Most diets turn out to be effective and some people end up gaining more weight than they lost. Dieting also poses several risks to your health.
Here are five reasons why dieting is harmful to your health.
1. Short term thinking does not work
Many diets are based on the strict cutting of calories, food limitation or even extreme changing of lifestyle thus making people lose a lot of weight on these diets. The biggest problem is if you won't be able to maintain the diet for a long period of time, the rebound effect can be worse than the diet, thus dieting lacks important nutrients and is hard to keep up with.
2. Increased blood pressure
Losing weight can lower one's blood pressure but crash diets can be harmful to your health. The repeated long-term slashing of calories can lead to heart diseases and high blood pressure. Once you try to diet the abrupt changes will affect your blood pressure.
3. Increases chances of diabetes
Dieting which leads to weight fluctuation has been linked to an increased risk of diabetes.
4. Dieting can lead to an eating disorder
Staying hungry for a long time and wanting to lose weight can lead to binging, and this can create a negative self-image, obsession with food and depression.
5. Dieting makes you hungry
Dieting makes you feel hungry due to extreme calorie restrictions. When dieting, your fat cells release the hormone leptin that will make you feel full. As you lose fat every day, your body does not release much leptin thus making your body need more food. This is why when dieting you feel tired and often end up heavier.