturated fats and sugars for fresh plant products and whole grain products. This forces you to consume fewer calories and lose weight.

This diet helps establish good long-term eating habits and may improve some diseases associated with chronic inflammation, such as cardiovascular disease or type 2 diabetes.

Hypocaloric diet

The main purpose of this is radically change eating habits through a varied diet based on plant-based products. Although it is not the fastest diet to achieve results, it is the safest and most of all, effective in the long term.

This type of diet should be accompanied by an increase in physical activity.

The OCU notes that, despite these recommendations, if you want to follow a weight loss plan, the most effective is take the help of a professional for example, a nutritionist or nutritionist who can help with and monitor this process.

With the number of diets going viral on social media on the rise, he offers three tips on how to spot a diet that could be compromising your health. In particular, they note that should not be trusted any diet that has any of these processes:

• Ban some major food groups or make a list of good and bad foods.
• Encourage fasting or be excessively hypocaloric (less than 1000 or 1200 kcal per day). Very low-calorie diets promote a yo-yo effect and there is a risk of significant nutritional deficiencies.
• They promise to lose weight too quickly. It is not recommended to lose more than half a kilo per week.