Dangers Of Crash Dieting
October 1, 2007
You need lose weight quickly to fit into a skimpy skirt for a date or to look stunning in an evening gown for a dance. What do you do? Easy, go on a crash diet. This is a sure thing which most people believe. But they are WRONG.
Crash dieting can end up making you heavier and it takes a toll on your overall health. Some may shed a little weight but the results won’t last long. Such diets can be detrimental to your health and well-being. It is proven that people gain more weight after crash dieting.
When you crash diet, you leave the body hungry, depriving it from the essential nutrients needed for sustenance and overall functioning of the organs. You end up feeling weak, tired and exhausted. This bad diet depletes the body of stored nutrients and you land up with hair loss, dry and dull skin, chipped nails and stones in the gall bladder. As you continue down this crash dieting road, it depletes your calcium level and you slowly move towards osteoporosis.
“Maple Syrup Diet” became popular after singer Beyonce Knowles said that it helped her lose weight for her movie role. The ingredients of maple syrup are simply a mixture of syrup, lemon juice, cayenne pepper and water. This was taken to replace a dinner meal. No doubt it causes a calorie deficit, but does not deliver enough nutrients to the body nor does it allow the body to function naturally.
Problems of gall stones are extremely common among crash dieters. They are nothing but crystallized cholesterol. It is caused because of fasting as there is little stimulation of bile flow.Some people are only interested in losing the weight and don’t really consider the consequences of their actions. The end is only to be a particular size as the fashion magazines demand it. After few years when these crash dieters face long medical bills then they don’t understand how all this happened.
So it is not too late to realize that this drastic method of losing weight is a dangerous route just like riding a bike without a helmet. A slight swerve and you come crashing down, head first.
Eating right and exercising will take you down the safe road to weight loss and maintenance of that weight.
©Nayna Chakrabarty, 2007. All Rights Reserved.
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