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... Dieting, in its formal definition is the limited taking of food and drinks of a person for health reasons. ... But what is true today about dieting is that young women tend to get carried away by these mixed messages resulting to unhealthy dieting practices or what we call the crash diets.
Dieting has become increasingly widespread, not only to achieve current ideals of thinness, but also because of the increased prevalence of young women being conscious with their appearance and social acceptance. The answer does not lie in the current trend of attempts to attain fast solutions using unhealthy dieting practices, crash diets, which promise rapid weight loss over short periods of time. These unhealthy dieting practices may certainly cause adverse effects resulting to common notions that dieting has its disadvantageous effects but only if dieting was done properly it could actually result into something fruitful.
This paper aims to prove that although dieting can lead to disadvantageous effects, it still has good effects that improves a person’s physical, social, and mental well-being. Because dieting is commonplace among young women, they should not only consider what disadvantageous effects it could bring, but also be aware of its potential good effects.
Dieting can cause a lot of disadvantageous effects only when it is not practiced properly and done for the wrong reasons. ... Due to the lack of food caused by crash dieting, the body considers this a famine and a feeling of deprivation results. ... Most people think they are losing fat when they diet but study after study shows that unhealthy dieting practices destroys muscles, bone and even brain tissue (Lee, 1999). ...
Unhealthy dieting practices also cause different sicknesses. Medically speaking, the more well known hazards of dieting are loss of hair, loss of gall bladder, gallstones, lowered immunity, anemia, sensitivity to cold, depression, constipation, diarrhea, hypoglycemia, loss of body muscle, dehydration, cardiac arrhythmias, fatigue, amonarrhea, inability to concentrate, and even death, may occur (Feist & Brannon, 1992, p. ... According to Lee (2000), study shows that dieting reduces brain chemicals involved in depression. A person who is dieting may not get enough of the chemical known as tryptophan, which in turn helps create seratonin, a hormone involved in mood regulation. Not only that but dieting may also lead to common eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa (Moran, 2002). ...
Despite of the common negative effects of dieting, what people do not know is that only if dieting was done properly together with the right exercise, it could result positive effects that would actually make a person’s life better.
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