| The more often you diet, the harder for you to | | | | 2. Yo-yo dieting usually shifts weight from your |
| lose weight. Not only that, but there's a danger to | | | | hips and thighs to your stomach, where it is more |
| on-again-off-again dieting. Losing weight quickly, | | | | dangerous to your health. A fat stomach or waist |
| then gaining it right back, may increase your risk | | | | is linked to an increased risk of stroke in men and |
| of sudden death from heart disease. Men who | | | | higher rates of heart failures in both genders. |
| showed the greatest up-and-down weight swings | | | | 3. Yo-yo dieting actually may increase you desire |
| also had the highest risk of sudden death from | | | | of fatty foods. Since fatty foods are less healthy |
| coronary heart disease. | | | | for us, an increased desire for fats may have |
| Weight loss and weight gain, known as weight | | | | negative health consequences. |
| cycle or yo-yo dieting, is a way of life for many | | | | 4. Yo-yo dieting may increase your body's |
| people. However, researchers are discovering that | | | | proportion of fat to lean tissue. When people lose |
| yo-yo dieting maybe more harmful than not losing | | | | a lot of weight by dieting - especially on crash |
| weight at all. Now here are some of the pitfalls of | | | | diets or low protein diets - they lose muscle tissue |
| yo-yo dieting: | | | | along with the fat. However, when they regain |
| 1. It my slow your body's metabolism and make it | | | | the weight, the addition usually comes back as |
| more difficult for you to lose the weight again. | | | | fat, not as muscle. This is a good reason to |
| Studies have revealed that losing and regaining | | | | combine diet with exercise - exercise will help you |
| weight greatly increases food efficiency. Food | | | | to lose fat and not muscle so you'll be less likely |
| efficiency is defined as how much weight is gained | | | | to gain the weight back. |
| compared to the amount of calories that are | | | | Yo-yo dieting strains your body and increases you |
| consumed. Only is someone was facing starvation | | | | risk of sudden death from heart disease. But for |
| would this natural defense mechanism be helpful. | | | | many people, a permanent weight reduction is a |
| Under normal circumstances, increased food | | | | good thing. the point is to keep the weight off |
| efficiency simply makes dieting more difficult. If | | | | once you lose it. That may mean eating about a |
| your diet is successful and you do lose weight, | | | | quarter less calories from now on - a permanent |
| you'll have to eat a lot less from now on than | | | | diet, instead of a yo-yo diet. |
| you're used to eating. | | | | |