Probably, almost every woman at least once in my life "took a diet", trying to lose a few pounds. Someone managed to do it, but someone, on the contrary, tried to lose weight more than once or twice, without achieving the desired result. And, it turns out, such unsuccessful attempts did not bring any benefits to the body, but, on the contrary, harmed him, according to the Internet edition for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. Net As scientists from the Fred Hancinson Research Center in Seattle (USA) have found, the periodic attempts to lose weight, consisting in the refusal for a more or less long period of time from certain types of foods and a reduction in the total caloric content of the daily diet, lead to impairment of the immune system.

In the blood of women who tried to lose weight for several years, experts found a reduction in the number of so-called natural killers - blood cells, responsible for the destruction of microorganisms entering the body.

In this case, the degree of decrease in the number of killers was directly related to the number and "intensity" of women's attempts to go on a diet - the least of all these cells were in the blood of women "trying to lose weight" every few weeks.

"Of course, the normal weight is one of the most important indicators of human health," said Dr. Cornelia Ulrich, one of the authors of the study, in an interview with "BBC". - Nevertheless, we must not forget that you also need to lose weight with the mind. And the wrong tactics of treating excess weight can not only not give the desired results, but, on the contrary, harm health ".

Medicus. En.