Quick Weight Loss Is it Healthy
April 23, 2009 by Ron C George
Filed under Diet
The American Heart Association recommends adopting healthy eating habits permanently, rather than impatiently pursuing quick diets in hopes of losing unwanted pounds in a few days through fad quick weight loss plans.
A number of these fad diets, such as the well known but outright silly Cabbage Soup Diet, will effect your wellbeing, and possibly cause physical discomfort (abdominal discomfort and flatulence and lead to the ping-pong effect of gaining weight shortly after losing it. In simple terms the risks far outweight the rewards.
One food or one type of food is generally overemphasized with fad quick weight loss diets. They violate the first principle of good nutrition which is to eat a balanced diet that includes a variety of foods. Because no one food has all the nutrients required for good health, these diets can result in a lot of health problems.
One such diet is the Cabbage Soup Diet. The deception of this fad diet is that cabbage soup is some sort of fat dissolving potion. The diet supposedly helps heart patients lose 10 to17 pounds in seven days before surgery. Even if the weight loss claim were true, all the damage due to a lack of many essential nutrients would far outweigh the benefits of losing the weight. Pixies, elves and fairies, or even cabbages, can’t create mystical weight loss programs. Planning in eating all the main food groups is the best way to go.
These crazy diets also break a second important principle of good nutrition which is that eating should be enjoyable.. It’s impossible to stay on these diets for a long time because they’re so bland. Consider a week on the Cabbage Soup Diet. By mid week crawling bugs would look good. They’d cart you off in a straight jacket by week’s end.
There are many other ways fad diets aren’t good diets. Most don’t include physical activity, for example, walking 30 minutes most or all days of the week. Physical activity helps maintain weight loss, while physical inactivity is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. When a diet mentions no need for a workout, run the other way.
Quick weight loss sounds great. It is realistic. Just don’t fall for tricks or gimmicks that might end up destroying your health.
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