Diet Traps to Avoid

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A healthy approach to dieting involves developing eating habits that you can sustain throughout your life. Dieting can be dangerous if you get caught in traps set for you by product and pill pushers. Promises that you will lose extreme amounts of weight quickly are attractive because they present a quick fix. Healthy dieting, however, requires gradual changes in habits that leave your body trimmer, healthier and more energetic. Here are some dangerous diet traps to avoid.

Belief in a Single Pill or Product

If you've caught yourself wondering if there's a single pill or product that you can consume to lose all excess weight, you're not alone. Changing your eating habits requires patience and perseverance. Taking a single pill to lose weight is quick and easy. Avoid this dangerous diet trap because diet pills and products, while helpful in some ways, are not practical in the long term as a sole approach to dieting. You will eventually return to your normal diet and find yourself in social settings where developing the habit of eating in moderation will be more beneficial, and in some cases, could potentially do damage to your body by taking pills that are not regulated by the FDA.

Extreme Dieting

Another diet trap that is easy to fall into is the thought of eating only one type of food or drinking all of your meals. Juice fasts that eliminate solid foods for days on end deprive you of important nutrients, particularly protein. Fatigue and muscle loss are often the outcomes of extreme dieting and result in an appearance that is far from ideal.

Mental Health

While maintaining your weight and eating a balanced diet are good for your health, losing too much weight can be dangerous. If you or a loved one think you may be suffering from an eating disorder, seek a professional counselor right away. Mental health experts can give you support and education about how to develop a healthy relationship to food for long term health.

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