Pioppi diet

There are so many new diets that come and go that I felt it was better to deal with all in one post. The Pioppi diet has apparently been popular since 2017, and is supposed to be based on the traditional diet of the people of Pioppi, a small town in southern Italy where people are thought to live to a riper old age than most of us. It is the home of the Mediterranean diet which is familiar to us all.  Unlike the Mediterranean, the Pioppi diet removes all sugars and refined carbohydrates and adds coconut fat (which would be an unusual ingredient in Pioppi).  It is probably bad for the heart.

 More recent diets are the mono diet and the Noom diet. The mono diet follows the principle that you eat only one kind of food each day, either food from one food category or simply one food item.  So it is all protein one day and then nothing but apples the next.  People do seem to lose weight, possibly because, as a day of all apples progresses, they lose interest in food entirely and thus eat less that day than they normally would.

 The Noom diet is an approach to managing weight loss with the help of an app  (the Noom app) where you record everything that you eat. The app gives you the green light for good foods and a red light for bad foods. The business of recording everything means that you can’t hide from yourself the amount of food that you actually eat. And the app behaves rather like a nagging dietician in cautioning you against red-light foods. It does seem to help.