Weight loss diet food bags see less than 500 calories per day

DUBAI / / Mona Majzaub ate less than 500 calories per day during the last three months, barely a quarter of the recommended daily average person.

Hanzy Catague, 30, is the Phlippines. He took only 300 calories a day for two months, and apart from the odd twinge of hunger, a busy work and social life, he was.

They are two of a growing number of diet to use a replacement product of over-the-counter meals originally developed as a clinical intervention of last resort for patients with morbid obesity.

Very low calorie diets have been around for some time, despite the high success rates and dozens of clinical studies have also been associated with gallstones and metabolic damage.

, Advocates say there is no surer way to lose weight quickly and that the risks of being obese outweigh the potential harm caused by remaining the rapid weight change.

"I do not feel bad about my body," said Ms. Majzaub, 48, of Lebanon. "My mind is clear, I feel full and am losing weight every day."

Woman and woman Majzaub Catague be used once a brand called Nutridiet that is popular under the name Nutrilett in Sweden and Norway.

It is people that are based consume five or six bags of 100 calorie, vitamin-enriched shakes a day in order to lose weight fast without food. Sometimes two or three shocks instead of breakfast or lunch used.

For sale in Dubai from Swedish Health and bags are sold in 120 stores. The company estimates that 5,000 people in Dubai have been trying to shake.

The company is your child in the gold campaign of the city of Dubai, who lost for every pound for six weeks, the people rewarded with an ounce of gold sponsor this week.

"You could say that the GCC countries are already the largest in the world," said Peter Ekstedt, Director General of the Swedish health.

"This is a big problem, and something that was probably derived from an immediate adoption of a Western lifestyle, but without the same opportunities to exercise. However, there is a gradual recognition of this fact, and settings you change."

A survey in a medical journal in 2012 found UAE, the world's fifth largest country, with about 68 percent of the population is overweight. The average resident water eat about 3000 calories per day, while the recommended daily intake for men is 2500 calories for women and 2000.

Dr. Fawad Khan, a consultant in family medicine at Al Noor Hospital, said he did not specifically comment could Nutridiet but said he usually advises patients who did not make for any kind of crash diet.

"Overall, the doctors are not too interested in this kind of plan," he said. "In general, we recommend patients to their lifestyle to change, a balanced diet and regular physical activity."

He said it was often the case that the weight of the population has recovered after the end of the diet. "You can generate a lot of mental symptoms, and can really take a toll on the body. Extreme calorie restriction can sometimes cause muscle wasting, and can affect the kidneys."

Woman Majzaub Nutridiet began shortly after undergoing gastric bypass surgery. Through the combination of surgery and nutrition, who has lost in three months from 117 kg to 97 kg more than 20 kg.

Your goal is to lose another 40 kg, but said it was not particularly depressed.

"I'm lack of food, but I'm in no hurry to eat again," he said. "If there are two or three years to achieve the weight that I want."

Ms. Catague the only 300 to 400 calories per day or less than the drinking recommended by the manufacturer of the daily dose.

She said it took over a week for your body to get used to the diet.

"I was starving, but I'm motivated," he said. "The first 10 days were the hardest. Afterwards you just have to adapt and get used to it. Steps to notice changes immediately., This is the only one that works."

mcroucher@thenational.ae