Losing weight, maintain weight, sate off the effects of condition are the reasons for most to embarking a new and lasting health and fitness lifestyle. Exercise changes body composition, stamina and strength. But changing food related thoughts and behaviors can be the key to lasting weight loss. Every time you diet to lose weight, you lose lean tissue; therefore, you must decrease caloric intake to avoid subsequent weight gain.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Laxative and weight loss

The word laxative comes from Latin word ‘laxare’, which means to loosen. Laxatives are used to relieve constipation and fall into one of four categories: bulk forming, stimulant, osmotic, and stool softeners.

The belief that laxatives will help weight loss, and prevent weight gain can lead to abuse. People who use laxatives for weight loss are under the assumption that of laxatives speed things along the intestinal track, some food will not be absorbed in the body.

Laxative do not prevent the absorption of calories, but rather they affect the emptying of the large intestine which occurs after the calories have already been absorbed by the small bowel.

Laxative abuse can have a serious side effects on health, many related to low potassium levels (hypokalemia) secondary to watery diarrhea.

Chronic use of laxatives can result in serous sequelae, including loss of the normal colonic peristalsis (laxative dependency) and cathartic colon (loss of normal colon function).

Although several types of laxatives may be used experimentally by patients, in the final analysis, most of these patient end up using laxatives that cause rapid evacuations of the colon.
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