Diet Safety

Diet safety is a subject that most of today's "fad diets" just won't broach.

When undertaking any type of diet, it is extremely important to understand the impact that the diet is having on your body. Yes, you may indeed be losing weight. But are you depriving yourself of vital nutrients that your body needs in order to function properly? Are you slowing your metabolism down? Are you raising your cholesterol or blood pressure? Are you getting dehydrated? Are you feeling fatigued? Are you left feeling starving all day?

Here are some diet safety tips that you should take into consideration when you choose a diet program to follow:

1. Choose a diet that does not force you to eliminate or drastically reduce any one type of nutrient. The most prominent example of this is a low-carbohydrate diet. Carbohydrates are required by your body in order to function properly. You will be inflicting harm on yourself by severely restricting your carbohydrate intake. Though the adverse impact may not manifest itself in the first two weeks of the diet, you are already setting yourself up for a failed diet experiment by undertaking such an unsustainable long-term regimen.

2. Choose a diet that results in weight loss at a steady pace. A few pounds per week is okay. But if you are losing more than one pound a day then you may need to modify your diet plan. Losing weight that rapidly is not safe for your body. It is typical that on all diets you will lose a lot of weight initially and then the weight loss will taper off.

3. Choose a diet that leaves you feeling satisfied throughout the day. Starvation does not equate to healthy and safe weight loss. Sure, starvation can lead to weight loss. But starvation has a lot of other side effects, physiologically as well as psychologically. Make sure that whatever diet you eat allows you to feel satisfied, not stuffed. You cannot ever hope to lose weight if you stuff your stomach with more food that your body can consume efficiently.

4. Don't eat within three hours before going to bed. What does this have to do with diet safety? Just imagine going to sleep knowing that the food you ate last night is still sitting in your stomach not fully digested by the time you wake up in the morning. Do you really want that? The last thing you need is for your body to be busy digesting food over a six to eight hour period at night. Doing so is sure to cause the unused food to be stored as fat, since your body doesn't exactly need those calories to convert to energy while you sleep.

5. Any diet regimen that calls upon you to deviate from the "common sense" principles that we have been taught about eating nutritious food, avoiding sugars and empty calories, is a diet that you should avoid. The conventional wisdom of eating fiber, fruits, vegetables, drinking lots of water, and getting exercise, are in fact the inevitable truth. Many fad diets are shortcuts that do induce rapid weight loss, but are not necessarily safe and therefore not sustainable for long-term weight loss.

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