Weight Loss Craze Can Cause Future Problems

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There are so many conflicting reports on the health scene today that if you tried to follow them all you could either end up as a super woman or a complete screwball. Healthy eating is it as healthy as all these so called experts say, or are they sending us on a downward spiral?

Weight loss has become a serious craze urged on by wanting to look good or keeping your heart healthy, the thousands of different diet remedies and healthy eating habits could be causing more harm than good. The latest report is that the levels of blood folate in women is falling, this could lead to serious birth defects in babies. A defect of the brain and spine is the warning given.

The exact causes of the drop are not certain but the low carbohydrate diets that are so popular now could be a factor. High carbohydrate foods such as flour, cereal, and bread products are often fortified with folates but these are not acceptable to the diet conscious woman. Foliate is a natural vitamin B but it is artificial produced in supplements and called folic acid, it is taken orally and particularly beneficial to a pregnant woman.

An 8 to 16 per cent drop in folate levels in childbearing women  has led to an increase in what is called “neural tube” defects such as spina bifida, it is most pronounced in white women, although black women continue to get the least amount overall. Today’s supposedly healthy population maybe the downfall of the future population, so think twice before you embark on diets that reduce all those healthy vitamins that should be in your body.