Negative Effects Of Dieting

Dieting is the most prominent method used today in our society for losing weight, and many people from all over the world follow diet restrictions to lose weight. Although dieting does help one lose weight for a certain amount of time; he/she gain all the weight back and even more pounds afterward. In addition, dieting can have a variety of negative side effects such as, psychological effects which ultimately leads to eating disorders like anorexia, and physical effects.

When people go on a diet, they start with a mindset that they need to eat less and less of food, in which by doing so, they are training their brain into thinking that they are full and do not need to eat food even though they are hungry. And because they have conditioned

Eating too few calories or carbohydrates can increase stress because both are necessary for proper brain function and the production of feel-good chemicals, such as serotonin. Which means that dieting causes one to become depressed which can eventually lead to an eating disorder called anorexia. Anorexia is an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat. This disease is caused by a person’s mentality that they need to diet by eating less, and eventually, this becomes a habit and it becomes extreme dieting. The National Eating Disorders Association reports that 35% of “normal dieters” progress to pathological dieting and that 20-25% of those individuals develop eating disorders. Dieting tends to get out of control for some people, it all starts with a simple goal of losing a little weight, but you gain it back again, and the cycle goes on and on. This eventually leads to people losing control of how to diet, and they start to diet extremely. Some people eat, then purge, a medical term called bulimia. Dian, in her article, Diet can be Harmful mentioned, “Unfortunately, strict dieting led not to Nirvana, but to an endless cycle: lose five pounds, gain five pounds; repeat. My fierce self-deprivation while following what my mother called "those crazy diets" also spurred me to binge eat rebelliously, so for two years my