Are liquid diets effective for weight loss?
July 2, 2009 |16:10 | Diet By : Team X
Liquid diets are popular mostly for its rapid, effortless weight loss claims. With often unbelievable assertions of extreme weight loss, liquid diets are fads, maintaining their timeless appeal. And, in a fast-paced modern society, the convenience of consuming only liquids four to six times a day is undeniably alluring.
However, with the proliferation of new diseases and a desire for a defined, toned, muscular body, are liquid diets an effective solution to proper weight loss management or just a radical approach using a quick-fix elixir?
A liquid diet restricts one to a daily consumption of specific fluids with an intention either to lose weight, detoxify or cleanse the body or for medical reasons relating to pre- and post-surgery. Nowadays, most liquid diets are synonymous with rapid or sometimes even “instant” weight loss. Since liquid passes through our digestive system faster than food, then it is only logical to assume that a diet consisting of mostly -- or only -- liquids will accelerate the body’s ability to lose weight.
Calories and Liquid Diets.

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The most basic thing to get on with after your job or during it is how you look and feel. It is unthinkable that a woman bent on “having it all” would want to be fat, or even plump, so I am now going to give you my diet rules. I’m not a doctor, but a longtime, hardened-criminal-case dieter like me possibly knows as much about diet as many people, including doctors, who write books and magazine articles on the subject. Many doctors don’t know anything about nutrition, incidentally. You’re supposed to check with a doctor before you begin a diet. Okay, check. He won’t have any magic to get you through the diet, but he can give you his blessing.








