Rapid Weight Loss - Why Not!

The amazing miracle weight loss system that can make you lose 10 pounds in 10 days no matter what you eat! Eat whatever you want, eat more than you want, eat double what you want, and still lose weight without working out! Drop one pant size in a day, but beware because this might work so well you'll pop out of existence! If these advertising claims are true then rapid weight loss is a miracle reality of the modern world, requiring no effort on the dieter's part. Baloney! Americans still spend upwards of $40 billion on fad products that mostly don't work. Failure doesn't stop new diets from springing up out of the wood work, or people from trying them. Remember Joe Frazier's diet, chew the food but spit it out? He boasted it made him full and gave him all the nutrients without the fat. See, mimes had the secret to weight loss all the time. Then we have the pills, creams, drinks and formulas that miraculously remove weight. Remember Fen-Fen? The people who developed heart conditions sure do.Studies show that Very Low Calorie Diets, or VLCDs, work. People heard this and now try them at home. The issue is that's not how VLCDs were designed. When people are so much overweight it becomes a health problem, VLCDs were made to come to the rescue. These diets often have people eat half or less of their daily caloric intake. They're intended to be implemented in medically supervised closed settings, where people can't cheat. When used outside of a closed setting, often a clinic called a “fat farm,” these diets can be harmful to the dieters health and will generally not work because of binge eating after a period of partial starvation.

Rapid weight loss causes a number of health problems. Painful Gallstones develop in up to 25% of people who lose large amounts of weight over a few months. Ignorant dieters can often become dehydrated because they don't realize a large portion of the water people need to drink comes from foods. It's easy to compensate for this by drinking more water. Malnutrition can develop from not eating enough protein over a long period of time. The body can even become unable to process protein, which leads to serious illness and even death. Professionals should be involved during any process of rapid weight loss.