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Can Fast Weight Loss Help Prevent Heart Disease and Other Aliment? People start losing weight for a number of reasons. Some want to achieve a well shaped body contour, others wish to cut down the risk of developing major medical disorders such as heart disease, diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), or cancer. In order to lose weight as fast as possible, one might just get into crash diets without seeking appropriate advice from doctors or dietitians. In crash diet, one has to drastically cut down the calories intake on a daily basis. It might pair with other weight loss methods including excessive exercise, use of diuretics or diet pills. Such dieting approach might cause nutritional deprivation and pose danger to one’s health. Most nutrition experts believe that people crashing diet periodically may weaken their immune system in the long run. Such view is supported by a study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, which found that yo-yo dieting may have a lasting negative impact on a woman's immune system. Yo-yo dieting is the term given to the phenomenon of repeated losing and gaining of weight. People going for crash diet will have their weight constantly fluctuating with each diet that they go on. Researchers from Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center conducted tests on 114 women in the study and found that those who went on yo-yo dieting had less natural killer cell activity compared to women who maintained the same weight for 5 years or more. Natural killer cells (or in short, NK cells) are important to the immune system. A decrease in NK activity would be associated with increased susceptibility to colds and infections as well as an increased risk of cancer.
Crash dieting can also result in releasing of toxins in the body that can end up with a weakened immune system. What does this mean? When a person gains weight, toxins could accumulate in fat cells. These toxins could be released into the blood stream when one undergoes sudden and dramatic weight loss. This can put pressure on the liver during the detoxification process causing lower immunity in the body. Furthermore, quick weight loss is usually accompanied by nutritional deficiencies that could undermine one’s natural defense system. Studies have also shown that infections do occur or become severe when there is a lack of specific nutrients such as polyunsaturated fatty acids, zinc, Vitamins A, B, C and E. Crash dieting might cause wounds that would not heal properly. In the long run, osteoporosis might be developed. This is because when one suddenly loses a great deal of weight, the bone mass might also be lost, and over time, this may lead to weakening of bones. If crash dieting is not encouraged, then what should people do if they are required to lose weight in order to prevent heart disease and other ailments? A person should adopt a good and healthy diet program that is slow and steady to lose weight. The program should emphasize on what to eat, exercise and other appropriate lifestyle changes. For example, one should sleep at a regular time and reduce alcohol intake. As a guideline, one should lose only 4 to 6 kilos per month. Starving is strictly prohibited even if one is anxious to lose those extra kilos in the body.
There are some ways to check if one is overdoing
the dieting program. Chronic fatigue, brittle nails, bad breath, changes in mood
such as becoming more irritable and hair loss are signs that indicate the
dieting program is inappropriate.
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