Question

How disruptive do you think the diet therapy will be to everything life? question on Human Heredity 11 edition pg 63 number 3

Answer 1

Diet therapy may become disruptive to life because of the following reasons:

1. Decrease in metabolism as many plans provide very low calories to allow weight loss, this results in your body storing fats rather than burning.

2. Can be unhealthy as you lose many micronutrients.

3. More weight gain after the diet therapy if there is no exercise involved in the plan.

4. Extreme hunger.

5. Muscle loss which depends on the type of regimen you can lose water weight and muscles instead of fat.

6. Dehydration as the body loses sodium which hods water.

7. State of ketosis as the body burns fats for energy.

8. Kidney failure due to high protein diet.

9. Kidney stone.