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Weight loss, fad-diet and its irreversible health effects: know your diet

Weight loss, fad-diet and its irreversible health effects: know your diet
While this might work wonders for some, it can also harm other individuals or body types. So, checking with your nutritionist before jumping into the fad is imperative. Nature always reciprocates your efforts to build a healthy lifestyle, provided you know your nutritional state and address it correctly.

While popularity of fad-diets increases for their quick results, their health effects could be detrimental. If you are following a diet that's unusually strict, you should read this.

Written by Sukriti Shahi |Published : October 20, 2019 4:09 PM IST

It's important to keep your weight under check. It's also important to be disciplined when it comes to your diet. Eating right, at times eating less and taking only that you think is essential for body all this too is right to an extent. But are you following a fad-diet just because it promises to give instant results? If yes, you might have put your health in trouble.

Fad-diets: what body goes through?

Imagine, if at all a single fad-diet is beneficial, why would there be a need of a new one? These come in so frequently that it's difficult to even analyse their effects. Fad-diets alter the metabolism of the body. You are body is a mode of eating everything till a point when you suddenly start telling it what to eat and when. Also, the basic rule of any diet is based on cutting a group of food altogether from the diet. For instance, cutting all carbs and relying only protein. Now this may result in quick weight loss but eventually your body is devoid of all kinds of carbs, even good ones which are essential for body functioning.

Another important point to think of while starting a diet is how long you will be able to continue with the diet? If you think it's sustainable, making it a way of life might not be a problem. If in case it's a short-term plan, it's not less than a shock for a body to get back to the normal diet plan after dieting. Few diets even make you lose your muscle weight. While it will reflect on your weight scale, when this weight gets back it adds more fat and replaces the muscle weight that was lost.

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Side-effects of fad-diet

Dehydration: Factually, the major part of the weight that's lost because of fad-diets is water weight. That's the reason for quick weight loss and thus it can result in dehydration. Body has a particular pattern of losing weight; it happens gradually in phases. If you force your body to lose weight in lesser time, there will be repercussions and dehydration is the major one. Hydration is the key, losing water weight can result in serious headaches, nausea, migraines and serious health issues.

Lack of energy: If you restrict calories, body will be left with lesser resources to generate energy from. Therefore, it starts using stored fat and then the muscle fat to generate energy. This leaves you tired and feeling fatigued. However, a good diet will always leave you energetic.

Digestive issues: Your body takes time to adjust to a new diet. This means even the metabolism of the body gets altered and it takes time to adjust to the new diet. Also, in the absence of a particular food group, your body might not be getting nutrients that are important for its gut health. This can either result in serious diarrhoea or constipation.

Malnutrition: Such diets are not balanced; these usually cut off one food type from the diet for a long period. This can prevent body from getting all essential nutrients. Remember, body needs everything, and you cannot have a healthy weight loss if you are keeping it away from any of the nutrients. Therefore, it may result in serious malnutrition issue in the absence of any food segment.