What's Wrong with Diet? What's the Role of Aesthetics?

Chapter 3. The desire to lose weight quickly

What we're researching: What's left out of fast weight loss?

What's new: What is the role of homeostasis in weight loss?

What we will learn: How do you know when your body is lacking nutrients?

1. Whatever type of food we choose, it is clear that we need to eat to maintain energy homeostasis in our bodies. When there is a lack of fuel supplies, the feeling of hunger can arise, and when there is an excess, it can be suppressed. In the control of hunger, homeostasis plays a decisive role (Atkinson R.L. et al., 2003)[1].

2. Any change outside the human body, especially a rapid one, such as a change in eating behavior through any restrictions, is a trigger for homeostasis to replenish the required level of nutrients (Author).

3. Homeostasis guards the human body. Someone might ask, what's wrong with wanting to lose weight quickly? No, there is nothing wrong with desire itself. But in terms of losing weight quickly, this is physiologically fundamentally incorrect. And it's also wrong to lose weight. Why? Anyone who wants to lose weight quickly, or to lose weight in general, does not take into account the purpose of the physiological process of homeostasis in a human.

4. Fast weight loss. What are the signs of rapid weight loss? Reducing portions, and calorie restrictions. Restriction in certain products, or their complete exclusion (I fr. 7. 6–10; 8. 4). Also the practice of eating one "exclusively one healthy product." This practice consists of the so-called mono-diets: buckwheat, kefir, egg, cabbage, etc. In response to such a dictate, the human body, unnoticed by our consciousness, immediately goes into economic mode.

5. Economy mode. When there is not enough energy, unconscious processes are automatically launched inside a person. They direct the bulk of energy to maintain life in the human body so that it does not die (I fr. 17.3). The remaining energy reserve can be spent on functions less important for human life while dietary restrictions exist. These findings are based on research by expert Stephen Woods*:

• When enough energy is supplied from the circulation, the cell can exert itself to grow and repair itself and perform its unique functions. When energy is scarce, non-essential activities are weakened and energy is directed towards simply maintaining life (author's italics) (Woods S.K., Ramsay D.S. 2011) [2].

At the same time, homeostasis regulates the sense of appetite so that a person eats more than he needs to perform the body's unique functions, including growth and repair.

• Regulation in most cases is proactive and provides what may be needed before any need arises. In this light, nutrition can be viewed as the accumulation of sufficient energy-rich nutrients to meet future metabolic needs (ibid., author's italics).

Therefore, homeostasis has a powerful influence on a person's eating behavior until a sufficient supply of energy is accumulated.

* Stephen K. Woods, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Director of the Obesity Research Center. Dr. Woods serves on the Obesity Advisory Committee at Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Long Range Research Planning Committee at the University of Cincinnati. He is a frequent special reviewer for several National Institutes of Health research sections.

6. Energy reserve mode. Of course, a human who decides to quickly lose weight does not realize this, since the influence of homeostasis manifests itself in unconscious processes (II fr. 10. 6). He may think it is his control over his food intake that has weakened. In this case, he makes additional efforts so as not to break down (I fr. 7.7, 10). However, any human lives in society and its influence can provide additional opportunities for energy reserves.