Diets cause cancer and diabetes

The diet can be deadly. Compliance with strict diet often leads to the development of heart disease, diabetes and even cancer .

So say scientists from the United States. Their study of the impact of diet on the body showed the following results. Excessive calorie counting and control of causes that the body begins to produce in large quantities stress hormone - Cortisol . Cortisol   adversely affects the body, weakening the immune system and making it susceptible to disease.

Chronic stress that accompanies the process of struggle against excess weight is directly linked to the subsequent development of diseases of the cardiovascular system. The researchers warn that this factor can not be ignored in any case. The consequences may be too severe.

The corresponding study was organized and carried out by American scientists at the University of California, San Francisco. Also of great assistance provided by experts of the University of Minnesota. A team of researchers examined 121 women. Three times a week they reduced their daily diet to 1200 calories. For comparison, the average rate of the recommended calories for a woman a day - 2000. After that measured the levels in the body Cortisol . It was found that in three weeks the start of the program there was a significant increase in stress hormone   in the test organisms.

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