2008-05-11 Why extreme diets dont work - Times Online

But is it safe for Robert and other pre-summer dieters to shed weight quickly with near-starvation rations, especially if we pile it all back on again rapidly in that classic yo-yo pattern Andrew Prentice, Professor of International Nutrition at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and an expert on obesity, says that from a metabolic point of view it is not a problem: and ldquo;While it is true that when we diet our metabolic rate (the rate at which we burn energy) goes down, it simply drops to a level which is appropriate to our new weight. If you were to put the lost weight back on again, it would bounce back up. human metabolism is designed to yo-yo. and rdquo; That said, some and ldquo;starvation rations and rdquo; are nutritionally better for you than others.

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