Summer is coming and we all want to lose weight, including thinner! While the media are full of all kinds of promotional schemes, health authorities recall the health risks of dieting and renew the recommendations of good sense.
All candidates for weight loss, even thinner!
According to a survey by the National Health Security Agency (Anses)conducted in 2007 (Inca study), over 30% of women "normal" weight and 15% of women "thin" had followed a diet during the year or in the year preceding the survey.
face |
As for Nutrinet study, it shows that "nearly two out of three women of normal weight are dieting and 27% of normal weight men say they want to lose weight. »
In other words, this "drive for thinness" concerns everyone.
Worried, the authorities have conducted an expertise to assess risks related to the monitoring of dieting. The results published in 2010 pointed "the fact that dieting practiced without recommendation or followed by a specialist, could present a risk to health. »
With the approach of summer, it is important to remember that finding and warnings that result.