There is no dearth of fad diets that guarantee you quick weight loss and that too, without any side effects. Wasting your time and money as well as putting your own health in danger for such not-so-reliable weight loss programs is certainly not worth it. However, I am not trying to negate existence of their advantages. There are a few things that can be done in order to get out of this confusion. For instance, you can consult your dietitian and go through some reliable reviews of such weight loss diets. One of such recently popularized quick weight loss diets that we are going to discuss here, is the Danish diet. As the name suggests, the Danish diet was supposedly invented in Denmark, and it emphasizes on losing a lot of weight in less than the time span of two weeks. This is the prime reason why people are skeptical about the benefits and source of reliability in the claims made by the creators of the Danish diet. What we can do here is study some reviews on a neutral level, which will give us a perfect idea about the advantages, disadvantages and precautions that are needed to be taken for those who want to follow it. What is Danish Diet All About Well, before moving ahead with the reviews, let's get to know more about the basics of the Danish diet. The basic philosophy of the Danish diet is to drastically reduce calorie intake from the diet for about 2 weeks (13 days) and then following the regular diet with smaller portions of healthy foods. If you follow a well planned Danish diet menu for 13 days, the creators guarantee that the dieter will lose at least 26 lbs. To be precise, the dieter has to skip one meal every day and has to have pretty restricted nutritional intake for the rest of the meals. For instance, a cup of coffee with a sugar cube for breakfast, 200ml of fruit juice and 1 cup plain yogurt for lunch and 250g fruit with 1 carrot and 1 hard-boiled egg for dinner! Skipping breakfast is the highlighted point of the Danish diet, which raises questions about ideality of this diet. The creators have specified foods which can be and should not be included in the diet, while preparing the meal plan. This diet does not believe in the theory of having small meals for 5 to 6 times a day. It believes in 'eat to live', instead. Foods that can be included in Danish diet are, fruit juices, plain yogurt, green and leafy vegetables, beef, ham, salads, fish, coffee, tea, water. The list containing all these foods might sound cheerful, but principles of including these foods in combination for a day's diet sounds pretty restrictive for a layman. It is also the reason why many people are not sure whether they can survive with the restrictive Danish diet meal plan. As with any newly invented diet program, there are both positive and negative viewpoints of the dieters who have tried this diet plan. Danish Diet Reviews As I said earlier, there are people who praise the Danish diet while there are also a few people who curse it. Comparing their views on a neutral ground is what the best thing that we can do. Well, frankly speaking, there are a few advantages of the Danish diet. First of them all is its easy availability. You need no subscriptions, registrations and the foods that are included in the Danish diet meal plan are easily available at home or your local supermarkets. Secondly, the proper Danish diet menu is clearly explained on many websites and hence, you might have no difficulty in following their instructions. Thirdly, this is an extremely specific plan which involves breakfast, lunch and dinner; with no added snacks and/or diet pills and dietary supplements. It avoids that calorie counting routine, which is found boring by many dieters. Despite these advantages, not many people are able to find any reliable source; like an official website for Danish diet which can take responsibility or solve queries of the dieters. This is the biggest disadvantage of this diet that forces common dieters to distrust this diet. Apart from that, there are many other things that might discourage you from following the Danish diet. This is a pretty restrictive and in fact an extreme diet which doesn't include breakfast which is the most important meal of the day. As a result, many people find it hard to stick with it. Secondly, the Danish diet is not designed for vegetarians and if you trust the sources that explain the basics of Danish diet, you cannot replace the foods that are mentioned in this diet with vegetarian or equally nutritious foods. The per day calorie intake and supplementary exercise routines are not explained with the diet and hence, the dieters fail to believe that this diet will make them maintain the weight that they have lost with help of this diet. As per a term of conduct of Danish diet, if the dieters fail to carry on this diet for 13 continuous day, then they should wait for a few days (3-6 months) before taking up this diet plan once again. Taking all these things in mind, following such restrictive diet becomes an extremely personal decision for the dieters. There are many people who claim that they lost significant amount of weight within the time span of 13 days. But, if you do want to trust the Danish diet reviews, taking up any fad diets without proper consultation with your health care providers and dietitian might be a harmful decision! (Disclaimer: The information provided in the above article is for the informational purposes only. It is not intended and should nowhere be implied as a substitute for professional medical advice.)