You’ve heard of all these amazing miracle rapid weight loss diets that can make you lose 10 pounds in 10 days no matter what you eat! Eat as much as you want, more than you want, 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 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.

Hogwash! But even though they mostly aren’t true, Americans spend over 40 billion dollars a year on diet pills, weight loss programs and products that simply don’t work. That doesn’t stop people from coming up with all sorts of crazy diets and weight loss products. Celebrity weight loss diets flood the magazine stands and play a crucial role.

Remember Beyonce’s starvation “master cleanse” diet? ? It includes taking in nothing but lemon juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper and water. Seriously! It also claimed to get rid of years of built up toxins in your system. Who would have thought that maple syrup can destroy toxin. So the next time a poisonous snake bites someone have them eat some pancakes.

Then there are the many claims of magic pills, creams, and diet supplements that guarantee to burn fat without exercise, guaranteed. That wasn’t a typo; they mention the word guarantee so often it starts to lose meaning. And when the advertising don’t mention exactly what is involved in the “guarantee” it doesn’t have any meaning. It’s designed to make people think that the product works. It’s simply a way of making people think the product works.

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 home use to drop a few pounds. That’s a problem because of their nature. An extreme diet such as VLCD is designed for seriously overweight people.

These diets often have people eat half or less of their daily caloric intake. They’re designed to be implemented in medically supervised closed settings, where people can’t cheat. When used outside of a closed setting, often weight loss clinics called a “fat farm,” these extreme weight loss diets can be dangerous to the dieter’s health and will generally not work because of binge eating after a period of partial starvation.

The body can have a number of problems during rapid weight loss. Painful Gallstones develop in up to 25% of people who lose large amounts of weight over a few months. Careless 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.

Extreme weight loss diets are a great idea. But it’s not for most people, and should be administered and supervised by qualified medical professionals.

2 Responses to “Rapid Weight Loss Diets Exposed – Harmful or Helpful”

1. Acai Cleanse says:

   February 26, 2009 at 1:49

   Well a rapid weight loss might get you heard as losing one pant mass daily can surely be harmful…never heard of loosing so many in 24 hours…amazing to hear about though…

   nice post anyways!!!!
   
2. AcaiBerry says:

   March 5, 2009 at 1:49

   Too much weight loss will surely effect your health..you might loosen your skin..beaware of such promises