Is Water Fasting Safe To Lose Weight?

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JAKARTA - To lose weight, there are several diet programs that can be chosen to do. One of them is water fasting or fasting with water.

The water-fasting diet method only involves consuming water without food for a certain period. During water-fasting, a person usually consumes about 2 to 3 liters of water.

This fast is usually done within a few hours to more than one day. Water fasting if done properly will provide many benefits for the body.

In addition to helping to lose weight, this method can provide the benefits of reducing the risk of various diseases. Starting from diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

However, despite having many benefits, water speeding is not completely safe to do. Especially if you do it for more than 24 hours.

Quoting the Medical News Today page, to do water-fasting, you should first discuss it with health experts. This must be done so that the water-fasting time span can be adjusted to the body's abilities of each individual.

It should also be noted that water speeding does lose weight, but not only fat, there is also a decrease in muscle mass. This muscle mass breaking cannot be allowed to continue, because it can cause muscle weakness.

Therefore, the implementation of water speed must be monitored by medical authorities and should not be done for too long. This is because it can have an impact on body health.

Reporting from VeryWell Fit, there are also groups of people who are strongly not recommended to do water fasting. They are people with chronic kidney disease, people with diabetes, have ulcers or GERD, pregnant and lactating mothers, to children and adolescents under 18 years of age.