Nutritionists says water only diet is most dangerous ever

luxoraleader.com ^ | December 26, 2017

[BenLurkin]

Eating disorder expert Joanne Labiner likened Water Fasting to conditions like anorexia and said it should be avoided, especially at a time of year when people are considering slimming down after Christmas.

She said: ‘It can be so bad for your organs. That’s why people with anorexia can die of a heart attack. Their body feeds on their heart.

‘Our body thinks it’s an emergency and tries to prevent that fat storage from being used up, and it feeds on the muscle’.

On social media site Twitter dieters claimed that the Water Fast left their skin looking ‘amazing’.

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NHS guidelines say that if you want to lose weight you should lose no more than 2lbs a week if you want it to be sustainable.

Kidney specialist Dr Jason Fung, said that short term fasting worked but only for certain patients. He suggested that water fasts were appropriate for clients who are obese or have Type 2 diabetes – but only under the supervision of a doctor.

He said: ‘It can be done, people do them, but they have to be done safely.

‘I don’t think it’s the safest thing to do, but if you’re obese, it’s not the most dangerous thing, either. If you’re relatively slender, it’s more dangerous’. Dr Fung, who wrote a book called ‘The Complete Guide to Fasting’, added: ‘The longer you (fast) the more risks you take’. 

[HLPhat]

Riiight. No anorexic ever died from dieting/fasting.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Anorexia/bulimia are mental disorders, Skippy, in case you were unaware of that.

But then you do know everything.

So since you know so much about fasting, how many times have you done it?

Or do you know everything simply because you’re omniscient?

[HLPhat]

What were your BMI and tonnage before and after your last “water fast”?

[HLPhat]

>>You have a lot more chance of being killed by aspirin than by fasting.

Meanwhile, in reality land:

[DEATH DURING THERAPEUTIC STARVATION FOR OBESITY]
“12 cases of obesity, complicated by a variety of conditions, have been treated by periods of starvation varying from two to eight weeks. 2 cases started in severe heart-failure and both died suddenly after three and eight weeks treatment during which time their clinical condition improved considerably. It is suggested that the combination of obesity and severe heart-failure should not be treated by starvation for there would seem to be a very real risk of inducing ventricular fibrillation.”
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(68)92299-X/abstract

[GROSS FRAGMENTATION OF CARDIAC MYOFIBRILS AFTER THERAPEUTIC STARVATION FOR OBESITY]
Death from ventricular fibrillation consequent upon therapeutic starvation to her ideal weight is described in an obese but otherwise healthy 20-year-old girl. At the time of her death the plasma electrolytes, calcium, magnesium, pH, and blood-gas tensions were normal. The extracellular fluid volume was also normal although the lean body mass was reduced. The myocardial fibres were reduced to approximately half their normal diameter, and electron microscopy revealed gross loss and fragmentation of the myofibrils. It is concluded that prolonged total starvation is an unsafe procedure.

http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S014067366992546X

[LACTIC ACIDOSIS AND DEATH AFTER THE TREATMENT OF OBESITY BY FASTING.]

“the case of an extremely obese diabetic patient who acquired lactic acidosis while fasting and who subsequently died is described”
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM196503252721208

Etc.