Most women, and a growing number of men at least once in their lives were on a diet and tried to get rid of fat and excess weight. If we add to this the arrival of summer, it is not surprising that a strong, speedy diets have many followers.

However, before you treat body with one such ‘torture’, think carefully about the advantages and disadvantages of a low-calorie diet.

Imperative – to burn calories!
The common perception of weight loss is to burn more calories, and in order to achieve that many are turning to aerobic exercises. However, although undoubtedly used in the prevention of cardiovascular disease, such exercises, such as running, burns relatively few calories and increase muscle mass loss. This effect is even more evident if aerobic exercise is ‘combined’ with low-calorie diet. Here’s why!

For aerobic exercise, your body uses energy from carbohydrates and fats. If the body before exercise is not supplied with carbohydrate, it adapts to new situation and gets carbohydrates from amino acids. This process – catabolism – resulting in a loss of muscle mass.Therefore, if the person is on the Low calorie diet and practicing high-intensity aerobic exercise, loss of muscle mass is further accelerated.

Low calorie diet – the enemy of weight loss!
Apparently it may seem that a person starts to lose weight, but this way is detrimental to the health and vitality of the organism. With a low calorie diet the body gets thicker faster because there is no muscle that burned energy that entered.

Loss of muscle mass or fat will not stop, because some tissues, such as brain, need it for glucose. Amino acids from muscle protein can be converted into glucose, and fat can not. Therefore, people which are on the Low calorie diet, instead of losing fat, can suffer from loss of muscle tissue.