Risks/Dangers of the diet

In the first days of the potato diet, you lose pounds particularly quickly because potatoes contain a lot of potassium, which has a dehydrating effect. This means that mainly water is excreted. Due to the calorie reduction, the pounds also drop at first.

However, the diet contains far too few calories so that the body’s own muscles are also reduced. If one falls again into old patterns after the Diät and nourishes themselves with clearly more fats, sugar and altogether more calories, the danger of a Jojo effect is very high. One can even gain so much that one weighs more after the diet than before. In the long term, the one-sided potato diet leads to a lack of minerals, vitamins, fats and above all iron.Severe deficiency symptoms and dangerous anaemia can develop. In this case you should definitely visit your family doctor.

Criticism of the diet

The potato diet belongs to the group of mono diets, where one or a few foods are the main focus. One-sided diets basically carry the danger that not all the nutrients, vitamins and trace elements necessary for the body can be absorbed through food. If fats are missing, fat-soluble vitamins cannot be sufficiently absorbed from the intestines.

If deficiency symptoms such as headaches, lack of concentration or a feeling of weakness occur, you should definitely consult your family doctor. Iron deficiency can also lead to iron deficiency-related anaemia. Deficiency symptoms occur when a one-sided diet is followed for several weeks to months.

The potato diet is based on a low protein intake and few calories per day. This means that over time the body’s “hunger metabolism” breaks down not only fatty tissue but also muscle, which is fundamentally bad for long-term consumer success. Potatoes are basically satiating foods which, especially in combination with curd cheese or eggs, can be absorbed well in the intestine due to their biological value.

Nevertheless, one-sided diets often lead to ravenous appetite attacks, since one may only eat very few foods and the list of forbidden foods is all the larger. Such ravenous hunger attacks can lead to cheating or breaking off the diet. If one falls after end of a so radical Di?t with few calories daily fast into old nourishing patterns, one suffers frequently a Jojo effect.