5 Things NOT To Do On A Diet

Here are some diet shortcuts that are decidedly dangerous and should be avoided if you value your health.

1.) Diet Pills. They are a short term fix only. Once you stop taking them, you will be hungry again and will go back to your normal eating patterns, which means you will regain all of your weight. These can cause you to become very dehydrated during the hotter months because of their diuretic properties. Their side effects can also include headaches, dizziness, nausea, and heart palpitations.

2.) Health food fads like ephedra. "Herbal" and "all-natural" does not mean safe. Deadly Nightshade is all natural. So is rattlesnake venom. Ephedra has been tied to a number of deaths, and is now banned for sale in the United States. Just because a diet product is being sold at your local store that its ok to take.

3.) Fasting. Fasting quickly sends your body into starvation mode, and your metabolism slows down so that when you start eating again you will be astonished at how fast the pounds pile back on. And it may take a long time for your metabolism to return to normal again. Fasting will also cause your body to burn muscle for energy. You want it to burn fat NOT muscle; less muscle will burn less fat, you want more muscle to aid in fat burning! This can cause serious damage. Your heart is a muscle, and your body does not differentiate between what types of muscle tissue it raids for fuel.

4.) Fad Diets.Trendy diets come and go. Scarsdale Diet, Cabbage soup and grapefruit diet are a few for example. Although those diets aren't good for you, because of their heavy reliance on protein, they are not as bad as diets like the grapefruit diet, or the cabbage soup diet. The problem with all of these diets is that they often rely heavily on changing your diet in an unnatural way and consuming mostly one kind of food, which does not give you the variety of nutrients that you need and which are impossible to follow long term.

5.) Eating prepackaged diet foods. Yes, they are conveniant, but these meals are surprisingly high in sodium and fat. Sodium leads to high BP and the people who are overweight are the exact types of people that should not have this. The American Heart Association recommends not exceeding 2000 mgs of sodium a day, but many prepackaged diet foods contain that much in a single meal.

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