Crash Diets : Unhealthy Effects Of Dieting

In your quest to reduce weight quickly, you should never follow crash diets, as it will lead you nowhere, instead you are likely to gain more weight when you stop dieting.

According to a recent study crash diets makes the bones weaker, which in turn causes the risk of fractures and osteoporosis.

Dieting also slows down the metabolism in your body.

Crash Diets May Actually Prevent You From Losing Weight

You resort to dieting in order to lose weight but do you lose weight?

• The Weight You Lose Is Mostly Water
  

Crash diets leads to dramatic decrease in body weight in a short period of time, but this loss in weight is much due to loss of water than fat, because water is associated with carbohydrates stored in the body as glycogen (Glycogen is the storage form of glucose in animals and humans which is analogous to the starch in plants).So When you return to a balanced diet the weight loss due to water is regained.

• You Usually Gain The Weight You Lose ........Sometimes More

When you return to a normal calorie intake, you are likely to gain more weight than before, because as you restrict your eating, the body starts eating your muscle tissue for energy, and it holds on to your fat reserves.

Fatty tissue has a lower metabolic rate , meaning that you will burn less calories, and so you regain more weight than before.

Dieting Can Be Dangerous, Even Deadly

Do you think crash diets really work? i don"t think so. Rather it can be deadly.

What happens when you eat less?
You can easily damage some of your vital organs in the body like your heart, liver and kidneys. You could even die .

When you do crash diets you think it will burn fat, but the body thinks you are starving and it holds on to your fat reserves.

The brain gets all its energy from sugar and if you are not eating enough carbohydrates (sugar and starches), then your body goes into starvation mode. It starts eating the muscle tissue for survival. About two thirds of that energy it drives from body fat, and one third from protein-rich minerals.

A study shows that many crash dieters have been eating their heart muscles for protein in nourishment to keep the brain alive.

Crash Diets Causes Fainting.....

As you know, minerals are essential for proper muscle function apart from other functions.

When you do dieting, you tend to lose vitamins and minerals such as potassium and sodium, and thus the vital organs in the body fail to perform their respective functions properly.

It can get even worse if you are taking diuretics(drugs that make your body lose water).

Low calorie diets along with diuretics can cause your kidneys to dump larger quantities of sodium and potassium into the urine, causing you to lose more water (because minerals pull water along with them).

Losing large quantities of water makes your blood pressure to drop, which causes you to faint.

Dieting Leads To Bone Reduction

Calcium is need for maintaining proper nerve function and immune defenses. If there is not enough calcium in the foods you eat, then this mineral is lost from your bones. As a result the bones become weak which leads to the risk of reduction in bone density, causing fractures and osteoporosis.

We all need nutrients for proper function of our body but losing weight quickly through crash diets leads us nowhere except dissatisfaction and numerous side effects. So the sensible way to lose weight is to focus on healthy eating habits along with some exercises.