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The document compares the Hacker's Diet to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The Hacker's Diet claims weight loss is achieved through stress and poor nutrition. It risks depression and death. In contrast, the Dietary Guidelines promote healthy, sustainable weight loss without harm. The student does not recommend the Hacker's Diet due to its life-threatening nature and validates their sources by citing .gov websites.

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5.4.2 Fad Diets vs. Dietary Guidelines for Americans (20 points)

Directions: Compare and contrast these popular “fad” diets with the guidelines set by the
Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015-2020 edition.

Types of Diets – Select one of the diets listed for this assignment:
Low-calorie diets Low-carbohydrate diets Crash diets
 Body for Life  Atkins Diet  Beverly Hills Diet
 The Hacker’s Diet  Dukan Diet  Cabbage soup Diet
 Nutrisystems Diet  ITG Diet  Grapefruit Diet
 Weight Watchers Diet  South Beach Diet  Subway Diet

1. Name of the diet you selected:

 Answer = The Hacker’s Diet
2. Describe the basic principles of the diet.
 Answer = Hacker's diet is to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition.The
Hacker’s Diet says that the way to lose weight is to eat fewer calories than you’re burning each
day.A pound of fat contains about 3500 calories. Losing a pound of fat requires you to burn 3500
more calories than you eat.
3. Identify and explain any intended positive consequences.
 Answer = Hacker's diet is to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition no
positive consequences this is just end your life if you follow this in this diet you have to take
stress and no nutritious food and your weight and hair will lose wow what type of diet is this.

4. Analyze the potential health risks.

 Answer = yes there is whole death risk in this if you follow this you will have to take
stress and then eventually you will get depressed and depression eventually lead to death.
you will die if you follow this.
5. Identify how this diet contrasts with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015-2020.
 Answer = They both are very different in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015-
2020 the ways are healthy and if we follow them they will not harm us but in the

Grade 10 – Comprehensive Health Education

2018 MCPS
Hacker's diet the ways will harm us in negative ways and are not healthy way s to achieve
our goal to lose weight.
6. Would you recommend this diet? Justify your response.
 Answer = No I don't want to kill someone with this diet plan.
7. Identify 2 or more sources of valid online information that you used for this assignment.
 1. https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/online/hdo.html
 2.https://www.shortform.com/blog/the-hackers-diet/#:~:text=The%20Hacker's%20Diet
%20says%20that,more%20calories%20than%20you%20eat.
 3 . https://health.gov/sites/default/files/2019-09/2015-2020_Dietary_Guidelines.pdf
8. Explain why you consider these valid sources of information.
 Answer : These were the only resources that I came to found about The Hacker's diet and
one is Wikipedia that is not really the best because anyo ne can add information in it.The 3
one is reliable because of "gov" at the end that says that this is a valid and reliable source.