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Saturday, 2 October 2010

The Myth Of Using Laxatives To Shed Weight

By Dicky Rejaka

Over fifty percent of the people in this country need to lose weight naturally. However, many people would rather try quick-fix weight loss solutions rather than doing it the proper way, by changing how they eat and live. Using laxatives to shed weight is probably the most common shortcuts. Some great benefits of this are simply a lie.

That's because laxatives do nothing to reduce the food, and therefore calories, you consume. Laxatives work to artificially stimulate the bowels, causing abdominal cramping and feeling of urgency. Matter is forced from the body caused by the stimulation of the bowels. But most of what is expelled is water, not fat. One may seem lose 2 or 3 pounds using laxatives, but after their use is stopped, the weight is put back on as we rehydrate our bodies.

Excessive use of laxatives can result in some serious health problems of its own. It can become impossible for a person to experience a regular bowel movement without the use of a laxative. The rectum is forcing out waste, it can often suffer skin tearing, which causes bleeding and the potential risk of infection that is caused by waste coming talking to the open tears around the rectal area. One can become seriously dehydrated and weak, unable to function in a normal manner.

Numerous people have claimed that taking laxatives will expedite weight loss and make maintaining a low body weight possible. This information shouldn't be trusted or believed, which is flat-out wrong. In truth, using laxatives to shed pounds could be tantamount to an eating disorder, much like bulimia. The biggest difference is that bulimics use purgatives to ensure they are vomit up the food they eat and force any that stays down out from the system by a laxative action while using laxatives is slightly milder and doesn't usually involve vomiting.

Using a laxative for a prolonged time also can cause nausea and induce vomiting; your whole system will be unbalanced. Medical help likely would be necessary to wean a long-term laxative abuser, and if fortunate, potentially correct any damage.

There are those people who may say that using laxatives is a fast way to shed weight. Abusing laxatives, or other substance, is an unhealthy way to achieve anything, and the people who claimed that laxatives are a fast track to weight loss are only perpetuating a potential harmful myth.

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