A recent, smash hit weight-loss diet plan outlined by UK-based physician recommends women who opt for weight loss to consume just 500 calories of diet, a day for two days, a week. However, the plan allows women to eat anything they want on the rest of the days.
Dr. Michael Mosley, a UK-based doctor authored the new diet plan in The Fast Diet.
Unlike the ordinary diet plan, it’s nothing related to fasting but a break-up in the routine food intake, said Dr. Dr. Michael. So, no need to think about the diet all the time. With the minor change in diet plan, you can lead normal, routine day-to-day life, he said.
He followed the plan and lost nearly 20 lbs in just three months.
The plan attracts several criticisms from diet experts and nutritionists, all over the world. They argued that consuming one-fourth of recommended daily allowance calories could result in serious nutritional deficiencies.
According to Dr. David Katz, Director, Prevention Research Center, Yale University, intake of just 500 calories a day is seriously dangerous that can impair the metabolic rate. It can cause severe hypoglycemia with symptoms of distraction, restlessness and headache, he said.
Such plans could be useless, and potentially hazardous due to nutritional deficiencies with an increase in food cravings, said Dr. Karen Ansel, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
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