Fad Dieting vs. Diet and Excercise Reform
...is a “money-back guarantee” behind the product to help ensure its results. No doubt that most of these products can provide quick results to help burn the extra pounds off. Fad diets usually seem like a dream come true, they have quick results, but at what expense to your body? What happens to your body when it is consuming high amounts of a caffeinated diet drug? What if it is using other diet aids such as ginseng or a mixture of herbs that will speed up the metabolism and increase the calorie burning process within your body? What health risks are involved with using fad diets? More than people realize the affects on the body can be severely detrimental. A human body can become dependent on chemicals quite easily or else we wouldn’t have the problems with alcohol and drug abuse. These diet aids within fad diets are also a form of a chemical. So when a body gets used to consistently receiving caffeine or ginseng, for example, and one day the body stops receiving the dose it is used to, a body can go into withdrawals. For more serious health risks, evaluate the drug Fen Phen, a very popular weight loss drug that was approved years ago by the FDA. After a long time passed it was discovered to possibly cause a weakening of heart valves in approximately 1/3 of the users according to various news reports. Along with the health risks, evaluate how long the weight stays off after completing a cycle using a fad diet drug or herbal product. If a person quits the particular product that was so successful helping that person lose weight, what kind of eating and exercise habits has that person developed in order to help maintain goal weight? A majority of the time a person will go back to their old eating habits and lack of exercise to find that just months later he or she is right back where he or she started. Serious precautions need to be taken when deciding on using a fad diet, consultation with a doctor, evaluation of possible health risks, and what it will take to keep the weight off once it has been lost when the decision has been made to use a fad diet. Some of the same precautions apply for initiating and developing a diet and exercise reformation. A person should consult their physician before beginning any programs that include a more stringent diet and a more intense level of exercise. Indeed, in a diet and exercise reform the results come slower. Approximately one to two pounds a week is the average result. The health risks are minima...