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Diuretics are drugs that stimulate the renal excretion of water and electrolytes due to their action on ion transport in the nephron. The weight loss caused by their inappropriate use due to a decrease in the water compartment, and not to reduce body fat, so this loss is easily recoverable, which explains the contraindication of these drugs to reduce body weight .

By increasing the elimination of water increases, so the removal of minerals, especially potassium ion, can cause hypokalemia (hypokalemia), this being the major side effect. Hypokalemia can result in fatigue, malaise, muscle weakness of lower extremities. The most severe hypokalemia can cause progressive weakness, hypoventilation (due to involvement of respiratory muscles) and eventually complete paralysis. Arrhythmias and cardiac arrest by ventricular fibrillation. Read the rest of this entry »

When you begin a strict diet, the body enters a state known as war economy. By drastically restricting the caloric intake with food, the body automatically reduces the amount you need or spent to maintain the basic functions that keep you alive. This is known as decreased metabolism. You will spend less calories per day.
When the diet is inadequate, metabolism becomes depressed. Every time consuming fewer calories, which, after a significant initial decrease, that excites you, the body enters what is known as a plateau. This means that the weight loss stops.
Suppose that you have gone on a diet of 2,000 calories daily to 1100. Your body loses fluid, fat and some muscle proteins. But above all, in those first four or five kilos that decreased, which has lost is fluid.
Noting that no longer lose weight, because what you spend has adapted to what you consume, the road will further reduce calories in their diet, reaching 800 or 700. Again recorded a decrease of weight, fat loss and muscle mass. Until we reach the next plate.
What is the path from that point? Further reduce calorie intake, because, otherwise, their body weight will not be mobile. Consume only 500 or 600 calories, to fall in fasting diets, unsustainable over time. Read the rest of this entry »