THE DANGERS OF MIRACLE DIETS WITHOUT ACCOMPANIMENT BY A PROFESSIONAL NUTRITIONIST

Abstract

The search for the perfect body, encouraged by the standards imposed by the media and society, lead to the exaggerated practice of physical exercises, inappropriate and unfounded diets, use of supplementation without professional guidance, use of anabolic steroids and unnecessary aesthetic procedures. Certainly, any excess in relation to body image may result in the appearance of some disorders. Check the dangers of miracle diets without monitoring the nutritionist professional. An integrative review was carried out based on the PICo strategy. The search for articles was carried out in the PubMed, Scielo, Lilacs databases, using the descriptors in Portuguese and English: “Food, diet and nutrition”, “dietary diet” and “weight loss and eating disorders”, together with the operator boolean "AND". Access to the databases was carried out from September to October 2021. 8750 articles were found and after applying the inclusion criteria, 12 articles remained. It was noticed that increasingly, there is an exposure of miracle diets and menus performed by people, indicating ways to achieve weight loss. Miraculous diets have quick results, but ineffective due to lower calorie intake, they cannot be maintained for a long time, often they return to the previous weight or even gain more weight.