New research presented at a American Physiological Society conference showed belly fat comes ballooning back after crash dieting. In fact, the attendees at the Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Diseases: Sex-Specific Implications for Physiology conference in Knoxville, Tennessee learned that there are many long-term repercussions to these short-term extreme diets.
Crash diets have been around for more than a century. Women are more likely to fall victim to them than men. They typically promise to rapidly reduce belly fat in a short period of time. Unfortunately, research has shown that they do far more harm than good. In fact, they’re more likely to cause pounds to pack on around the middle than to disappear.