In recent years, increased interest in the population to different types of non-traditional diet, which is different from the modern scientific medicine principles of nutrition of healthy and sick person. Continues to be developed and implemented in practice many of the so-called "trendy diets, which are ardent supporters of a greater or lesser extent, deny the scientific basis of nutrition. Popular literature by dramatizing often praises and gives a panacea unrecognized by official medicine original techniques of power.
By non-traditional food are:
• Vegetarianism - food plant food
• vitarianizm (raw food diet) - Food raw (uncooked) foods, chiefly of vegetable origin
• fruktorianizm - a kind of raw food diet, in which exist only in fruits, berries and vegetables
• macrobiotic food - mainly food vegetarian diet, based on the concepts of Eastern philosophy
• Separate food and many other

In some cases, can not completely deny the idea of non-traditional food. Thus, vegetarian food as a short-term courses can be used in a number of diseases (eg gout).
The disadvantage of most fashionable theories of power lies in the fact that they do not take into account the physiological characteristics of the organism, the national power supply system and extrapolate their observations and conclusions on all the people in general. The most sensitive to deviations from a balanced diet are children, adolescents, pregnant women and nursing mothers. Unfortunately, most non-traditional diet is not strictly scientific basis.