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Popular Fad Diets and How They Can Jeopardize Your Health

Popular fad diet are diets such the Atkins diet, grapefruit diet and the infamous cabbage soup diet. I say no to these quick fix diets because they are not only useless, but they are dangerous as well. Many of these diets lack the nutrition that supplement our bodies each and everyday.

The Drawbacks Of Using Such Diets Taking this approach leads to 1 of 3 or all of these issues; starving yourself, getting to much of one particular food group, or gaining the weight back and then some. Below I will explain further in detail about both issues.

1. Starving yourself: These diets can send your body into starvation mode. At this point you are not getting the proper nutrients that your body needs, your calorie deficit is to low, your metabolism has slowed down significantly, and it is possible that your body will eat away at your muscles to feed itself

2.Eating to much of one particular food group: We all know that to much of anything isn’t good for you. Lets take the Atkins-diet for example; The Atkins-diet is a high protein diet and I don’t have anything against high protein diets, but to much protein can definitely wreck havoc on your kidney’s. I speak from experience. Because have also tried these popular fad diets as well.

3.Gaining the weight back: It is almost a guarantee that you will gain the weight back and then some. Why? Because realistically these fad diets are only temporary fixes. Yes, you can lose weight, but at a very high cost. You can not implement these types of diets into a comfortable lifestyle for the long haul. So in other words you have no realistic game plan after the diet to maintain the weight you have just lost. At this point you don’t know how to control your eating without starving yourself, we both know that you are not going to do that, so you will start to eat again. You will gain more weight than before, because you have slowed your metabolism down by starving yourself.

Remember: You don’t have to starve yourself to lose weight, cutting back slowly and including all major food groups even carbs in moderation is the key.

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