Is Rapid Weight Loss Good Or Bad?

The amazing miracle weight loss system that can make you lose 10 pounds in 10 days no matter what you eat! Eat as much as you want, eat more than you want, eat double what you want, and still lose weight with no exercise! Drop one pant size in a day, but beware because this might work so well you'll pop out of reality! If these advertising claims are true then rapid weight loss is a miracle solution of the modern world, requiring no effort on the dieter's part.

Baloney! But even though they mostly aren't true, Americans pay over 40 billion dollars a year on pills, programs and weight loss products that simply don't work. That doesn't stop people from coming up with all sorts of crazy diets and weight loss products. Remember Beyonce's starvation “master cleanse” diet? It consisted of taking in nothing but lemon juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper and water. Seriously! It also supposedly cleans the system from years of built up toxins. Who knew, maple syrup dissolves toxins. Next time a poisonous snake bites someone have them eat some pancakes. Then we have the pills, creams, drinks and formulas that miraculously remove weight. Remember Fen-Fen? The people who developed heart conditions sure do.

Another diet is the VLCD or Very Low Calorie Diet. They work, and studies prove it. The problem is they are often sold to people for personal use to drop a few pounds. That's a problem because of their nature. VLCD's are extreme diets originally created for seriously overweight people. These diets are designed to be used under medical supervision in a closed setting where people can't go off the diet. When used outside those parameters people tend to cheat, and what's worse they can incur serious health concerns.

Rapid weight loss causes a number of health problems. Gallstones, dehydration, malnutrition and even protein poisoning can incur as a result of the severe caloric starvation involved in VLCDs.

Rapid weight loss is a great idea. But it's not for most people, and should be administered and supervised by qualified medical professionals.

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