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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Liquid Diets Are Not Good For Weight Loss

By Walter Marsaki

Many people wonder about liquid diets in order to lose weight. Want to know the truth about them?

It is not good to take liquid diets for many days. You may burn a little bit of fat, but you will also burn muscles of your body.

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

At first, the body will try to get energy by burning fat then later on will burn muscles to gain more energy. So you will lose muscles with continued use of liquid diets.

Once you start eating solid food, the weight that you lost might come back again. But the muscles are unlikely to be back so easily.

When you lose muscles, you will become weaker. You have to do regular exercises in order to gain back the muscles.

As muscle loss equals weakness, so you are causing a lot of harm to your body by using liquid diets.

Most people are not accustomed to low calorie intake that you get from liquid diets. Most liquid diets will consist of calories in the range of 400-800 per day.

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.

The major problems associated with liquid diets are muscle loss, sudden and drastic reduction in calorie intake, weakness and keeping the weight off.

Remember that you cannot continue liquid diets forever. Once you start solid foods, it can get pretty difficult to maintain the weight loss. The weight is likely to come back. As such, liquid dieting is a temporary solution.

Sometimes, you might gain back more weight than when you started out. At other times, you might gain back atleast some of the weight you lost during dieting.

These temporary solutions will cause muscle loss more than real fat loss. They can also cause metabolic rate to drop.

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.

Remember - liquid dieting may not at all be effective for long term weight loss. So it is not a recommended method of shedding pounds. - 17274

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