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All these miracles have a common aspect, their extremely low calorie content.
The Magic Diets, they are clear, whatever happens, they must be very hypocaloric to cause accelerated weight loss.
From the outset, they contradict a basic principle in the field of health: losing weight healthily is doing it little by little, among other things.
Marketing runs on the name and the scientific principles that they take and transform into pure commercial “joke” or that are simply invented. Below I detail them by categorizing them.
Hypocaloric diets with nutritional imbalance
- “Take half”, eat half and lose weight… Logical, and in the long term it leads to numerous nutrient deficits. At the very least it would be necessary to supplement.
- “Main victory”. 7 days for 4-5Kg of weight loss based on salads and very low in calories. The only thing the actress advises is not to do it during menstruation. Luckily he advises something on such a little diet Diet.
- “Mayo Clinic”. Nothing to do with the prestigious North American clinic. Only 600-800 Kcal, with the total exclusion of dairy products and a high consumption of eggs (4 or 6 per day). It can cause a great deficit of calcium among other things.
- “Gourmet”. Based on exquisite products and a high price. He claims to lose up to 4 Kg in a week …
- “The Waerland cure”. It proposes a caloric consumption that does not reach 600 calories, in which for a few days only spring water, celery, potatoes, flax seeds and vegetables are eaten.
- And the most extreme diet: “Zero diet”. Without eating anything. In medicine, deaths in prolonged fasts caused by weakening of the heart muscle are described. Needless to comment …
These diets will give a rebound effect with an increase in fat and a decrease in muscle mass, not meeting the minimum needs of a multitude of nutrients.
On the other hand, you have to know that if calories are lowered a lot, the body slows down the metabolism, with which the expected loss is not achieved, we become energy savers.
In consequence, lactose intolerance, reactive hypoglycemia, arrhythmias, hair loss, nail weakness, nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, psychological disorders …
Dissociative Diets
His bizarre theory is that; foods are fattening when combined in certain ways.
This data is SCIENTIFICALLY FALSE, the science of nutrition is tremendously complex, so that the authors of these magic potions, many times take certain scientific knowledge that they use as a headline, to make an impression, without contextualizing its meaning, and turning it into a simple claim, introducing said scientific concepts in a sea of nonsense, which revolve around said concept, which may be in fashion at that sociocultural moment.
No body system works independently and there is no independent digestion for each nutrient, which after all is what these crappy remedies claim to make.
- “Shelton”. Dairy breakfast, meat lunch and vegetable dinner.
- “Antoine”. For example, on Mondays only meat. Thus, each day corresponds to a food group. A day without carbohydrate, or without fiber … what nonsense.
- “From the Israeli army.” Like the previous one but every two days. What we can be sure of is that it was not designed by any military man who wanted his soldiers in perfect health.
- “Montignac”. Do not mix fat and carbohydrate, eliminating foods that contain them. The question is logical: why? It is a great dangerous nonsense. For example, prohibit bread, potatoes, pasta, rice.
We are going to dismantle a very frequent myth that is repeated in consultation and is related to this druid potion, because it consists of this: consumption of fruit alone, if it is consumed with fat or protein, it is not digested … Heat and humidity lose their vitamins and alter protein metabolism.
Consuming fruit at the end of meals is considered a poison, but as they take away from one the habit of eating fruit after lunch and dinner, we are going to do well. What will happen then to the people who do not consume it the rest of the day? We all know the difficulty we have in taking them at other times.
This diet is one of the most familiar to us since it achieved high fame thanks to the promotion of the famous businessman who promoted it.
- “The anti-diet.” Carbohydrate and protein separately. It is a veritable swarm of lies. It seems as if in the design the marketing strategy had been precisely that, managing to contradict everything demonstrated so far and invent the most bizarre things trying to curl the loop in laziness.
For example: if you are hungry, only consume fruit 3 hours after lunch or 3 hours after dinner, avoid vinegar or only consume whole wheat bread are some of the bullshit it promotes.
- La “by Rafaella Carrá”. Very picturesque, like the singer, for example: everything eaten before 8 in the morning does not make you fat. That is, you can eat some spaghetti carbonara, a whole roast chicken with french fries and a chocolate cake before eight in the morning and be calm, you do not get fat. For Note …
And so we could detail a lot more ..
The Exclusive Diets
Its purpose is the elimination of certain nutrients, and what have they done ?, poor things …
As an example the best known, “la Atkins”, rich in fat and without carbohydrate, that is to say ketogenic. That’s enough. 67% of energy comes from fat and 30% from protein.
This is a very clear example of using science by turning it around making it seem true, as you do not consume carbohydrates that are the fuel for immediate use, the more the body will use fat. Completely false.
- “La Scardale”, rich in protein, very fashionable today, unfortunately for those who use it it affects the liver and kidney, causing overload.
- The diet “Hollywood” is another example and its origin dates back to the 20s, it is very extreme, very hypocaloric and produces metabolic ketosis and kidney problems.
- “From the area ”, “From liquid protein”Are hyperproteic and no less bizarre in their supposed scientific arguments.
- Ah a very striking, “of the astronauts”. Surely everyone will think that if it is made by an astronaut, it is surely the result of the most advanced research. But no, astronauts don’t do it. It is powdered (astronauts use lyophilisates which are also powders and hence the name. Supplemented with tablets and various “sweets”.)
- We will also have heard other names like “Lutz”, “Pemmington”, “South Beach”, “Dr Haas” or “Pritikin”, same dog with different collar …
Monodiets and liquid diets
The monodiet is another clear example of using science backwards to deceive. For example, the monodiet can say: “the apple has slimming power, eat only apple ”, this is transferable to many foods, especially at this time of year and with the famous Operation Bikini.
The “of the Apple”It does not have any slimming power by itself (NO FOOD HAS IT!), But it is hypocaloric and if you eat only apples in a day, you will consume less Kcal than your total energy expenditure needs, with which you will lose weight… regardless of the nutritional imbalance.
Another example is the Diet “potato“. The more the merrier. It claims to be diuretic and detoxifying. What a mania with intoxication and nutrition, they want us vegetable!
Foods DO NOT INTOXICATE, they only do so if they are toxic, natural or artificial, but not by their own nature, if they are made, ready for consumption, for example by heat treatment.
The potato has a lot of potentially toxic compounds that do not reach our body.
Thus we could list a large number of foods associated with single-product diets, such as “From the gazpacho”, “from the chorizo”, “from the grapefruit”, “from the artichoke”, etc, at the end …
In respect of the liquid ones, la “Of beer”I love it, drinking 2,5 liters of beer a day for 48 hours. The loss will be due to the diuretic effect, that is, evacuating, and that is not healthy.
We also highlight the “From the milk”, the “juice cure”, “from the infusions”, all of them cause an intense sensation of hunger.
To conclude, we are also called unfounded diets, such as “from Beberly Hills “ “Of blood groups“, he “obitest”, and a very long etc.
In short, it is easy not to run into them, we simply must always consult a true nutrition professional, so that he is the one who prescribes the diet that best suits our body, without miracles, simply with discipline and individualized analysis. It’s that easy, and if we complement it with physical exercise, the better.
In the next chapter more magic, hand in hand with the innumerable miraculous products that fill our lives with “hope” …