What Happens to Your Body When You Starve It
When you starve your body the body slows down on it metabolism to conserve energy. For some that want to lose weight they think if they starve themselves they will lose weight faster when in fact this is not so. It is not advisable to starve your body as without sufficient glucose your brains functioning will not function correctly and experience mental fatigue, inability to concentrate, irritability, headaches, and confusion. If your intensions to lose weight you may find you will lose weight and you'll look great but as soon as you start eating again it stores the food you are eating and you find yourself gaining weight again. It is not recommended to starve yourself of food as you can also develop health problems. The best way if you want to lose weight is to eat a well balanced diet and exercise to burn the fat. First I would advise you check with a doctor who can also give you advise on losing weight.
Posted by jvalone on 8/31/2009
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Diet and Weight Loss question: What happens when you starve yourself to lose weight? On a starvation diet, the body slows down its metabolism to conserve energy. This means the longer you go on not eating/eating ... View existing comments for "What happens when you starve yourself to lose weight?"
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Nutrition question: What happens to your body when you starve to death? You would die slowly. ... Starve to death? How do you starve to death? Can you starve yourself to death? How does a person starve to death? How long until you starve to death? What happens when ypu starve to death? What happens to the body when you starve?
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Re: What happens when you starve yourself? ... It's not true, but there is some grain of truth in it - if you starve yourself, your body will go into starvation mode to conserve energy, resulting in less calories burned and thus slower weight loss. This is seen in very low calorie diets after a few weeks.
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In Reply to: What really happens to your body when you starve it?? posted by anonymous on November 08, 2000 at 16:21:44: ... HealthBoards > Archive 1996-2000 > Eating Disorders Message Board - Archived 11/28/98-12/21/00; > Re: What really happens to your body when you starve it??
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HealthBoards > Archive 1996-2000 > Eating Disorders Message Board - Archived 11/28/98-12/21/00; > What really happens to your body when you starve it??
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Lanugo: The body sprouts soft downy hair to help the anorexic keep warm. ... This is what happens to your body when you starve yourself, as anorexics do. Severe anorexia can lead to heart and kidney failure, and eventually, death.
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I don’t starve myself and I don’t pig out. ... You should ALWAYS get 1 gram per lb of bodyweight. I weigh 190, I get 190 grams a day, simple as that. Most people don’t get enough protein, and when that happens, your body doesn’t have enough to build new muscle with, and sometimes, your body will use your own muscle.
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I lost so much weight, I was down to 98 lbs. I will tell you what happens, you have no energy, you are depressed, you have health problems and finally, your body starts to eat at the muscles to survive...it hurts to walk.
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