It is commonly seen that people go on diet with
the objective of losing some weight and keeping themselves fit and fine.
Usually, it is more important for these people to lose weight and attain a
decided weight than to bring about fitness and good health. With this aim in
mind, they buy the latest fad diets in the market for example, cookie diet, in
order to acquire their coveted weight and fitness. These diets are easily
available in the market and there have been reports of them benefitting a lot
of people. But it is sad to know that these people who are blind in the whim of
losing weight are quick to ignore the disadvantages of dieting. Sometimes it is
mere negligence while on other occasions it is because of lack of knowledge.
Experts say that it should be kept in mind while dieting that it is more
important to lose the excessive fat rather than losing weight in general.
Losing weight during a diet can also be because of loss of water from the body.
Fluids or water form a very important part of our body and an essential
constituent of cells and tissues . And hence one need to be cautious of what he
is eating in diet so that the body does not suffer from scarcity of fluids .If
dieting causes problems in the metabolism mechanisms of the body then, the
person will have to suffer a lot because it is very important to keep this
mechanism running smoothly.
When on diet we sometimes eliminate some such substances from our list of food
items which is essential for our health. This leads to bad consequences in the
form of deficiency of nutrients and disturbed metabolism .The body is short of
required nutrients and therefore starts functioning improperly. During dieting,
the body was going through deficiency of fats. When the person starts eating normally
again, he has a tendency to eat much and under the influence of this he eats a
lot and out of this excessively eaten food, a lot is converted into fat because
all these days the body faced a scarcity of it. Hence all this fat is further
added to his body and weight is gained once again which renders the efforts put
in dieting futile.
A very important fact about dieting is that it yields very temporary results.
When on diet a person will eat less but he will develop a craving for luring
food items and will gorge on them once the period of dieting is over .This
leads to the person gaining weight all over again and in some cases gains more
weight than what he had before. Hence dieting is undoubtedly a very short lived
solution to obesity. Sighting this drawback of dieting, medical professionals
and doctors do not suggest dieting to needy people. Along with putting a limit
to one's intake of calories, physical exercises should also be performed in
order to obtain positive results.
Studies have shown that it is physically impossible and extremely unhealthy to
lose more than 900 grams in a week's time. If we lose and gain weight
frequently, our health will be badly affected and the possibility of having
heart diseases, strokes, diabetes and disturbed immune systems will rise and many
other health risks will be posed. Hence through cookie diet one should not aim at
losing as much weight as possible but to cut down on the intake of fats in a
healthy manner. One should be aware of the fact that more than just losing
weight it is more important that the weight is lost in a healthy way. We need
to be careful that we do not suffer from the loss of vital nutrients and harm
the body. Also, the level of fluids in the body should not decrease and no harm
should be caused to the metabolism mechanisms of the body.
