Near Antonyms. Synonym Discussion of sparse. meager, scanty, scant, skimpy, spare, sparse mean falling short of what is normal, necessary, or desirable. meager implies the absence of elements, qualities, or numbers necessary to a thing's richness, substance, or potency a meager portion of meat.
A fad diet is a diet that promises quick weight loss through what is usually an unhealthy and unbalanced diet. Fad diets are targeted at people who want to lose weight quickly without exercise. Some fad diets claim that they make you lose fat, but itâs really water weight youâre losing.
Fad diets take many forms. Over the years, they have promoted consumption of specific foods (e.g., the Cabbage Soup diet, the Drinking Manâs diet, the Grapefruit diet), specific combinations of foods (e.g., the Zone) and specific times that foods must be eaten (e.g., the Rotation diet).