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Question about losing weight
I've heard from a friend that losing weight to quickly could be
dangerous to your health. Does anyone have any research on this matter? What is the reasoning behind it? |
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Question about losing weight
The only way to lose weight quickly is to fast. Your body will consume its muscle. The heart is muscle. People who die after fasting or starving themselves tend to die of heart attacks. The way to get healthy is to exercise, including aerobics, and to eat limited numbers and sizes of portions, of a wide variety of high fiber low fat food. "Hoops" wrote in message ... I've heard from a friend that losing weight to quickly could be dangerous to your health. Does anyone have any research on this matter? What is the reasoning behind it? |
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Question about losing weight
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... I've heard from a friend that losing weight to quickly could be dangerous to your health. Does anyone have any research on this matter? What is the reasoning behind it? Another reason is that to lose weight quickly, you have to go through severe caloric restriction. It's very difficult to eat bellow 1200 calories and to maintain a proper micro-nutriment intake. If you don't take that into account, it's easy to end up with a severe mineral or vitamin deficiency, which can have some very very severe consequences. Like, I saw on TV a woman who had osteoporosis because of her "protein fast" diets, at barely 40... Your body needs vitamins, minerals, oligo-elements, essential fatty acids... That's a lot of supplements to take if you don't get these through foods. And many supplements are bad quality (they chemically contain these nutriments, but in a form the body has a very hard time assimilating). Also, the body has a hard time using some of these if it doesn't get some fat from the food (all fat solubles vitamins, some minerals like calcium). Finally, very low calorie diets often use a *lot* of non-soluble fibers to create some volume. Non-soluble fibers are not the best (soluble tends to be better; they make a better job at slowing carbs and give better protection from cancer). Too much fibers can flush vitamins before you get a chance to assimilate them. |
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"Hoops" wrote in message
... I've heard from a friend that losing weight to quickly could be dangerous to your health. Does anyone have any research on this matter? What is the reasoning behind it? Another reason is that to lose weight quickly, you have to go through severe caloric restriction. It's very difficult to eat bellow 1200 calories and to maintain a proper micro-nutriment intake. If you don't take that into account, it's easy to end up with a severe mineral or vitamin deficiency, which can have some very very severe consequences. Like, I saw on TV a woman who had osteoporosis because of her "protein fast" diets, at barely 40... Your body needs vitamins, minerals, oligo-elements, essential fatty acids... That's a lot of supplements to take if you don't get these through foods. And many supplements are bad quality (they chemically contain these nutriments, but in a form the body has a very hard time assimilating). Also, the body has a hard time using some of these if it doesn't get some fat from the food (all fat solubles vitamins, some minerals like calcium). Finally, very low calorie diets often use a *lot* of non-soluble fibers to create some volume. Non-soluble fibers are not the best (soluble tends to be better; they make a better job at slowing carbs and give better protection from cancer). Too much fibers can flush vitamins before you get a chance to assimilate them. |
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Question about losing weight
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wrote: "Hoops" wrote in message ... I've heard from a friend that losing weight to quickly could be dangerous to your health. Does anyone have any research on this matter? What is the reasoning behind it? Never mind the research. if you tend to gain weight and have trouble losing it you've been handed a lifelong challenge. So if you lose your weight in six weeks you'll look great for a special event but what stretches ahead is lifelong vigilance so the rate of loss doesn't mean much long term. I've kept over 80 pounds off nearly five years but don't recall how quickly I lost it. -- Diva ******** Completing 4 years of maintenance |
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In article , Lictor
wrote: "Hoops" wrote in message ... I've heard from a friend that losing weight to quickly could be dangerous to your health. Does anyone have any research on this matter? What is the reasoning behind it? Never mind the research. if you tend to gain weight and have trouble losing it you've been handed a lifelong challenge. So if you lose your weight in six weeks you'll look great for a special event but what stretches ahead is lifelong vigilance so the rate of loss doesn't mean much long term. I've kept over 80 pounds off nearly five years but don't recall how quickly I lost it. -- Diva ******** Completing 4 years of maintenance |
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