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Ill Hazards of Crash Dieting....Are You on One?
 The swim
suit season
pushes scores of otherwise health-conscious women to deprivation diets or
intense exercise regimens, often in blazing hot weather, to look slimmer in
revealing clothes. Early June and January are the two times of year ladies and
girls do crazy, desperate things to get thin fast. They opt for crash diets
without realizing the health hazards. Juice diet,7-day colour diet, Cookie diet,
Ice cube diet, Purple food diet, Sitcom diet, Wine diet are some of the bizarre
diets.
A �crash diet� is a diet that aims to produce very rapid weight loss in an
extremely short period of time, often in around 3-7 days. Crash diet almost
always operate on extreme calorie restriction.
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Can become a cause for Gallstone: People who go on an extremely low
calorie diet are more likely
to develop gallstones than people on a moderately low calorie diet,
according to a new study. Dr. Michael Jensen, a professor of medicine at the
Mayo Clinic, said dieters typically end up with similar weight
loss in the long run whether
they use extreme calorie restriction or more moderately restricted diets.
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Harm your heart: Research
suggests rapid weight loss (10lbs/week) can slow your metabolism,
leading to future weight gain, and deprive your body of essential nutrients.
What's more, crash diets can weaken your immune system and increase your
risk of dehydration, heart palpitations, and cardiac stress. Repeated yo-yo
dieting can damage your blood vessels. All that shrinking and growing causes
micro tears that create a setup for atherosclerosis and other types of heart
disease. Liquid diets like, Master Cleanse, Dr. Linn's liquid formula
can cause protein-calorie malnutrition on the heart and atrophy of the
heart muscle. Crash diets often lead to a lack of sodium and potassium,
which both play key roles in the body�s nerve and muscle function. An
extreme lack of these two electrolytes can lead to heart failure.
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Bone Loss/Osteoporosis: A lack of calcium
intake that often occurs as
part of a crash diet can lead to robbing of calcium from bones or osteoporosis.
Many crash dieters suffer broken bones, particularly hips and wrists, as a
result of their osteoporosis. If you go for six months or so eating 800 or
900 calories a day, that�s likely to be bad for your bones.
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 Drop in Metabolism: Think
of your body as a very efficient machine that can accurately sense when
you�re taking in too few calories. When you are on a crash diet, your body
thinks it�s starving and holds on to every calorie you give it. The little
that you eat goes into storage as fat because your body does not know when
you are going to feed it again. And worse yet, the longer and more often you
stay on a restrictive diet, more fat gets stuck on your body. Multiple
cycles of crash dieting, begin to break down muscle faster than fat.
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Heightened moodiness: Crash diet have an extremely harsh effect
on your overall mental and emotional health. Not only does crash diet wreak
havoc with your mood but they also lead to extreme food cravings: you may
end up feeling more irritable or depressed than usual when you are on a
crash diet.
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Dehydration: When you deprive your body of food, you end up
depriving your body of much needed water. Many foods are rich in water
content, like vegetable and fruits, and when they are lacking from your
diet, dehydration can set in.
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Brittle Hair and dry skin: Due
to the lack of vitamins and minerals that your body receives through a
healthy diet, your hair can become terribly brittle and
fall out. Skin begins to show early sign of aging.
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Increased Craving of fat: Yo-yo
dieting has a definite affect
on food preferences, increasing the craving for fat. Fat is the most
concentrated source of calories in the diet, and the body appears to store
calories from fat more easily than surplus calories from carbohydrates or
protein.
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Lowered Immunity: There
are girls who can't even withstand the cool air coming from a fan in a
classroom, post a crash diet. They lose their power of immunity and
get affected really quickly!
Women should go on a very low calorie diet only under medical supervision, if
required.
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Dated 03 July 2015
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