- Serious and deliberate limitation of the amount of energy consumed by food (calorie intake). For example, it could be following a popular diet, or just counting calories and setting strict limits.
- Limit the variety of foods and eat the same type:
- low carbohydrate diets: protein diet, Atkins diet;
- low fat diets;
- juice diets.
- Irregular meals:
- hourly diet;
- 5: 2 diet (five days a week we usually eat and two days a week - we put ourselves at a significant limit in food);
- skipping meals;
- "Fasting days", i. e. refusing to eat on certain days.
Who is on the diet?
Diets are common and common. It is believed that about half of women of normal weight have tried dieting. One study found that almost 70% of 15-year-old girls are on a diet and 8% follow a very strict diet. Another study found that about 70% of women and 45% of diets are overweight and do not need to follow any diets.
Before dieting there is dissatisfaction with your body and desire to lose weight.
A study in the UK found that two-thirds of 14-15 year old girls and half of 12-13 year old girls are trying to lose a few pounds. Because of the stress of this, about a quarter of young girls skip at least one meal a day.
Dietary risks
Diets increase the risk of eating disorders. Scientists have found that if adolescent girls eat a moderate diet, their risk of developing an eating disorder increases by five, and they have a strict diet - eighteen years.
Frequent, strict diets contribute to excess weight. 95% of those who follow a diet to lose weight in the next two years gain more than they lost as a result of the diet. This happens because people severely restrict the number of calories and variety of dishes during the diet, and are constantly hungry. Maybe for a short time, diets can ignore hunger, but after long diets, appetite and overeating become more pronounced. As a result, he feels guilt and failure, which can increase dissatisfaction with you and your body. Some people live a similar cycle of diets for the rest of their lives - that is, the diet takes up a certain amount of their time and energy each day.
In addition, diets have been found to reduce metabolism - the rate of calorie burning slows down.
The normal metabolic rate is restored some time after the person returns to a healthy and adequate diet.
A strict diet affects mental and physical health. Bad breath, fatigue, bloating, headaches and cramps, constipation, sleep disturbances, and possibly bone destruction may appear.
Diets can alter the body's natural responses to food, needs and misery. A person will cease hunger and satiety, he may stop distinguishing his emotional needs from hunger.
Why do we go on diets?
Many people of normal weight consider themselves overweight and want to lose weight through diet. Also, many overweight people are trying to lose those extra pounds and believe that diet will help them with this.
It is known that about ⅓ of the world's population is overweight, but about twice as many people are trying to lose weight.
They are on a diet out of desire to be slim. There are many reasons for slim cultivation in the world, and one of them is the equally common fear of gaining fat. It has been suggested that primary school students may already have that fear. For some reason, in our society, wholeness is considered a shame and a criticism.
Through advertising, companies focused on everything related to diets (diets, books, groceries and other items) support the desire to go on a diet. Because we are in a highly profitable industry, the diet industry is naturally optimistic about diets. In fact, it has been found that half of those on a diet gain weight as a result - few are able to maintain the weight lost as a result of the diet for five years.
The success of a strict diet depends on many physical and mental factors, and in obesity, it is very ineffective for weight loss.