Secrets To Quick Weight Loss

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Quick weight loss plans and fad diets are an unwise alternative to permanent healthy eating habits, according to the American Heart Association. Many of these fad diets, such as the notorious and outright silly Cabbage Soup Diet, will undermine your health, cause physical problems (abdominal discomfort and flatulence(gas)) and lead to the yo-yo’ing effect of gaining weight back soon after parting with it. In other words the risks aren’t worth the rewards.

One food or one type of food is usually overemphasized with fad quick weight loss diets. They don’t include much variety or 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 stick with such a diet for more than a few weeks, you could develop nutritional deficiencies, because no one type of food has all the nutrients a human being needs for good health.

The Cabbage Soup Diet is one example. The myth of this diet is that cabbage soup is some sort of weight loss potion. The diet supposedly helps heart patients lose 10–17 pounds in seven days before surgery. Even if the weight loss claim were true, all the damage due to a lack of a host of important nutrients would far outweigh (pun intended) the benefits of losing the weight. Pixies, elves and fairies, or even cabbages, can’t provide magical weight loss. Moderation in eating all the major 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 stick with these diets for a long time because they’re so dull. Consider a week on the Cabbage Soup Diet. By Wednesday you’d dread meal time, and by Friday you’d never again want to hear about a cabbage let alone eat the soup. They would probably have to carry you away in a straight jacket by Sunday.

Boredom isn’t the only reason quick weight loss diets aren’t good for your health. Most don’t talk about exercise, such as aerobics for 30 minutes a day every day. Physical activity helps maintain weight loss, while physical inactivity is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. When you hear of a diet that includes “no need for exercise” run for the hills, or at least run on a treadmill.

Quick weight loss really sounds great. It is a possibility. Just don’t fall for those cons or scams that might end up ruining your health in the process.

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