Dieting can cause heart disease, cancer!

LONDON: go on a diet could increase the risk of potentially fatal diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer, a study has found.

The study revealed that controlling your calorie intake produced higher levels of harmful stress hormone cortisol and exposure to the hormone actually made some dieters weight, reports dailymail.co.uk.

Dieting can also damage mental health and many more suffered psychological distress when they were forced constantly counting calories and controlling what they ate.

'Regardless of their success or failure (in the weight loss), if future studies show that diet and stress increases cortisol, doctors may need to rethink recommending their patients to improve health,' the researchers said.

'Chronic stress, and promote weight gain, has been linked to heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer. Diet potentially could add to this burden of stress and its consequences would be better to ignore,' they added.
The study, conducted by the University of California of San Francisco and the University of Minnesota, looked at 121 women who were placed in a standard three weeks on a diet of 1,200 calories per day - about the daily recommended amount of an average woman 2,000 calories.

Each patient was asked a sample of saliva before and after the study to examine the levels of cortisol. The results showed a significant increase amount of the hormone after three weeks in the program.