Why fad diets fail?

The famous strict diets or miscalled "low calories" are base on the idea that the fewer calories consume, the mayor amount of weight lose. However, promise magical results in a brief time disappear over a long period. This reality, which repeats in each new fad diet, has a rational explanation that reveals why the effects cannot be keeping. Even more, the limited and low consume of calories (energy throughout food) in the long term can mean a body great effort causing a variety of negative health consequences.

The drastic reduction of food intake and lack of essential nutrients explains why people whom follow strict diets end up starving, dehydrate, with overweight and an awful nutrition. To top it all, these diets produce an obsessive behavior associated with continuous weight control and calorie consumed and they generate compulsive behaviors related to food. You cannot do a lifetime record of what food and calories you must take. Therefore, people end up hating the scale, because this innocent device evidences a reality that contradicts the false promise of a diet.

The initial weight that you can lose with some of the fad diets is the result of a significant fluids loss. Without a proper medical supervision, this process can represent a danger to the body, causing disorders associated with body dehydration. In addition, strict diets can generate a significant weight reduction and fat levels loss, but at the same time may cause a loss of muscle mass and body energy. The body immediately detects that the food intake has been reduce and starts to function in inanition or alert condition, doing everything possible to conserve the reserves of energy that it has. This means that the less you eat in a long term, the less ability to burn energy your body will has, which is why you always will maintain your body weight without variation, no matter how little you eat.

“The drastic reduction of food intake and lack of essential nutrients explains why people whom follow strict diets end up starving, dehydrate, with overweight and an awful nutrition.”