Re: What is a starvation diet?

Some medical doctors in the past (1930-1960, maybe even today), when doing their experiments to prove that "fasting works", have called fasting a starvation diet. Which creates a lot of confusion and is a bad (and ignorant) way to describe it imo.

True starvation diet (to me) is eating a highly restricted calorie intake each and every day. In this way, your digestion is still working and you're not getting the benefits from fasting, but you will still lose weight. Eventually, it would be possible to deplete your reserves and actually start starving for real, but I think you'd know it.

The most common starvation diet we have today is the junk food, Sugar coated, fast food, microwaved, Aspartame diet we have today. They are taking on calories but very little nutrients. This leads to reduced energy (couch potatoes) and often chronic disease. How many kids these days have diabetes, cancer, and even arthritis! When I was going up, we had entire grades of 300-400 children and not one had any chronic disease, yet it has become common place. So this is possibly the worst kind of starvation.


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