When people lose weight like this they very often shed muscle mass and water

Ukmedix News recently saw a survey which said that women spend huge amounts of money on dieting and keeping fit throughout their lives. Women (especially young women) obviously prize their appearances very highly and therefore are prepared to spend a considerable amount of what they earn on looking good.
However what interested us at Ukmedix News was that many women admitted to using extremely unhealthy ways of losing weight. The report noted that ten percent of women claim to have shed as much as three or four kilos in one week or even eight kilos in two weeks. This is obviously extremely unhealthy and very bad for you in the long and short term.

The survey which looked at over 2,000 young females of an average age of 23 noted that over half of them claim that when they decided to diet they would eat below 1,000 calories in a day and some say that they could even get by with only eating as little as 800 calories in a day. In extreme cases some women said that they had managed to go for a whole day without eating anything and some managed to even last for as many as four days. We do not need to remind you how dangerous this is for your health.

Other worrying trends were also the use of laxatives, deliberately making themselves vomit and taking illegal drugs such as cocaine or speed to quicken their heart rate and their metabolism so that they would burn off more calories.

When people lose weight like this they very often shed muscle mass and water from their bodies rather then fat, so while they may appear to look thinner they are in fact not shedding that much body fat as they would if they had been on a healthy diet. What is so ridiculous about these stupid diets is that very often women who diet like this end up by binging on food a few days later.

We have seen research at Ukmedix News which shows that people who deprive themselves of foodstuffs will eventually begin to crave them much more so than they do normally. It is not healthy to deprive yourself of carbs, protein, fruit, vegetables or anything that your body needs and you must therefore strive to have a healthy balanced diet. If you want to lose weight cut down sensibly on the quantity that you eat and for healthy weight loss you should not lose more then one kilo every week.