| What Is Yo-Yo Dieting? | | | | were found to have the lowest killer cell rating. |
| Yo-yo dieting is a term that is becoming all too | | | | Killer cells are the cells in your immune system |
| common among those seeking to lose weight | | | | that are responsible for combating viruses and |
| nowadays. Yo-yo dieting refers to the act of | | | | possibly even cancer. Even women that had been |
| repeatedly getting on and off of a diet, which is | | | | on a yo-yo diet at least twice showed noticeable |
| usually a result of a diet that is too extreme and | | | | damage to their immune systems. |
| therefore cannot successfully be maintained for | | | | How Yo-Yo Dieting Can Kill You |
| any prolonged period of time. Once one realizes | | | | Secondly, and even more importantly, is the |
| that they jumped headlong into a diet that is too | | | | elevated risk of heart disease, heart attack, and |
| exclusive too soon that's when they bail and begin | | | | stroke among yo-yo dieters and post-menopausal |
| to gain the weight back. Unfortunately, the body | | | | women especially. Numerous cardiologists have |
| is often deprived of calories, thus, upon failing the | | | | found that even those that are currently thin and |
| diet, immediately stores this influx of calories as | | | | achieved through aggressive yo-yo dieting are |
| fat. In actuality, The body believes it is starving | | | | just as prone to restricted blood flow to the |
| and, in response, greatly slows down its | | | | heart as women that are heavy and have yo-yo |
| metabolism in order to conserve what it sees as | | | | dieted in the past. This restricted blood flow could |
| its last bit of valuable energy. Therefore, when | | | | be an indication of blockages in the coronary |
| the regular eating patterns resume, the body and | | | | arteries, which ultimately results in heart attack or |
| its slowed metabolic rate can't utilize all the | | | | stroke. Now, just because you are thin and |
| calories at once and therefore store most of | | | | haven't had to diet in 5 years, your cardiovascular |
| them as fat. The logistics of why one should | | | | system has still taken a beating and you could |
| avoid yo-yo dieting are pretty simple, but for | | | | pay for it with your life. So, if you plan on dieting, |
| some, being told that something is detrimental to | | | | really plan it and plan it well. Dieting is similar to |
| your health is not enough, they need proof. | | | | owning a pet. Those that buy pets not fully |
| How Yo-Yo Dieting Can Make You Sick | | | | understanding the amount of responsibility are |
| In 2004, 114 overweight women over the age of | | | | often times overwhelmed or don't care enough to |
| 50 were questioned about their weight history in a | | | | properly care for the animal. In other words, the |
| study conducted by Dr. Cornelia M. Ulrich of the | | | | idea of losing weight may sound great, but you |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in | | | | really need to think this through before |
| Seattle. Part of the study was used to help | | | | permanent damage is incurred. A healthy weight |
| quantify the amount of damage one does to their | | | | loss regimen requires a proper balance of |
| immune system when on a yo-yo diet. According | | | | nutrients, fewer calories, but not deprivation, and, |
| to the study, the women that had dieted and | | | | of course, regular exercise. |
| then failed at least 5 times in the past 20 years | | | | |