Nutrition 2

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What are “fad diets”?

Diets that promise quick weight loss and usually require you to eat specific types of food

Fad Diets

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Examples of fad diets:

Fit for Life (food combining diet)

Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution (low carbohydrate diet)

Metabolife 356 (diet pills)

Slim Fast (liquid diet)

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The weight that you lose is usually water and/or lean muscle rather than body fat.

Some of these diets can be harmful to your health.

They sometimes do not include exercise which is important for healthy living.

Fad Diets

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They limit your food choices and usually keep you from a balanced diet.

These diets do not offer long-term success, and you usually gain back all the weight you lose.

Psychological disorder that involves a person starving themselves due to

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Warning signs:

Eating extremely small amounts of food per day

False impression of their own body image

Obsessed with exercise

Harmful effects:

Damage to the heart

Excessive weight loss

Negatively affects the immune system

Death

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Psychological disorder that involves a person overeating (“binging”) followed by the use of laxatives or vomiting to keep from gaining weight

Bulimia

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People who suffer from this disorder usually have a false sense of their body image, and they are constantly striving to obtain the “perfect body.”

Harmful effects:

Tooth decay (from excessive vomiting)

Damage to the kidneys

Dehydration Death

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Compulsive Excercise

Best defined by an exercise addict's frame of mind: He or she no longer chooses to exercise but feels compelled to and struggles with guilt/anxiety if he or she doesn't work out.

Exercising takes over the exerciser's life because he or she plans life around it.

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Excessive exercise damages tendons, ligaments, bones, cartilage, and joints

May disrupt the balance of hormones in their bodies.

The combination of anorexia and compulsive exercise can be fatal.