The OMAD Diet Is Considered Risky For The Body's Metabolism

Health expert dr. Farid Kurniawan, Sp.PD, PhD assessed that efforts to lose weight by implementing the One Meal A Day (OMAD) diet or eating once a day are risky for the body's metabolism. 

"I personally don't agree with One Meal A Day, it's too extreme. It's too dangerous for the body's metabolism," he said at a press conference for the launch of Met-U Prodia in Jakarta on Saturday. 

The internal medicine specialist from the Endocrine, Metabolic, and Diabetes Division of the dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo National General Hospital - Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia recommended a balanced nutritional diet as an alternative. 

"Rather than doing an extreme diet that is clearly dangerous, I suggest just following a balanced nutritional diet," he said. 

"You can eat three times a day with two large portions, snacking or small portions, that's fine. What's important is the right amount and composition. The calories are not excessive, and the composition of carbohydrates, protein, and fat is also right," he explained. 

He emphasized the importance of consistency and duration in implementing a diet to lose weight. 

"No need for strange diets, OMAD diets, ketogenic, OCD. As long as the person does a balanced diet and does it long term, the results are much better," he said. 

"Small steps but consistent. No one wants to be healthy, but only diets for a year," he added. 

Meal planning is also important in implementing a diet to lose weight. The Isi Piringku eating guidelines from the Ministry of Health can be used as a reference in implementing the diet. 

According to the guidelines, every time you eat, half the plate should be filled with staple foods and side dishes and half filled with vegetables and fruits. 

The Isi Piringku guidelines also include an invitation to consume at least eight glasses of water every day, do physical activity for at least 30 minutes every day, and wash hands with soap and water before and after eating. 

The Met-U application launched by Prodia can be used to help make meal plans in implementing a diet. 

In addition, application users can use the Met-U feature to monitor the progress of implementing a diet to lose weight. 

"The use of this application can be for all kinds of parameters. If he wants to intervene in a diet pattern, he can enter what his diet is like. Then weight, he can monitor, enter the initial amount, then every few weeks or days enter it again. So finally he can keep tracking," said Director of IT & Marketing PT Prodia Digital Indonesia Rudy Cahyadi. 

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