Erroneous Diets I
Every day, lots of wrong diets that are followed faithfully by many gullible and that not only do not produce an adequate weight loss, but can be harmful to health.
1. Diet Water
2. Very low calorie diets
3. Atkins Diet
4. Diet Montiñac
5. Hollywood Diet
6. Macrobiotic Diet
1. Diet Water
It consists of drinking only water and vitamins and mineral complexes. On this diet, glucose needed by the brain will be extracted glycogen (a type of carbohydrate) stored in the liver.
After the first days, the glycogen stores are depleted and the brain gets the 100 grams of glucose need per day from protein.
The muscles and other body obtain energy by burning fat in a process that generates acetone, a substance that removes the feeling of hunger.
The use of proteins, which are plastic material of the muscles and other parts of the body, makes them suffer a deterioration in structure and function, making them especially dangerous when it affects the heart muscle.
The basal metabolic rate, which would be our caloric needs if we were to no activity, is reduced and tend to decrease in physical activity. If it continues to insist on water diet, muscle failure risks, especially the heart, which can kill the patient
When the diet is abandoned eventually gain the weight back, but recovery of the muscle is slow and difficult, especially the older the patient has.
2. Very low calorie diets
It is known, in general, VLCD (very low calorie diet). They provide 400 to 600 calories a day and are available in powder form, bars or shakes.
- Include the proteins necessary to prevent damage to the body due to lack of protein, but provides little carbohydrate, so the energy we need is obtained by burning fat, thus increasing the acetone (ketone bodies).
- Lack of fiber that should be managed separately to avoid constipation.
- You should eat always with 2 or 3 liters of water a day.
- Often there is an increase of uric acid, which is to be treated with medication.
- By providing such a small amount of calories the body, reducing energy needs and spends far less, thereby preventing the weight loss is as dramatic as expected.
- For all this, such diets should be used only when there are special circumstances which warrant a rapid decrease in weight (respiratory failure, sleep apnea ..) and always managed by a doctor.
Do not use when you have a disease, such as heart failure, kidney or liver disease or who has ever had a myocardial infarction or cerebral thrombosis, etc..
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