Is Fast Weight Loss Healthy or Harmful?

"Any diet or situation that reduces energy intake for long enough will result in weight loss." says an US registered dietitian, Helen Storey. "However, reviewing the literature will alert us to the knowledge that about 95% of people who lose weight will regain it over the next five years."

The U.S. National Weight Control Registry have found that only a fifth of the losers sustain a loss of 10% of their body weight for a year or more.



How much you lose vs what you lose

Second, what more important is not about how much weight you lose but WHAT you lose and is about your BODY COMPOSITION which refers to the amount of relative fat to muscles you have in your body.

"When you add lean body mass and cut down on fat weight you are actually changing the composition of your body". Says Arnold Schwarzenegger in his Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding.

The Biggest Loser's goal is just losing WEIGHT, not losing FAT weight, meaning doing anything to make the figures down on the scales, it can be dangerous. By not knowing what you really lose, you can become a skinny "obese" person who is still holding a lot of fat inside your body after losing a lot of muscles and water along with the fat.

The danger of fast weight loss

Finally, The Biggest Loser's fast weight loss is devastating to your health. It
reduces lean muscle mass
slows metabolism
weakens the heart
makes you more susceptible to illness and disease
makes you regain more weight
causes psychological problems In conclusion, it is the wrong way to lose weight fast like what The Biggest Loser do, which dose more harm than good. The price paid for the weight you lose can be your health. You can lose a lot of muscles along with the fat. In addition, it can make you gain the weight back or more. Successful weight loss is sustainable fat loss and judged on body composition.

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