Crash Dieting Weight Loss Plans

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.

Quick-weight-loss diets generally put far too much importance on one particular food or type of food. They don’t include a mixture of foods or at least a healthy balance, a violation of the first principle of good nutrition, eat a balanced diet that includes a variety of foods. If you are able to stay on such a diet for more than a few weeks, you may develop nutritional deficiencies, because no one type of food has all the elements a human being needs for good health.

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.

The second principle of good nutrition is that eating should be enjoyable. You think eating only cabbages every day is enjoyable?. It’s impossible to stay on these diets for a long time because they’re so monotonous. 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. Many don’t encourage physical activity, for example, walking 30 minutes most or all days of the week. While doing nothing can lead to heart problems, exercise is a major element of maintaining proper weight. When a diet mentions no need for a workout, run the other way.

Quick weight loss is possible. Just don’t fall for tricks or gimmicks that might end up destroying your health.

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