In search for a thinner figure people throughout history were willing to undertake the most extreme treatments and methods for losing weight. Desire for quick loss of weight can lead to heart problems, osteoporosis and loss of muscle mass, but it can also seriously compromise health, according to world nutritionists. Experts also recommend caution with all diets that rely on some “miraculous” tea, beverage or pills.

These products can be useful, but you should not solely rely on them. If a person does not changes dietary habits and doesn’t start to work out, there will be no results. Any diet can be harmful if restrictive regime of diet lasts too long. Diet for losing weight should not last longer than three weeks, after which a break should be made. In the case of high protein diets a break should be made for the protection of liver and kidneys. Strict diets exclude some groups of food, such as carbon hydrates, because they lead to loss of nutritional ingredients in the diet and compromise health. Beside, strict diets lead to yo-yo effect: a person follows them for a month and then continues with the old diet regime.

Million will in the beginning of holidays turn to diet that are promoted by celebrities in order to melt the kilograms that they gained during the holidays. But this new research shows that popular techniques for losing weight will most likely end up in failure. Average fast diet lasts only 15 days, and 35 percent of questioners say that they finished the diet with more kilograms then when they started. In state of desperation people are prepared to use the dumbest and most bizarre to achieve the desired weight. The following 10 most extreme diets I don’t recommend to anyone.