These days, many people are obsessed with their weight. Many people want to lose weight. Some even want to gain weight. Whatever the situation, very many people are dissatisfied with their weight, and they resort to drastic and even potentially deadly measures to lose or gain weight. These dangerous measures often come in the form of fad diets and diet pills.
One known measure that is dangerous is starvation. A lot of people who struggle with weight loss resort to starving themselves. They would go days not eating and just drink water if anything. Most times, they cave in to their cravings and they wind up not only eating, but eating the very things that are not healthy. Not only that, they have a slower metabolism, which results in not only gaining all of the lost weight back, but you gain even more unwanted fat.
Some cases are even worse. The people that “beat” their cravings develop diseases, or sometimes they pass out, and in the worst cases they die. This is all because they try to go to the one extreme to compensate for the other extreme. Neither extreme is healthy.
A lot of fad diets promise wild results, like losing 14 pounds in two weeks. A lot of times, the weight lost is water weight. You may also lose some muscle mass as well leaving you lighter, but ultimately weaker. Losing that much weight at one time is unhealthy as well.
Another concern is the diet pills. A lot of them are appetite suppressants or “fat blockers.” Many pills, or medications tend to have side effects which can outweigh the benefits of the pills.
Then there are the people who have lost all the weight, but they have developed a “diet addiction.” They end up losing even more weight to the point where they look like merely skin and bones. They are often known as anorexics. Bulimics are also a danger to themselves due to them vomiting what they eat. The acid from throwing up tends to erode their teeth.
A lot of it comes from insecurity and low self esteem, and also lack of patience. A lot of people want results almost immediately, and they can not wait the usual required amount of time for the results. A lot of people do not like what they see in the mirror and they want very badly to resemble what they see in the media.
Dangerous dieting is a growing phenomenon. A lot of people are unhealthy due to the unhealthy approaches to getting healthy and fit. Sadly, even if they do get skinny, they actually are more unfit than when they were overweight. The sad thing about dangerous dieting is that the person who practices it is deprived of his vital nutrients which are needed for effective fitness.