Thursday, May 31, 2012

What Are Crash Diets And Do They Help In Losing Weight


Crash diets are a new trend of dieting in the world of health and fitness. Although, these kinds of diets already exists for years, modern crash diets have good and bad effects. Most of the time, it works well at the beginning and it ain't helping in a long-term. So, let's discuss what is it in this post so that you will be aware and informed about its pros and cons, whether it's for you or not.

Majority of individuals who wants to lose weight know that it is a combination of healthy diet and appropriate workout, there is no shortcuts, actually. But crash diets are formulated for quick weight loss results, but, it is important to explore these kinds of diets if they're really healthy and sustainable to keep up a good level of health and fitness.

Crash diets are actually diet programs that take extreme alteration to the typical healthy diet, such as extreme reduction of calorie and protein consumption within a certain specified of time. As you can see, this type of diet isn't for long-term implementation. You can immediately sense that this is really not a healthy lifestyle switch.

One other diet component that is dramatically reduced is the consumption of water. Also, while the amount of calories, carbohydrates and protein are being reduced, the number of meals is also being reduced as well as its servings.

Basically, we can call this diet a hunger dieting, funny, but it's basically it. Mostly, a dieter following this diet program will consume mostly of soups, like that of cabbage soups.

Disadvantages and Dangers

Although this kind of diet can help lose weight, most of the time it has a lot of dangers associated with it. In fact, majority of health and fitness experts, dietician and medical practitioners don't recommend crash diets, unless it's necessary in certain conditions.

Below are the dangers that are associated with it;
  1. Calorie deficiency
  2. Weaken mental wellness
  3. Dehydration
  4. Possible cause of internal organ defects such liver and kidney
Additionally, crash diet can cause a Yo-Yo or plateau dieting habit which is not good and it's not helpful in achieving a weight loss goals. This can promote discouragement and can lead one to think that losing weight is simply a dream that can never be materialized. As I mentioned earlier, you must aim and look for ways to motivate yourself in order to maintain that enthusiasm achieving your desired weight and well-being.

So, if you're aiming for a healthy lifestyle switch and aim to maintain the ideal weight, you shouldn't be going for crash diets. No matter what are the benefits they're offering, they're simply short-term.

These diets maybe good for you if you're up to something to lose weight quickly, like of those commercial models that needs to re-shape their figure due to upcoming photo shoot. Hence, this is short-term diet regimen and must not be taken if you're looking to have a healthy and maintain the weight that you want for a lifetime.

Here are quick tips that can help achieve quick weight loss results which are healthy and for long-term implementation. Take these tips instead of having to think about crash dieting.

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