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Top Four Risks Of Quick Weight Loss

By Kamal Nayan | Update Date: Aug 20, 2014 01:41 PM EDT

Fast weight loss is everybody's secret wish. However this tempting wish can have severe detrimental effects on your health. Aside physical harm, fast weight loss may even cause mental stress and depression. 

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Here are top 4 risks that fast weight loss has with it. 

It's not permanent

Fast weight loss is not a permanent solution. According to experts, our body is not trained to the temporary changes, so it will fail to adapt to the changes and more likely the body will regain weight once again. 

2. Fast weight loss is dehydration

One of the most famous technique to loose some quick pounds is the dehydration technique. Our most of the body weight is water, so people dehydrate themselves to lose weight. The technique is obviously unreal and harmful too. 

3. Sleeping disorders

Losing weight fast can make you tired very quickly and very often. When people get into the weight loss schedule, they engage in lessening the amount of calories intake instead of burning fat. This leads to low metabolic rate. 

Read: Sleep Deprivation Tied to False Memories

4. Formation of gallstones

Gallstones are hardening of cholesterols which look like stones. These can lead to severe damage by causing infection due to obstruction in the normal flow of bile from the gallbladder to the small intestine. 

Related read: Theory That Drinking Water Aids Weight Loss Debunked 

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