- Strict and intentional restriction of energy intake through food (calorie intake). For example, it could be sticking to a specific diet, or just counting calories and setting strict limits.
- Restricting the types of food and eating the same type:
- low-carbohydrate diets: protein diet, Atkins diet;
- fatty diet;
- juice diets.
- Malnutrition:
- hourly diet;
- diet 5: 2 (five days a week we eat normally and two days a week - we limit ourselves significantly to food);
- refusal to eat;
- "Days of Fasting, " p. a. Refuse to eat on certain days.
Who is on the diet?
Diet is common and popular. It is estimated that about half of women of normal weight have tried a diet. According to one study, almost 70% of 15-year-old girls are on a diet, and 8% of them are on a very strict diet. Another study found that about 70% of women and 45% of dieters are not overweight and do not need to follow a diet.
Your diet will be preceded by dissatisfaction and a desire to lose weight.
A British study found that two-thirds of girls aged 14-15 and half of girls aged 12-13 wanted to lose a few pounds. As a result of the stress, a quarter of young girls refused to eat at least one meal a day.
Dietary risk
Diets increase the risk of eating disorders. Researchers have found that teenage girls are five times more likely to have an eating disorder than those on an average diet, and eighteen times more likely to be on a strict diet.
Frequent, strict diet contributes to excess weight. 95% of those who follow a diet for weight loss gain more in the next two years than they lose as a result of the diet. This is due to the fact that during the diet, people limit the number of calories and the type of food, and constantly go hungry. Those who follow a short-term diet may ignore hunger, but after a long diet, appetite may increase and overeating may occur. This, in turn, leads to feelings of guilt and failure, which intensifies the dissatisfaction of yourself and your body. Some people live this life cycle for the rest of their lives - in other words, the diet takes up a certain amount of time and energy every day.
In addition, diets have been shown to slow down the metabolism - slowing down the burning of calories.
Normal metabolic rate is restored shortly after returning to a healthy and adequate diet.
A strict diet affects mental and physical health. Unpleasant odors, fatigue, overeating, headaches and cramps, constipation, sleep disturbances and possible bone damage can occur.
Diet can alter the body's natural responses to food, needs and appetite. A person stops hunger and satiety, he can stop depriving his emotional needs of hunger.
Why are we on a diet?
Many people who are overweight consider themselves overweight and want to lose weight by dieting. Also, many people who want to lose weight want to lose weight and believe that diet will help them.
It is known that about ⅓ part of the world's population is overweight, but about twice as many people want to lose weight.
They go on a diet to lose weight. There are many reasons for global weight loss, one of which is the fear of obesity. It was found that such fears can also occur in primary school students. For some reason in our society completeness is seen as something shameful and condemned.
The desire to go on a diet through advertising is supported by companies that focus on everything related to diet in people (diets, books, food and other goods). Since we are in a very lucrative industry, the diet industry has an unnaturally optimistic view of diet. In fact, it has been found that half of dieters gain weight as a result - some of them can maintain the weight they lost as a result of the diet for five years.
The success of a strict diet depends on many physical and mental factors, and is not very effective for weight loss in obesity.