The Dangers of Diet 4 methods...

The miraculous methods to lose weight seem attractive, but they are often unhealthy. Here are dangers that await you if you give in to their promises...


You may suffer convulsions and fainting.

Canadians are increasingly using colonic irrigation to lose weight. Although Lisa Keith, specializing in colon hydrotherapy, recognize that colonic irrigation does not lose weight permanently, it notes that many of his clients hope to release gas and bloating and feel "lighter" .

According to Dr. David Armstrong, a gastroenterologist and associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine at McMaster University, the process can be extremely painful. We risk losing electrolytes and consequently suffer from convulsions and fainting people with a history of heart disease or kidney disease and those taking drugs against hypertension even run the risk of die.


You could increase your bad cholesterol.

Diets rich in saturated fat (up to 26% of calories in the Atkins diet against the 10% or less than experts recommend) are not good for health because they raise the bad cholesterol (LDL). It is true that in its latest version, the Atkins diet focuses on lean poultry and
seafood, but the fact remains that many people undertake it in order to eat butter and bacon will .



You may suffer complications.

Bariatric surgery is generally effective for losing weight. But according to the results of a large study conducted at the University of New York, the complication rate stood at 9% for gastroplasty and 24% for gastric bypass. The observed effects were sometimes minor, such as fever, dehydration, nausea and vomiting, sometimes serious, including infections, bleeding and accidents requiring further intervention.


You could increase your risk of metabolic syndrome.

If you take artificial sweeteners in order to lose weight, you will not succeed. In a study whose results were published in the August 2008 issue of the journal Obesity, it was observed that patients of normal weight who drank more than 21 drinks diet sweetened with aspartame per week were two times more likely to be overweight than those who did not sweeteners. Sharon Fowler, one of the authors of the study and assistant professor of clinical epidemiology in the Health Science Center of the University of Texas at San Antonio, added: "It has been observed in two large studies that daily ingestion of diet soda was associated with an increased risk of metabolic syndrome [group of symptoms related to heart disease and diabetes]. "

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