The risksAssociated With the Fad Diets, Dieting and Other Weight Loss Products.

IA diet designed to promote healthy weight loss promotes a weight loss of no more than one kilo — or one percent of total body weight/a week. Medical authorities recommend that losing weight at such a rate reduces risk of health problems that have been associated with more rapid weight loss (greater than one and a half kilos per week). The doctors at the Athenaeum Spa can help you monitor this weight loss. Some people may lose weight at a slightly higher rate. However, a rapid weight loss of more than two kilos a week is unhealthy and should be avoided.

Fad diets that ignore the principles of the Dietary Guidelines may result in short term weight loss, but may do so at the risk of your health. How you go about managing your weight has a lot to do with your long-term success. Unless your health is seriously at risk due to complications from being overweight or obese, gradual weight loss should be your rule — and your goal.  The Body shape clinic at the Athenaeum Spa is the ideal solution.

Many women look for quick and easy solutions to their weight problems. They find it hard to believe in this age of scientific innovations and medical miracles that an effortless weight-loss method doesn't exist. 

So they succumb to quick-fix claims like "Eat All You Want and Still Lose Weight!" or "Melt Fat Away While You Sleep!" And they invest their hopes (and their money) in all manner of pills, potions, gadgets, and programs that hold the promise of a slimmer, happier future. Some pills may help control the appetite, but they can have serious side effects. (Amphetamines, for instance, are highly addictive and can have an adverse impact on the heart and central nervous system.) Other pills too, are utterly worthless. The Athenaeum Spa in Malta does not encourage the use of fad diets or use of pills.

 Any claims that you can lose weight effortlessly are false. The only proven way to lose weight is either to reduce the number of calories you eat or to increase the number of calories you burn off through exercise. Most experts recommend a combination of both.

There is no product available NOW OR IN THE FUTURE that substitutes for proper diet/exercise techniques. If you remember this, you've learned more than 95% of the people who are currently pursuing physical improvement. KNOWLEDGE IS KEY!