What is water fasting? Know its advantages and disadvantages from experts.

Nowadays people follow many types of diets to lose weight or for every kind of medical condition. Water fasting is one of them. But can drinking only water be harmful for health? Let's know from the experts how this diet can benefit and harm the body and for how many days can one follow this diet.

 

Nowadays people try many ways to lose weight. This includes exercise as well as proper diet. Nowadays keto and many other types of diets are quite trending. Which should be followed according to your choice. Liquid diet is also included in all these, in which only liquid things are consumed. Similarly, there is also a water diet.

 

As the name suggests, water diet means that only water is consumed. But is this correct because our body needs all kinds of nutrients to function properly, so does water fasting benefit the body or is it harmful and what mistakes can cause serious damage to health during this diet?

 

 

What do the experts say?

Priya Paliwal, Chief Dietician at Shri Balaji Action Medical Institute, Delhi, said that water diet is a diet in which a person drinks only water for some time and does not eat any hard food, it is also commonly called water fasting. Water diet can be adopted sometimes to detox the body, lose weight and give rest to the digestive system, but it should be followed very thoughtfully and for a limited time only. This diet can help in detoxifying the body, along with this it can be easy to control hunger and insulin level can also improve.

 

Disadvantages of water fasting

Some people also adopt it for religious fasting or mental clarity. But it also has many disadvantages. Staying on water for a long time can weaken the body, problems like dizziness, fatigue, low blood pressure and falling blood sugar can occur due to this diet. This diet can be dangerous especially for people suffering from diabetes, blood pressure or heart related problems. Before starting the water diet, it is very important to get a health checkup done and know the needs of your body. It should always be done on the advice of an expert. During this time, one has to take a lot of rest, avoid exercising and understand the symptoms visible in the body. If there is a problem like weakness, nausea or headache, then stop the diet immediately and eat something healthy.

For how long and how should it be done?

Experts say that this diet cannot be followed for more than one or two days. It is very important to follow this diet only under medical supervision. Before adopting this diet, it is important to know that this diet is not for everyone and it will be beneficial only if it is followed properly and for a limited time, otherwise it can cause serious harm to health. It is most sensible and safe to adopt this type of diet only after consulting a doctor.