Fad Diets, Quick And Fast Weight Loss Diets

Fad diets, quick and fast weight loss diets are a sort of diet plan or aid that aims at losing weight, usually in a relatively short time. Fad diets attract a large number of people who suffer from weight problems and are helplessly looking to some way of arriving at a more shapely body.

The problem with fad diets is that their fat-reducing effect is temporary and results in quick regain of weight that was lost.

What is worse is that most of these diets are harmful to your health.

Fad diets are not new. They date back to the mid 19th century when an obese Londoner UK was prescribed such a diet on experimental basis. Now, after a century and a half, fad diets have become popular among people with weight problems. Teens and young adults especially flock to fad diets for answers to their weight problems.

Fad diets, quick and fast wieght diets are usually centered on a higher consumption of fats or proteins while stressing to go easy on or in some cases, completely cutting out carbohydrates. It's the low intake of carbohydrates that brings about the rapid weight loss.

Fact, this rapid wieght loss is the loss of water that glycogen has stored.

With loss of glycogen, the large amount of water stored in it is also lost and body weight drops fast. The fats are still there and as the fad diets are given up, the body regains its proportion of water lost.

Weight is put back on as fast as it was lost.  

Normally, carbohydrates remain the source of energy for work. With fad diets, the carbs are no longer there, so the body starts using the stored fat, breaking it down.

This may appear beneficial but in fact it is not.

In the absence of carbs, fats cannot be completely oxidized and put to work. There fore, the body feels fatigued and weak. In addition, the ketone molecules resulting from the fat-breakdown accumulate in the blood and are excreted out via urine, causing dehydration.

Given the harmful health effects of fad diets, it is important for us, especially the weight-conscious people, to recognize and beware of these fad diet plans and programs.                        

Watch out for diets that:

Promise quick or fast weight loss.  ( be very careful)

Publicize before and after pictures ( ? )

Present weight-loss testimonials     ( most are made up)

Tend to limit natural food choices,  (bad for your health)

Require a large sum of money  to start  (hard on your pocket)

Start now pay later ( your hooked )

Fad diets, quick and fast weight loss diets may be popular, but they can greatly hurt your body, losing more than two pounds in a one week is bad for your health, so be careful with any diet or exercise program you may start...

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