Don't get excited yet. In my opinion this is not healthy, even if you are morbidly (perhaps especially) obese. See, this recuded calorie diet, was 500 calories a day. 500! In case you weren't sure the recomemded daily allowance on calorie intake for an average healthy individual is 2000 calories. This of course isn't exact for everyone. Women don't burn calories as fast as men so yours could be more or less also depending on how active you are. Here is an online calculator in case you are wondering how many calories you should be eating to maintain, gain or loose weight.
I can not imagine only taking in 500 calories a day. I myself try to stay under 1500, but I'm also trying to loose weight. If I go less then this I'm hungry all the time and I am MUCH more likely to binge and of course that binge is going to be on something disgustingly bad for me loaded with fat, sugar and yummy carbs. Take a measly 500 calories a day and add any kind of activity to that and you are likely to pass out just trying to get out of a chair because you're body doesn't have enough nutrition, hence the warning at the end of the article.
After the warning there is a note that even just two weeks of a really low calorie diet can help significantly with diabetes. If you even have the tiniest inkling that you want to try this, TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR. I DO NOT recommend ANYONE try this on their own. You could die, seriously.
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