It is the careful control of the types of foods one eats and the amount of food eaten and is usually done in order to watch one’s weight; to make sure that one does not put on too much weight.
There are many different types of dieting, some require abstaining from certain foods, others involve eating very minute amounts of certain foods. A few of them are fasts, crash diets (taking below the 1,200 calories a day which is the standard amount of calories our bodies need every day), yo-yo diets, detox programs, and ‘cleanses’ (taking a mixture of water, lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper, based on the false theory of helping the body rid itself of waste). But all these involve eating very little food so too many calories do not get into the body.
Dieting can be done for days , and even weeks, which leaves semi-permanent harmful effects on our body.
Dieting has mixed views and opinions, even from medical professionals and trainers, with some saying it’s good and healthy and others saying it is harmful and detrimental to health.
The majority of experts however, take the latter view that it is harmful and detrimental to health and we are going to see some reasons why.
1. Dieting may cause heart attacks and other cardiovascular conditions
Dieting once will not hurt your heart, but repeated dieting will hurt your heart and may cause Atherosclerosis (deposits in blood vessels that may eventually block the vessel), and other heart diseases may occur as a result of the repeated shrinking and growing heart muscles undergo under.
The heart of dieters may also atrophies (decrease in size) due to the low calorie intake and heart palpitations (fast and irregular heart beat) may also occur.
All these conditions can stop the heart from working, which is a heart attack.
2. Dieting leads to fatigue and tiredness
Dieters take in less than the required amount of calories recommended a day. This makes them to be more tired and fatigued and with very little endurance or stamina.
Also because calorie intake of dieters is low, their metabolism also slows down to conserve energy, leading to very little energy for them to perform even everyday chores.
The body also breaks down muscle tissues so that they do not consume too much energy causing the dieter to end up with very weakened and out of tone muscles, hence, he will not also be able to do much.
3. Weight Gain
It is ironic that a procedure done to lose weight will instead add more weight. How can this be?
The bodies of dieters receive very little calories, so it will try to conserve energy by getting rid or reducing processes or organs that use too much energy ( like muscle tissues) and instead stockpile fats. The body makes it a priority to turn almost every ounce of food eaten and digested during this time, into fat molecules so that it can have a reserve of energy to keep going; hence the dieter gains weight.
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