Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Crash Diet Fast Weight Loss

Crash Diet Fast Weight Loss was written by Alberta McKain and he writes "What is a Crash Diet?

A crash diet is a diet which is extremely severe,usually severely restricting calories intake,it is designed for very fast weight loss.It is one of the most restrictive types of weight loss diets that you can follow. It involves drastically cutting back calories and fat intake on a daily basis.

Similar to a starvation diet, a crash diet is often followed together with other weight loss options including extreme exercise routines or the use of diuretic or diet pills..

Thousands of men and women follow crash diets every year wishing that they will lose weight in a very short period of time. Anyway, crash diets are recognized by health care professionals and dieticians as being a very dangerous way of trying to lose weight.

Designed to achieve very fast weight loss, a crash diet differs from starvation only slightly. Crash diets are typically unhealthy and are rarely,if ever,recommended by doctors or dietitians. Crash diets can lead to malnutrition and body damage if kept for a long time.

The weight you carry is determined by the balance you achieve between the number of calories you take in and the number of calories you burn every day.

Eat more calories than you consume and you gain weight. This is a positive caloric balance.

Eating less calories than you consume to lose weight is a negative caloric balance.

On a crash diet, you are likely to go into a huge negative caloric balance for a very fast weight loss. This negative caloric balance usually can be too big, causing major damages in your body.

As a result of crash diets,you achieve a very fast weight loss,but not a healthy one.Many pounds are lost, but much of them is not fat. Instead, the body damage alarms your body and it starts conserving energy and fat.Your body will lose more muscle mass and stored sugar and water, which accounts for the easy loss of many pounds early on.

A crash diet causes you to get smaller and lose muscle mass quickly, reducing your metabolism,and this is not good.Your low caloric intake puts a damper on metabolism, lowering it further.As you can guess,that's not good,because you know that in order to accelerate weight loss you must accelerate the metabolism too.

Combining these factors will soon get you to the point where your caloric intake and expenditure are not that much different, causing the plateau effect.

Sensible weight-loss plans can also lead to plateaus, because sometimes you will get smaller and your metabolism will decrease accordingly. But the approach is much sensible and the effect is less dramatic.

With sensible weight loss, you lose body fat. Although you also may lose some muscle mass, you won't lose much, which helps you maintain a higher metabolism. This means that it takes much longer to reach a plateau. Plus, when you reach it, all you need to do is tweak your approach by adding a little more daily exercise and cutting your caloric intake slightly.

The two combined will increase the gap between intake and expenditure of calories,neutralising the plateau effect and starting weight loss again.

In contrast, on a typical crash diet, you are not exercising and you already have decreased your caloric intake to minimum. To get your weight loss moving again, you have to just about starve yourself, which would cause a loss of muscle mass, a further decrease in metabolism and a new plateau quickly.

The conclusion: Lose weight slowly and healthy to ensure that you are losing body fat and not muscle. When you do, plateaus are less likely and can be removed easily.

An example crash diet consists in a daily intake of 4 glasses of low-fat milk, 4 bananas, and 1 vitamin capsule.A boiled egg may be substituted with a banana.Eating only this every day will surely lead you to a fast loss of weight,but not a healthy one.

Avoiding crash diets for fast weight loss by losing weight in the healthy way

If you are willing to lose some weight, it is best to avoid crash diets at all costs. Instead,try to follow a healthy fast weight loss method by following these tips:

Speak with your doctor before beginning any weight loss plan. He can provide you with tips on how to lose weight much safely.

Don’t cut back on calories too quickly. Instead, slowly reduce calories so that your body’s metabolism doesn’t slow down,to have an effective loss of weight.

Focus on limiting portion sizes and choosing healthier foods.Also start regular exercise and you will find that your weight is decreasing.

Look at your weight loss plan not as a diet,as a healthy new lifestyle. This will encourage you to continue to with healthy eating habits on long-term.

Alberta McKain is nutritionist woman who used to be fat. After testing tens of so-called "wonder diets" she decided to create a Weight Loss Programs Review Website, containing a top of the 3 best programs with a brief description about their features and benefits.

Visiting the website will help you make a wise decision. http://www.LoseWeightFast.999answers.com


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Thursday, January 04, 2007

Obesity and Weight Loss Surgery

Obesity and Weight Loss Surgery was written by Beverley Brooke and she writes "Let's face facts; obesity is ripe today in America and rising on a global scale in western civilisation - where are we going wrong. Being a health and fitness nut I would simply recommend eating a balanced diet and exercise often, but you've heard all that before, and it doesn't work for you, right? That's ok, losing weight is tough, especially for those who some doctors would class as morbidly obese, which are those people who weight 50-100% their ideal body weight.

For these people - and you may be one of them, which is why you found your way to one of my many articles on weight loss surgery, diet simply isn't a viable solution, and some seek a more permanent solution like weight loss surgery.

The most popular weight loss surgery as we all know is the gastric bypass. The stomach stapling, the miracle cure, the 'life's never been so good' surgery as some marketing wizards would have you believe - and for some it certainly is..

Weight loss surgery can bring quick and long lasting results of permanent weight loss, though I certainly don't recommend it as a convenient solution to obesity, but those morbidly obese with their immediate health in danger I would certainly recommend researching the area of weight loss surgery to find out more.

My website is one such place where you can find a large area dedicated to gastric bypass surgery, and there are many others around the Internet.

Article by Beverley Brooke, visit the section on gastric bypass on her website for more information on gastric bypass and weight loss surgery http://www.healthandfinesse.com/gastric-bypass.html

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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Weight Loss Surgery Basics

Weight Loss Surgery Basics was written by Wayne Mcgregor and he writes "The physical and mental discomfort associated with being morbidly obese can be overwhelming. There are so many health risks related to obesity, including diabetes, high blood pressure, depression, sleep apnea, and acid reflux. These conditions can greatly shorten a person’s life span and quality of life. And often, an obese person has tried every diet and exercise regime out there in order to lose weight, to no avail. For those that are more than 100 pounds over their ideal weight, it might seem like weight loss surgery is the only solution.

Weight loss surgery is often meant for those individuals who are 100 pounds or more over their ideal weight, or that have a body mass index (BMI) over 40. Potential patients often have to show proof (both to the doctor and the insurance company) that they have attempted to lose weight through various means of diet and exercise unsuccessfully..

Weight loss surgery is not intended to be used as form of cosmetic surgery. It is major surgery, with several potential complications, and the decision to do it should not be entered into lightly.

Before making the decision to have any type of weight loss surgery, know all of the facts and options. Ask the bariatric surgeon and any other doctors many questions, and make sure that the answers are completely understood. Know all of the potential risks, and understand the commitment that will be required after the surgery. Weight loss surgery is not a fix-all, and a great deal of effort must be made to maintain weight loss, change bad eating behaviors, and make sure that dietary and nutritional needs are being met.

There are several immediate and long-term risks associated with any type of weight loss surgery. These include:

* Bleeding
* Reaction to anesthesia or subsequent medications
* Dehiscence (the rupture of a surgical wound)
* Deep vein thrombosis (blood clots)
* Infections
* Ulcers
* Stenosis (abnormal narrowing of blood vessels)
* Pulmonary problems
* Injury to or removal of the spleen (due to bleeding)

While the occurrence of many of these problems are rare, it is important to know that they are possible with anyone having surgery, and to know what effects they can have.

There are 2 types of weight loss surgeries, restrictive and malabsorptive.

* Restrictive procedures force the patient to decrease food consumption. These procedures do not disrupt the regular digestive process.
* Malabsorptive procedures cause food to be inadequately digested so that it is eliminated in the stool. These procedures do interrupt the regular digestive process, and can lead to conditions such as anemia and malnutrition if great care is not taken to ensure nutritional maintenance post-surgery.

While weight loss surgery can help those who are morbidly obese and have struggled to lose weight for a long time lost the excess weight, it should not be seen as a magic pill. The surgeries will help patients lose a lot of weight, but it is still up to the patient to change eating behavior, exercise regularly, and be committed to a new lifestyle for the rest of his or her life.

Wayne Mcgregor has a degree in nutrition and dietetics, a diploma in fitness training, and a wealth of experience in helping people to lose weight and build muscle. His website provides hundreds of free weight loss articles, sample diets, tools and charts of calorie content of different foods.

http://www.weightlossforall.com/surgery-life-after-x.htm

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