The act of calorie restriction without medical supervision is by no means a healthy practice. It is easy to assume that subtracting from the regular consumption of calories would create a weight loss of body fat. However, not all instances of this case are true. Creating a caloric deficit by simply eating less often results in losing muscle tissue. Weight loss often becomes a complicated, paradoxical system involving many bodily systems becoming depleted of energy that simply do not need to be. Psychological stress, malnutrition, and disruption of bodily systems are important factors that make calorie restriction dangerous.
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS
First of all, psychological stress can be experienced during a period of over-restricting calories. …show more content…
Malnutrition can come into play when a dieter is restricting their calories in such a way that they are no longer getting enough of the good and nutritious things they need. Malnutrition can also happen when a dieter is not consuming enough calories for the body to function …show more content…
As mentioned earlier, eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa come coupled with the extreme desire to lose weight. A dieter with such desire may do anything to lose weight including becoming malnourished. For example, someone with anorexia who eats little to nothing and exercises multiple times a day is not getting enough calories or nutrients to refuel his or her body from the strenuous exercise. The European Journal of Clinical Nutrition states, “It is very well known that the most common feature in AN and BN [ anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa] is an obsessive desire to lose weight together with an exaggerated fear of becoming fat, leading to a particular type of malnutrition in both syndromes” (Gomez et al.).
Particularly, having an eating disorder associated with malnourishment has serious results. The most serious being death. The National Association Of Anorexia Nervosa And Associated Disorders (ANAD) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention and alleviation of eating disorders since 1976. ANAD states, “ Part of the reason why there is a large variance in the reported number of deaths caused by eating disorders is because those who suffer from an eating disorder may ultimately die of heart failure, organ failure, malnutrition or suicide”(Eating
PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS
First of all, psychological stress can be experienced during a period of over-restricting calories. …show more content…
Malnutrition can come into play when a dieter is restricting their calories in such a way that they are no longer getting enough of the good and nutritious things they need. Malnutrition can also happen when a dieter is not consuming enough calories for the body to function …show more content…
As mentioned earlier, eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa come coupled with the extreme desire to lose weight. A dieter with such desire may do anything to lose weight including becoming malnourished. For example, someone with anorexia who eats little to nothing and exercises multiple times a day is not getting enough calories or nutrients to refuel his or her body from the strenuous exercise. The European Journal of Clinical Nutrition states, “It is very well known that the most common feature in AN and BN [ anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa] is an obsessive desire to lose weight together with an exaggerated fear of becoming fat, leading to a particular type of malnutrition in both syndromes” (Gomez et al.).
Particularly, having an eating disorder associated with malnourishment has serious results. The most serious being death. The National Association Of Anorexia Nervosa And Associated Disorders (ANAD) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention and alleviation of eating disorders since 1976. ANAD states, “ Part of the reason why there is a large variance in the reported number of deaths caused by eating disorders is because those who suffer from an eating disorder may ultimately die of heart failure, organ failure, malnutrition or suicide”(Eating