Beware! Your Diet May Not be Healthy
Are you on a diet?
Most of us at some stage of our lives are on a diet to either lose weight or to decrease the size of our butts or just to feel better.
But, are you sure that the diet plan that you are following is healthy?
It may be helping you lose weight but it may also be helping you lose your immunity or may be harming your internal organs thereby causing long term harm
Here are some of the common dieting downsides:
Do not follow a diet that makes you cut out an entire food group, even for a short period. Your body needs all the food groups for sustenance, so try to decrease the quantity, but do not eliminate a food group altogether.
In the same concept, do not follow a diet which asks you to concentrate only on one type of food. You are again making the same mistake, you are depriving your body of the nutrients that it needs.
Diets which are dependent on packaged meals or specific meals work very well for a short time, but once you go back to your normal food habits, they cease to work. They lack variety, they prevent you from eating socially and they also slow your metabolism.
Hence, no matter which diet plan you follow, do take care to see that you do not deprive yourself of adequate nutrition and that there are no negative long term consequences.
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:36 am
Exactly! I totally agree with you. People do misunderstood the meaning of dieting. They just simply think they don’t have to eat anything and for whole day they just survive on small quantity of food,or even only juice. Dieting means to cut the extra fats and calories from your meals and instead of them taking healthy with all essential nutrients and light food. Drinking lots and lots of water is anytime helpful in anyway whether you diet or not. Well you have shown light to some of the important points which every diet concerned person should take care of.
October 3rd, 2009 at 1:25 am
As mentioned in this article its very true to say that diet only woks for short term . a person who needs to reduce weight should judiciously plan his or her diet ,i would rather say not something that you will not continue after sometime but something you will adapt in your lifestyle.crash diets results in great weight loss but at the same time internal loss also.
October 17th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Very nice and informative post, we should try to obey this article…
It’s been proven: fad diets are ineffective for losing weight, and even less so for maintaining a healthy weight over the long term. Stop yoyo dieting and adopt healthy lifestyle habits
Thanks for sharing…
August 15th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
I’m not sure I agree that the body needs all food groups to survive. I have been paleo (very little carbohydrates) for several months and I haven’t felt any problems at all.
The only change is that I have lost some weight and got a sixpack instead of a very small belly