Fad Diets and Calorie Restriction Can End With Our Children

When you think of weight loss you think of dieting. No question about it. In fact, everywhere we turn we see another ad, commercial, or person that refers to dieting and weight loss. New diets pop out at us and they seem to make a whole lot of sense while we are reading about them and learning what they consist of.

Weight reducing products are taking up a lot of the market with their remarkable stories of weight loss in just a few weeks or months. I don't deny the fact that it is possible to lose that weight and and that quickly; I just think that it's not as easy to keep it off without gaining it back.

You can lose weight with these diets and watch the pounds come off, start fitting into your skinny jeans, and watch everyone look at you in amazement at how quickly you are doing it, but without exercise and proper eating you will probably be doomed to one day be back up to your starting weight again or even more when it's all said and done.

In fad diets, where you eliminate a lot of food from your diet, you have to remember that chances are you will eat those foods again. And once you eat those foods again you risk gaining the weight back and losing the 'benefits' of the fad diet.

When you decrease calories by a huge amount you can cause the body to slow its metabolic rate to conserve energy. So essentially by starving yourself you burn less fat and have less energy and it may hinder your weight loss no matter how much you think eating nothing should work.

Add exercise into the equation though and you may have a different story. Regular exercise will change how your body produces energy and increase its ability to burn stored fat and lose weight.

I think instead of letting the next generation grow up to have the same problems we are having, we need to teach them right now that exercise is crucial to maintaining a healthy body and weight along with eating a healthy and well balanced diet.

No, I'm not saying we want to tell them that they will grow up fat if they don't start working on it now but I am saying that we need to make sure they know we don't want them to be obsessed with their weight like we are, but rather we want them to know that taking care of their bodies and health is important to ward off disease and obesity.

Think of everything you learned as a child and you'll know that it had a strong influence about the way you look at things now. I see more teens asking questions such as if they look fat in their pictures, and will they lose weight if they only eat one grapefruit a day and run 2 miles afterwards, and other ridiculous questions that not even my generation seemed fixated on. What will the next set of teens be like if we don't stop this craziness?

Let's raise are kids to be smarter and healthier than us and we'll never have to worry about fad diets again.



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