Weight loss- No magical solution
With the obesity figure reaching an all time
high most of us are on the trail, for a magical resolutions for the weight
related problems. Devoted and admiring fans of celebrities with immaculate
figures, lap up diet plans of celebrities who swear by its efficacy. Many of us
believe that people who have stuck to a particular diet regime are magically
bestowed with perfect bodies. Followed religiously many of this wonder diet
plans may in fact result in weight loss. Often however these are temporary
solutions with serious health repercussions.
In the modern times people are imprisoned by
their self created monsters. Eating a simple home cooked meal (using whole
ingredients), is a thing of the past now, and reserved for special occasion.
People have become hooked to the highly processed refined foods, bursting with
fat and carbohydrate. An entire generation has been breed on fast food with
little nutritional value. A sedentary life style combined with this completes
the fatal partnership. Fad diets, magical weight loss in 9 days, lipo-suctions
and infinite other modern techniques of weight loss sprout up each day. The
assumptions that anything new and modern is bound to be good, often makes us shortsighted
and blind to the solutions nearer at home. Following a well balanced diet
geared to an individuals needs and taste is usually the best way out.
Unfortunately most people fail to resist the temptations surrounding them, and
so the quest for the “Holy Grail Diet” continues.
Many of
the designed diet plans are fads which have been fashioned without adequate
research about the effect of such a diet regime on the health of the people.
Many of them rigidly control the kind of food consumed, or completely prohibit
the consumption of a particular food variety like dairy products, fats, sweets
etc. A diet with overabundance of protein can cause health complications like
kidney problems, bloating etc. Unbalanced diet is bound to give rise to several
nutritional deficiencies. At times an individual has severe addiction to a
particular food variety and sudden severe restrictions give rise to cravings.
An individual may feel caged and depressed. Intense craving where the mind
dwells over thoughts about food, unable to concentrate on any other activity
defeats the very purpose of the diet plan. In such a scenario meal time becomes
monotonous and boring and an individual resolve to stick to the regime is bound
to suffer. Many diet plans involve a hunt for exotic, wonder ingredients which are
not easily available.
