Starvation Diet

1. Starvation Diet Stephen Reiss

2. What is A starvation Diet • A starvation is when you eat very small portions of what you normally eat, cut out food for a period of time or eat certain foods that have little to no calories.

3. Long term effects • Some of the long term effects of a starvation that can help and hinder you in the future and some of them are that normal levels of IGF- 1 in the later parts of your live could make aging faster. • Some experts that have looked into this kind of diet day it could expand your life by 15% meaning you could live long . • Even though you can increase your life span over time due to the diet you loss most of your muscle mass and the body starts storing fat cells

4. Short term Effects • Even though the long term effects can be solved before they get worse the short term effects are harder to get rid of if not treated • Due to have less food than the body needs it starts to loss energy to function and do daily activities like walking, driving and even thinking • If you don’t drink enough liquids during the diet your skin could become stiff and dry and start acting like leather.

5. The deadly effects • Even though it sounds easy to get past and live off of the diet it also has some dangerous side effects . • If you do not have enough electrolyte’s in your body you could go into a coma and never wake up • If your blood pressure is low enough you could go into shock and then it could cause death • The most important thing is that you should ask your doctor about this kind of diet before starting

6. Hidden effects • Even though this diet might look good on the outside your insides are taking a major hit on the inside. • One major problem is that you could get an irregular heart beat and over time that could lead to heart problems or even a heart attack

7. Funny Facts • While all the other facts are serious some are funny or ironic and here are some of them. • During the diet you can grow a downy layer of hair which is an extra bit of hair all over the body . The reason this happened’s is that the body wants to keep you warm so it does the natural thing and grows hair to keep warm. • The starvation diet is meant to lose wait but it could do the opposite. When body fat gets low the body stores more fat cells in order to keep the body warm and at a normal body mass

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