Starvation Diet - Not the Answer and Why

Some people have advocated the use of starvation diets as the only true way that weight loss or more specifically fat loss can be achieved sustainable. Many health practitioners who have tried other means of dieting have found success with the starvation diet principle and will readily recommend it to many of their clients. We are however of the opinion that the Starvation Diet is one of the most extreme types of diets out there and is by no means a simply solution for weight loss. Starvation diets can only be recommended in very few situations after proper diagnosis and medical opinions are sought. It cannot be considered a real slimming diet as it is too radical.

The standard issue starvation diet is to basically where you take your normal daily intake of food and you half it. Depending on what stage you are in the diet you will have reduce your calorie intake by certain percentages. Your reduction in food should be accompanied with an increase in your daily consumption of water to try take away the hunger pangs that will develop. Your consumption of carbohydrates should be reduced to make way for an increase in fibrous food stuff like high fiber vegetables and fruits. Your intake of protein should remain the same in proportion to the diet that you had previously as should your intake of fat. The Starvation Diet should not be confused with Fasting which isn’t a diet but rather more a cleansing procedure.

The whole principle of this diet is a severe reduction in the number of calories so your body will have to turn inwards to get nutrients from its fat and muscle stores to provide enough energy for survival. Unlike other types calorie reduction diets the starvation diet is quite radical and really does push the human limit of what is possible. Unlike other diets too, exercise is optional. In the first weeks of the diet exercise is even not recommended as the energy limitation of the diet will make exercising very hard and even slightly too taxing for the body to handle.

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