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Do Diets Really Just Make You Fatter?
Dieting and its dangers
Dieting sounds like a good idea, but it often turns out bad. This happens mainly because while dieting, our body has certain restrictions that end when the diet has been accomplished.
Therefore, once back to our normal eating habits, we feel the need to eat even more than before. So, whenever you consider dieting, make sure you make it right, otherwise, it will all prove only a waste of time and money.
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Dieting
Dieting can pretty fast become an obsession, as shown by today's individuals who, influenced by everything that the media is promoting, want, at all costs, to be fit and slim.
Furthermore, this tends to apply especially to women whose mothers dieted at some point, in their life.
The diet industry
When dieting, not only does the individual lose weight, but he or she is at risk of losing also a large amount of money. The diet industry generates high income every year, taking advantage of people's obsession to look fit.
However, it often happens that these diets who are supposed to work wonders end up by making people lose only money and no kilos whatsoever.
Dieting and its results
As shocking as it may seem, diets are not the key to a forever slim body.
Research has shown that most of the people, who have dieted at some point in their life, end up by regaining the initial weight or even more than they had when they started the diet.
Dieting and its dangers
Dieting sounds like a good idea, but it often turns out bad. This happens mainly because while dieting, our body has certain restrictions that end when the diet has been accomplished.
Therefore, once back to our normal eating habits, we feel the need to eat even more than before. So, whenever you consider dieting, make sure you make it right, otherwise, it will all prove only a waste of time and money.
Alternatives to dieting
When dieting has let you down, you might want to consider focusing on other ways to get healthier, rather than just fit.
Among the different alternatives to dieting, why not trying to learn how to make healthier choices when it comes to your eating habits or to exercise regularly? And remember, slim is not always better: you might feel more self-confident once you have accepted yourself as you truly are and stopped chasing a certain weight that does not define you as a person.
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Detox and its limitations
Detox diets are generally short-term dietary interventions designed to eliminate toxins from your body.
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Most Common Ways to Detox
Most detox diets involve at least one of the following:
- Fasting for 1–3 days.
- Drinking fresh fruit and vegetable juices, smoothies, water, and tea.
- Drinking only specific liquids, such as salted water or lemon juice.
- Eliminating foods high in heavy metals, contaminants, and allergens.
- Taking supplements or herbs.
- Avoiding all allergenic foods, then slowly reintroducing them.
- Using laxatives, colon cleanses, or enemas.
- Exercising regularly.
- Completely eliminating alcohol, coffee, cigarettes, and refined sugar.
Which Toxins Are Eliminated
Detox diets rarely identify the specific toxins they aim to remove. The mechanisms by which they work are also unclear.
There is little to no evidence that detox diets remove any toxins from your body.
However, your body can clear itself of most toxins through the liver, feces, urine, and sweat.
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Different Outcomes
We're all different. If we are all on the same weight-loss diet, there will be various outcomes. Some people will lose a lot, some will lose a little, and a few will even gain weight.
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Genetics And Nutrition
Scientists are continually finding links between genetics and nutrition. Many of us have a gene called FTO that makes us more likely to be overweight. You can get a genetic test to tell which variant of the FTO gene you happen to have.
However, scientists who study the genetics of nutrition think it’s premature to base nutritional advice on your DNA. That FTO gene, for example, has only been shown to make a few pounds’ difference in body weight.
Nutritional Genetic Testing
The coded messages of your DNA are billions of letters (nucleotides) long. Personalized nutrition companies only care about a few of your DNA letters and can tell you which "variant" you have at each of those locations (known as SNPs) along your DNA strands.
Genetic testing companies can learn what SNP variants you have by supplying them with a vial of spit.
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Eat Plenty of Protein at Every Meal
Eating food increases your metabolism for a while because extra calories are required to process your meal. This is called the thermic effect of food (TEF).
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Drink More Cold Water
Drinking water may speed up your metabolism for about an hour. This calorie-burning effect may be even greater if you drink cold water, as your body uses energy to heat it.
Drinking water can also help you fill up and help you eat less, especially if you drink it half an hour before you eat.
Do a High-Intensity Workout
High-intensity interval training (HIIT) involves short, intense bursts of activity and help you burn more fat by increasing your metabolic rate.
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