Dieting practice headed towards weight loss


Dieting has taken up new meaning of fashion in present times. The particular objective of dieting is to loss weight but some athletes aspire to gain weight in muscle form. A well charted out diet could also be used to maintain healthy body weight. A strict diet chart of specific food helps to reduce weight but a specific diet chart work for one person may not show the same satisfactory results on some other person, due to metabolic difference and lifestyle factor.

Not only in 21st century but in preceding centuries too people were keen to follow particular diet chart. In 17th and 18th century, patients and physicians followed a strict diet chart to prevent certain diseases. Targeted diet was popular in 19th century also. William Banting is the first one who has successfully lost weight by following targeted diet in 1863, by targeting carbohydrates.

According to thermoregulation principle, humans are endothems. We expand energy to maintain our blood temperature with our body temperature which is about 37C. It’s accomplished by metabolic and blood circulation, by shivering to stay warm or by sweating.

Physical exercise complements diet in securing weight loss. Aerobic exercise is also an important way to maintain good health, especially muscular strength of heart. Brisk walk in the early morning or in evening can help to gain 50 percent of maximum heart rate in 30minutes is like efficient aerobic exercise. There are also easy ways to loss weight like walking instead of driving, taking staircase instead of taking elevators.

It’s important to understand the difference between fat loss and muscle loss. Weight loss typically involves loss of fat, water and muscles. A dieter can loss weight without losing fat. An obese patient ought to loss fat not muscles, since muscle burn more calories than fat. If one has more muscle mass, the higher the one’s metabolism, resulting in more calories being burned, even when you are at rest. Muscles are more dense than fat, hence the muscle loss result is less visible in physical bulk as compared to fat loss. To determine whether weight loss is because of fat, various methods of measuring body fat percentage have been introduced.

Strange or extreme diet practices are often ineffective and dangerous. There are some diet pills which are made directly keeping in mind a perfect dietary program. But many diet pills have certain vitamins and minerals which fail to help in losing weight. Some drugs which promise to make your weight loss have high risk of side-effects.

Another dangerous way to loss is by fasting. The long term fast can have severe effects on body. Dieting, extreme food intake reduction and rapid weight loss , can have severe side effects like depression, fatigue , irritability, sinus, acidosis, bloodshot eyes, to name a few and can lead to death also. << Back to Weight Loss