EXPLORING THE DANGERS OF FAD DIETS
normal calorie consumption, the scale is likely to creep back up. There’s a reason baby food is for babies!
When you hear it’s possible to lose 10 pounds in two weeks, it’s surely tempting to at least look into the new diet that your friend or coworker is raving about. Desperate to lose weight, millions of people worldwide fall victim to fad diets to achieve quick weight loss. Unfortunately, many of them are dangerous to your health and may fall short of expectations. Certain fad diets may shed some pounds, but in most cases, the results are temporary and can be harmful to your health. Some of the more well-known fad diets include the Baby Food Diet, the Tapeworm Diet, the Fruitarian Diet, and the Cabbage Soup Diet. These diets drastically restrict calories, cut out major food groups, may lack ample (if any) protein, and are not sustainable. We all want a quick fix regarding waist size, but these diets are not worth risking your body. The Baby Food Diet, which allows you to eat a jar of baby food for a few meals a day, drastically restricts calories. You’ll lose weight, but it will send your body into starvation mode, leading it to conserve calories. More notably, once you wean off this fad diet and return to
Likely one of the most dangerous diets is the Tapeworm Diet, which directs people to consume a pill that grows an actual tapeworm in their stomach, and the parasite consumes the food and nutrients that are ingested. Banned by the FDA, this diet is hopefully no longer used by people! Some other diets, such as the Fruitarian Diet or Cabbage Soup Diet, involve eating foods from only one food group, which takes the necessary balance out of your diet! When you only eat one type of food, you deny your body other nutrients and essential fatty acids present in other foods. Because fad diets are so restrictive and eliminate many different kinds of food, they can leave you feeling weak, tired, and more prone to illness. The bottom line is fairly simple: If the result of fad diet seems too good to be true, it probably is!
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