Unhealthy eating is really a dangerous problem in America, and contrary to a very outdated perception this harm is not limited to those who suffer from obesity[1]. In reality, per the Directors of Health Promotion and Education, the majority of Americans who exhibit unhealty eating habits, with just over one in four ladies and only one in five men claiming to eat the minimum five daily servings of vegetables and fruits[i].
In response to the current growing wave of American malnutrition, a number of nutrition-based options have been proposed. This has been both a positive, and ironically, a negative, development.
This has been positive in view of the straightforward truth that it has helped improve basic “nutrition IQ”. The actual fact that almost all urban centers are home to dozens of diet and weight loss centers, and that a lot of malls currently have a minimum of one health store has advanced awareness of America’s unhealthy eating problem.
We have the various television shows and news reports that have covered the popular weight loss plans that dominate recent weight loss discussions, like: the Atkins Diet, the South Beach Diet, the Zone Diet, and more. The actual fact that a vending machine may actually contain a piece of fruit nowadays is additional positive proof of this mounting nutritional awareness.
However, there's a downside as well. This increasing data has created a dizzying health and nutrition marketplace inside which some irresponsible products are being offered. Among these products – and arguably the most awful kind -- those that artificially suppress appetite.
There are two equally important reasons why appetite suppressants are dangerous and irresponsible dietary ideas.
The primary reason is that they fool people trying to lose weight into thinking that actual weight is being lost. As an example, an sadly popular choice for some dieters is to take diet pills. These pills are usually diuretics that promote weight-loss through water loss. As such, while a dieter will feel less hungry and lose weight when they're taking the diet pills, each of these effects will stop when taking the pills cease. Weight gain will return rapidly, as will appetite[ii].
This results in another reason why these appetite suppressant products are irresponsible and risky. The human body is home to a extremely intelligent network of systems, cells, chemicals, and neurotransmitters. No matter one’s personal view of evolution of how the human body came to be this way, it's agreed by both creationists, evolutionists, and everyone else that the human body is really a exceptional example of comprehensive intelligence.
For instance, the human body is able to synthetically manufacture – without any conscious help from the owner of that body – 12 of the twenty amino acids that comprise protein[2]. Or consider the blood, whose plasma carries platelets that enable minor wound and blood clotting. Each of these examples echo a extraordinary kind of intelligence that the human body humbly and silently exhibits all the way through life.
When hunger is artificially suppressed it interferes with this intelligence. The body and its elaborate system of problem-solving mechanisms grows confused. Primarily, the body remains hungry, but it does not feel hungry. The body continues to be craving the essential nutrition it requires to survive: proteins, essential fats, nutrients, vitamins, and calories. Nevertheless because the hunger signal is not being effectively transmitted from these systems to the brain – owing to the appetite suppressant – the individual dieter isn't responding. For the short-term, a person trying to lose weight could lose some pounds[3]. Within the long-term the dieter will suffer from some form of malnutrition.
Clearly, appetite suppression “solutions” are not options at all. They are irresponsible and potentially damaging – even fatal – biological short cuts that weaken the instinctive intellect of the human body. They additionally usually render the dieter weaker and in worse form than before, particularly if the inevitable post-pill weight gain results in a bout of emotional eating and subsequent extra weight gain.
What is required can be described as a rather old-fashioned mainstay of healthy weight loss: a healthy diet[iii][4]. This is, however, easier said than done particularly since, as noted above, in America only about 25% of ladies and 20% of men eat an adequate amount fruit and vegetable servings each day.
Within this rather complex scenario or issues and limitations, however, there are some pioneering companies that are enjoying critical acclaim from both the medical and the weight loss fields.
These corporations – and admittedly there are very few of them -- provide dieters a well balanced meal supplement which will also be used as a meal replacement. This is of explicit value to dieting business executives, university students, and other frenetically busy people who don't have the time to organize balanced, meals.
Of larger importance is that these advanced solutions do not suppress appetite in the least, nor irresponsibly deny your body the nutrients and vitamins required for healthy survival. Rather, the body is given the fuel that it needs via vitamin fortified, low-calorie, fat-free food that's well-balanced and nutritionally sound.
It will remain objectionable, offensive, and annoying to see so-called “diet solutions” that are little more than hunger suppressants that may -- and usually do -- produce a lot more damage than superficial, temporary good. It is anticipated that, in the end, such products will be exposed for the irresponsible items that they are, and banned from the marketplace.
However, until that happens, it can be up to the responsible nutrition firms in America to carry on developing solutions that really help dieters help themselves within the long term.
[1] Obesity, which is caused mainly by unhealthy eating, is responsible for an estimated 300,000 deaths per year and all of them preventable.
[2] The remaining 8 amino acids are called the “essential amino acids” and must be obtained through diet.
[3] This kind of diuretic weight loss, however, will come at the expense of muscle and not fat.
[4] In addition to diet, customized exercise plans are also proposed to aid and maintain healthy long-term weight loss.
References
[i] Source: “Physical Activity and Unhealthy Eating”. The Directors of Health Promotion and Education. http://www.astdhpphe.org/pubs_facts_physicalfactsheet3.asp
[iii] Source: “Weight Loss: What Really Works?”. WebMD. http://my.webmd.com/content/article/49/40236.htm
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