Fasting with excess weight
Starving and doctors agree in one opinion - prolonged fasting is not a way to get rid of excess weight. There are several reasons for this. First, when a person refuses food, he loses not fat cells, but liquid. The organism, being in a state of stress, "understands" that it is not going to feed it, and it keeps the fat as long as possible.
Metabolism during abstinence from food slows down and when returning to normal diet there is a high probability that the depleted body will gain excess fat "in reserve", so the dropped weight will return quickly and with "friends." Doctors, nutritionists explain that useful starvation in order to lose weight can only be a short-term, 24-36 hours. At the same time, it is necessary to enter and exit this period of refusal from food with the mind.
Starvation as a detoxifier
To understand whether starvation will help to cleanse the body is not so easy, because many experts claim that we do not need special cleaning, since a healthy organism copes with this task itself. The function of removing harmful substances from the body is performed: skin, liver, kidneys, lymph nodes and intestines.
Also, many experts assure that the lifestyle and nutrition of modern man contributes to the accumulation of toxins and toxins in the body, which can lead to diseases such as diabetes, depression and many others. According to these doctors, fasting helps to get rid of unnecessary waste, as well as toxins that accumulate in fat cells, thanks to short-term fasting.
Fasting as a way of prolonging life
Long-term animal studies have shown that individuals who eat less food lived longer. There have also been experiments that have shown that alternating starvation with a moderate diet regime has a significant effect on life expectancy, which also makes it significantly better.
People who are fasting are sure that many diseases can be treated with the help of giving up food. A lot of stories are known, as due to prolonged starvation people coped with heart disease, intestinal diseases and even tumors.
There is an opinion of some psychotherapists that adhering to short-term fasting, you can overcome depression and stress. But you need to start fasting with 6-8 hours of abstinence from food, gradually increasing the time to 24-48 hours.
We take care
If you have weighed all the pros and cons, you still decided to go hungry, then you need to visit a doctor and undergo a complete examination. To reduce the possibility of some complications, fasting should be controlled by a health worker. You also need to decide for what purpose you want to refuse food, because, depending on this, the doctor can make adjustments.
And remember! Categorically, one should not starve when:
- heart failure
- muscle atrophy
- kidney disease
- hepatitis
- pregnancy.