well shimmi,

Diet fads are sweeping the world as people want quick solutions to their growing weight. It’s estimated that only 5% of those who lose weight with these types of diets will keep it off...so why are so many people spending so much time and money on these non-solutions?? This page gives a summary of many of the short-term diets on the market, their pitfalls, and some ways to increase your chances of weight loss success.

All diet fads have one major common thread that lead to their low success rate: they focus on the short-term. They give us exactly what we want (“lose weight fast!”). This inherent impatience of ours has us pursing a solution before we’ve even identified the problem. All of the diet fads on the market feed off of this quick-fix mentality.

Answered by Priyanka C , an ibibo Master, at 12:23 AM on December 09, 2008

Well, if you think about it whenever you go into the mall you see new stuff there. One person begins to buy it, then another, then another and so on. Soon everyone thinks that they should be wearing what everyone else is wearing. So actually the people who design the clothes are the ones who decide what's in style.

Answered by Uttam , an ibibo Master, at 2:05 PM on December 08, 2008