Weight Loss Gone Fad!
Weight loss is a struggle for most people, and these days most people are busy.
That is why when looking for a weight loss solution many people turn to the 'quick fix' methods.
Those fast-track options include diet pills, special shakes, fasting, crash diets, colonic enemas, liquid only diets, laxatives and so on.
These fad diets and weight loss options will indeed shed a few pounds, however, they do it the unhealthy way which means you usually end up gaining the weight back, if not more and you can seriously cause harm to you body.
Weight loss is only successful when it is attained the healthy way, which involves a nutritional diet and regular exercise.
Diet pills can contain things such as Sibutramine, which can cause heart attacks and strokes, and Phenolphthalein, which has cancer risks.
When you take a diet pill, you just do not know exactly what you are putting in your body.
The same is true with the shakes and some laxatives.
Weight loss always involves a diet, however crash diets differ only slightly from starvation and actually cause your metabolism to slow down and start storing fat for energy.
The crash diet will initially show a decrease in weight, but in the long run it serves only to increase fat! Similarly, fasting uses stored fat for energy as well, and of course there is not a potential to gain as there is no food intake involved.
However, that just means fasting is starvation, and in this scenario the fat is used for energy only after the body uses up all the glycogen stored in muscles, which causes muscle wasting, and that is certainly not good.
Enemas and colonic cleansing techniques are not necessarily bad for your body, but they offer minimal weight loss and when used consistently or excessively, can disrupt the natural chemical balance in the bowel and cause anemia or malnutrition.
Liquid only diets lack the fiber, proteins and vitamins essential to adequately maintain energy levels in the body.
As with crash diets and fasting, the inadequate nutrition of the liquid only diets will only cause the metabolism to slow and the body to eventually turn to fat storage, which will inevitably lead to weight gain.
In the long run, weight loss is just not a quick or fast process, it is slow and requires optimum nutrition to fuel the body.
That is why when looking for a weight loss solution many people turn to the 'quick fix' methods.
Those fast-track options include diet pills, special shakes, fasting, crash diets, colonic enemas, liquid only diets, laxatives and so on.
These fad diets and weight loss options will indeed shed a few pounds, however, they do it the unhealthy way which means you usually end up gaining the weight back, if not more and you can seriously cause harm to you body.
Weight loss is only successful when it is attained the healthy way, which involves a nutritional diet and regular exercise.
Diet pills can contain things such as Sibutramine, which can cause heart attacks and strokes, and Phenolphthalein, which has cancer risks.
When you take a diet pill, you just do not know exactly what you are putting in your body.
The same is true with the shakes and some laxatives.
Weight loss always involves a diet, however crash diets differ only slightly from starvation and actually cause your metabolism to slow down and start storing fat for energy.
The crash diet will initially show a decrease in weight, but in the long run it serves only to increase fat! Similarly, fasting uses stored fat for energy as well, and of course there is not a potential to gain as there is no food intake involved.
However, that just means fasting is starvation, and in this scenario the fat is used for energy only after the body uses up all the glycogen stored in muscles, which causes muscle wasting, and that is certainly not good.
Enemas and colonic cleansing techniques are not necessarily bad for your body, but they offer minimal weight loss and when used consistently or excessively, can disrupt the natural chemical balance in the bowel and cause anemia or malnutrition.
Liquid only diets lack the fiber, proteins and vitamins essential to adequately maintain energy levels in the body.
As with crash diets and fasting, the inadequate nutrition of the liquid only diets will only cause the metabolism to slow and the body to eventually turn to fat storage, which will inevitably lead to weight gain.
In the long run, weight loss is just not a quick or fast process, it is slow and requires optimum nutrition to fuel the body.
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