The Top 10 Most Searched Diet Trends of 2018, According to Google: Keto, Dr. Gundry and More

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The Top 10 Most Searched Diet Trends of 2018, According to Google: Keto, Dr. Gundry and More

The top 10 diet trends of 2018 — according to Google’s Year of Search 2018 report — are in, and the keto diet is at the top! More people searched for the low-carb, high-protein eating plan that’s beloved by celebrities from Jenna Jameson to Vinny Guadagnino, than any other. But plenty of other star favorite healthy diets and fat burners made the list, including Chris Pratt and Molly Sims' weight loss hack, intermittent fasting, and Dr. Steven Gundry’s diet. Based on his book The Plant Paradox, Kelly Clarkson credited his method for helping her drop 37 pounds in 2018. [ami-related id="" url="https://okmagazine.com/photos/from-ice-cubes-to-clay-the-most-extreme-celebrity-diets-used-by-the-stars/" title=" Extreme Celebrity Diets" target="_blank" showsubt="false"] Read on to discover the most popular eating plans of the year in descending order — and discover the stars who found success following them.

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The Top 10 Most Searched Diet Trends of 2018, According to Google: Keto, Dr. Gundry and More

The top 10 diet trends of 2018 — according to Google’s Year of Search 2018 report — are in, and the keto diet is at the top! More people searched for the low-carb, high-protein eating plan that’s beloved by celebrities from Jenna Jameson to Vinny Guadagnino, than any other. But plenty of other star favorite healthy diets and fat burners made the list, including Chris Pratt and Molly Sims' weight loss hack, intermittent fasting, and Dr. Steven Gundry’s diet. Based on his book The Plant Paradox, Kelly Clarkson credited his method for helping her drop 37 pounds in 2018. [ami-related id="" url="https://okmagazine.com/photos/from-ice-cubes-to-clay-the-most-extreme-celebrity-diets-used-by-the-stars/" title=" Extreme Celebrity Diets" target="_blank" showsubt="false"] Read on to discover the most popular eating plans of the year in descending order — and discover the stars who found success following them.

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Keto Diet

Tons of celebs from Vanessa Hudgens to Halle Berry to Vinny Guadagnino swear by the ketogenic diet. But the real poster child of the high-protein, low-carb keto eating plan in 2018 was former adult film actress Jenna Jameson — who lost more than 80 pounds on the diet and catalogs her progress with dramatic before and after photos on her Instagram account.

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Dubrow Diet

The Dubrow Diet is the brainchild of husband-and-wife team Heather Dubrow and Dr. Terry Dubrow, who wrote The Dubrow Diet: Interval Eating to Lose Weight and Feel Ageless. The diet is “based on the concept of intermittent fasting [but] it’s a very usable version,” former Botched star Terry told Us in October. “Using this diet, you learn how to eat properly, but you learn when to eat, not just what to eat… It’s not really a calorie-counting diet. It’s more of a coordinated eating interval diet.” As the Real Housewives of Orange County alum added, “When you eat this way, you actually have so much more energy.”

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Noom Diet

It’s touted as “Weight Watchers for millennials” — which mostly comes from the fact that it’s a phone-based app. After completing a brief survey based on your current habits, Noom calculates how long it’ll take you to reach the goal weight you choose. Then a team of experts helps you develop a 16-week plan. Support from other members and educational facts and quizzes are built into the app.

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Carnivore Diet

While celebrities from Gigi Hadid to Kristin Cavallari have talked about their love of eating meat (“I always say, eat clean to stay fit, have a burger to stay sane,” Hadid famously said in 2016), the carnivore diet is a whole other, well, beast. Its origins come from pro-meat plans such as Atkins and Paleo, but this goes to an extreme: On the diet, you eat literally only meat and salt. Interest in the diet peaked this summer after blogger Mikhaila Peterson, daughter of pop psychologist Jordan Peterson, claimed following this diet helped her lose weight and cured her rheumatoid arthritis; her father said it curbed his appetite and eliminated his depression. Others such as Instagram doctor Shawn Baker, author of The Carnivore Diet, have helped popularize the diet. 

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Mediterranean Diet

There’s a reason it’s been popular for years — the diet, based around consuming healthy foods popular in the Mediterranean region, such as omega-3–rich fish, olive oil, leafy greens and wine, works as both a weight loss aid and a health aid. As Queer Eye’s resident foodie, Antoni Porowski, told Us this year, he turns to the eating method when the weather warms up. “In the summer, I do eat a lot lighter, anything that's really Mediterranean, I live for. If I have a grilling basket, and if I put in a whole red snapper, and just stuff it with a bunch of soft herbs and slices of lemon,” he said. “Something about eating fresh, and I always love to see all the ingredients that I'm eating, I'm not crazy about processed stuff too much except for special occasions. But yeah, grilled fish is the answer.”

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Optavia Diet

This packaged meal plan — which also comes with access to a health coach and a community of other users — focuses on fueling the body. As you eat your pre-approved, packaged foods, your coach helps you learn one new healthy lifestyle habit at a time. Cake Boss star Buddy Valastro credits the diet for his 35-pound weight loss this year.

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Dr. Gundry Diet

When Kelly Clarkson revealed this summer that she’d lost 37 pounds and credited Dr. Steven Gundry’s book, The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in “Healthy” Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain, interest in the lectin-eliminating diet soared. Lectin is a protein found in certain plants that’s difficult for the body to break down; Gundry found in his research that eliminating it could help people with autoimmune issues — which is how Clarkson found the method. As Gundry told Us in June, “Interestingly enough, one of the side effects of this program is you lose weight.”

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Fasting Diet

Intermittent fasting became extremely popular with celebrities, with everyone from Molly Sims to Chris Pratt to Moby telling Us they swear by the eating method. In the most popular version, you consume all of your calories in an eight-hour window and fast the other 16 hours of the day. In the 5:2 method, you eat an extremely restricted number of calories five days a week then eat normally the other two days. As Brooke Burke told Us in May, “I never count calories. I have too much to do to count calories, which is kind of freeing. But I do really believe in intermittent fasting.” 

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Fodmap Diet

Fodmap stands for fermentable oligo-, di-, mono-saccharides and polyols. Basically, a low fodmap diet is designed for people with irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS — Tyra Banks has talked about her issues with the condition — as a way to eliminate the type of carbohydrates that typically trigger digestive problems, including stomach pain and bloating.

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The Shepherd’s Diet

The title of the book — The Shepherd’s Diet: A Biblically Inspired 7 Step System to Lose Weight, Look Great, and Feel Younger — sums up the origin of the eating plan. The spiritual-based diet recommends eating the types of foods it believes Jesus would have had access to, including healthy fats, vegetables, ethically-grown meats and dairy, herbs, low-carb plant protein and unprocessed whole grains — as well as avoiding the sins, including gluttony and sloth, that the author, personal trainer Kristina Wilds, suggests are partially to blame for the pile-on of extra pounds.