Get into trouble because of losing weight the wrong way

One of the weight loss trends that is spreading on social networks is the Low-carb diet, which means limiting the amount of carbohydrates and increasing the proportion of protein and fat in the diet. According to Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Lam - Former Deputy Director of the National Institute of Nutrition, Carbohydrate is the group of carbohydrates, for Vietnamese people, this is the main source of energy in the daily diet (such as rice, noodles, corn, cassava, etc.).

“If you cut down on carbohydrates, the total energy intake will decrease, but the mistake here is that we often cut out carbohydrates completely. Instead, we eat a lot of protein and fat, while protein from meat is high in cholesterol and saturated fat. When we maintain such a diet for a long time, it is easy to have high blood fat, leading to cardiovascular events.

In addition, eating too much protein causes high uric acid in the blood, which can easily lead to gout, bone and joint pain... Not to mention that when eating too much protein, the kidney function has to work too hard, too much, and is even one of the causes of kidney failure. Some cancers also increase in people who eat too much meat, and eating too few vegetables and fruits also makes constipation worse..." - the nutrition expert analyzed.

Therefore, if you follow a low-carb diet, you can apply it for 1-2 weeks, but then you still have to switch back to balancing the nutritional components. Do not wait until the body has metabolic disorders, leaving kidney and cardiovascular sequelae, then it will be very difficult to fully recover.

In other cases, many people think that skipping breakfast will help them lose weight, but according to Associate Professor Lam, this is an alarming bad habit. Young people who gain a lot of weight often skip meals to lose weight, but losing weight with an improper diet will only cause muscle mass to decrease while fat mass does not decrease. Not to mention, consuming energy in a "full accumulates, hungry accumulates" way, eating little during the day but consuming a lot of energy at night makes fat accumulation even greater. And once overweight or obese, it will also lead to a series of different chronic diseases...

Prof. Dr. Le Thi Huong - Director of the Institute of Preventive Medicine and Public Health; Head of the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety (Hanoi Medical University) warned that losing weight by unscientific methods is an unfortunate mistake. In fact, there have been cases of losing weight by using sugarcane juice and bell peppers to detox, causing the body to not absorb enough energy for daily activities, causing electrolyte disorders. While it is estimated that women need 1000-1200 calories/day; in men it is 1300-1500 calories/day. One unfortunate case of weight loss that we know is a student who died because of fasting to lose weight.

Therefore, the advice for everyone who wants to apply any weight loss regimen is to seek advice from a nutritionist on how to create a low-energy diet but still ensure the diet.

Woman in trouble after drinking 2.5 liters of water a day to purify

To purify her body, the woman drank 2.5 liters of water every day, ate juicy fruits and drank soup; unexpectedly, her life was threatened.

Người phụ nữ gặp hoạ khi uống 2,5 lít nước mỗi ngày để thanh lọc - Ảnh 1.

Drinking lots of water is good for your health, but too much is harmful. Photo: VTC.

Drinking water is good for the body, but people still need to determine the appropriate level of drinking based on their physical condition. If abused, it will be dangerous. A recent sharing by Dr. Yuan Yu Ting (Taiwan, China) about a case of drinking too much water leading to serious heart failure has attracted special attention from the public.

On "Y Su Hao Lat" - a famous health program, Dr. Vien Vu Dinh said that not long ago, she received a 60-year-old female patient. This person had a history of diabetes and heart disease, and had to take medication for a long time. Fearing that a large amount of medication would cause poisoning, and hearing that the habit of drinking a lot of water every day would help purify and detoxify, the female patient was determined to follow.

Every day, this woman drank 2.5 liters of water and ate more juicy fruits and stewed soup. After maintaining this diet for 2 weeks, she began to have symptoms of wheezing, difficulty breathing, and could not lie down to sleep, so her family had to take her to the doctor. Through tests and X-rays, the doctor discovered that the patient's entire lungs were white. She also had severe heart failure.

After treatment, the patient's condition improved and she was discharged from the hospital after a few days of observation.

According to Dr. Vien Vu Dinh, drinking water to purify the body is good, it is a way to increase metabolism. However, this is not suitable for some people, such as people with heart failure and kidney disease. People with heart failure cannot eliminate water normally because the heart is not working hard enough to push the water out. People with kidney disease also cannot eliminate water easily because of poor kidney function. Therefore, they should only drink water in moderation.

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