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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Liquid Diets Are Not Good For Weight Loss

By Walter Marsaki

Liquid diets are popular among people who want rapid weight loss. But are they really good?

Just taking liquid diets for many days is absolutely unhealthy habit. You expect rapid weight loss based on just liquid diets, but you forget that you will lose muscles mass when you go for such dieting.

Your body will not get all the required energy for its functioning from the liquid diet. So what will it do?

The body will not have any other option but to burn fat first and then the muscles in order to get energy. So you will lose muscles.

When you start eating solid food again, your body is likely to gain back the weight again which it lost. However, the muscles are not so easy to gain back.

You will have to exercise regularly in order to gain back the muscles you lost. When you lose muscles, your body becomes weaker than before.

As muscle loss makes your body weak, it is not a good practice to embark on liquid diets for fast weight loss.

Most liquid diets consist of low calories in the range of 400-800 calories per day. Many overweight people will not be accustomed to such low calorie intake.

Drastic reduction in calories might cause a lot of unwanted side effects. Thus it is better if you try to lose weight slowly and steadily and not aim for overnight weight loss.

Lets recap the major problems with liquid diets - muscle loss, sudden reduction in calories, weakness of body and problem in keeping the weight off.

Liquid dieting is a short term solution. You will struggle to keep the weight off after you start eating solid foods. And you cannot remain on liquid diets forever.

Once you call off the diet, you have high chances of gaining back atleast some of the weight you lost. However, sometimes you might gain back more weight than your original one.

Such rapid weight loss tactics will cause more of muscle loss than real fat loss. They might also cause reduction in metabolic rate.

Beware of continuing liquid diets for a long time. They might cause serious health problems.

Being on liquid diets for many days might cause damage to kidneys and lungs. Your immune system may also become weak with liquid dieting. These are important organs of the body and one should be careful regarding them.

I am sure, no one will like to cause permanent damage to these organs. Hence it is better to try to lose weight through healthy methods.

Final verdict is that liquid dieting is not a good option for long term weight loss. It is best not to try it out as a means of rapid weight loss. - 17269

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