Wednesday, June 27, 2012

The Real Facts Regarding Very Low Calorie Diets

By Jonas Varig


Anytime you are thinking about an extreme diet, you need to do your background work and find out the specifics first. This type of diet can be helpful, but not necessarily entirely health oriented; it would be best to have an approval from your doctor. We will be taking an in depth view of these extreme diets, and figure out the plus side and see if there are any deficits as well.

Whenever you make an intense modification to your body, you will be imposing possible negative effects as a result. With the reduction of calories, when dieting; you can sometimes have unwelcome results. A few of the negative results may be fatigue, nausea or certain problems with your bowels. Sometimes obese people who go on very low calorie diets develop gallstones, although this may be a result of rapid weight loss, rather then the diet itself. Any time you are on one of these diets and start seeing any of these symptoms, contact your physician.

The Rice Diet is a diet that was developed in the 1930s by a doctor named Walter Kempner, who found that a diet that consisted mainly of rice could be useful for treating certain diseases such as hypertension and kidney diseases. This is a low calorie diet that can also help people to lose weight. This diet does not call for rice alone, but it is eaten with absolutely everything else you do eat; so you are up for a battle if you do not already like rice. The advantage of the Rice Diet is that it cuts out processed foods, and is extremely low in fat, salt and sugar. Most dieters may not wish to continue this food plan for any considerable amount of time; it is very intense.

In England in the 1970s the Cambridge Diet, which is a very low calorie diet, was developed. Due to you receiving foods that are pre-packaged on this diet, your calorie intake will be low in addition to having all of the essential nutrition you need calculated for you. These can be in the form of meal bars, shakes and soups. This diet does have some disadvantages, even though people have been successful with it and it has been around for a while. On this diet you cannot do exercise that's very intense and you must drink plenty of water as to avoid dehydration. Also, people can find themselves fed up of consuming packaged meals. Before going on a diet like the Cambridge Diet you need to consult your doctor to find out whether it's safe for you.

From this article you can see that very low calorie diets have good and bad points to them. If you are threatened by a health problem like diabetes, heart disease or hypertension then this diet may be for you. If you are not this overweight, then you should just do regular exercise and eat a less extreme diet.




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