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Is it true that being on a restricted calorie diet for a few years, the body will have truoble to gain back fat once back on a normal diet?

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Starvation Diet: No. Quite the opposite. Eating normally will cause rapid weight gain and fat deposition since the body will not have a good sense of metabolism.

Answered 4/10/2014

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A member asked:

Is it true that being on a restricted calorie diet for a few years, the body will have truoble to gain back fat once back on a normal diet?

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Dr. Robert Killian answered

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