Very low calorie diets - NHS
www.nhs.uk › very-low-calorie-dietsVery low calorie diets are less likely to be nutritionally complete as they provide far fewer calories than needed to maintain a healthy weight. The recommended daily calories are 2,500 for men and 2,000 for women. It is not an easy diet to follow. Side effects can include: feeling hungry feeling low on energy a dry mouth constipation or diarrhoea
Very-low-calorie diet - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-low-calorie_dietA very-low-calorie diet (VLCD), also known as semistarvation diet and crash diet, is a type of diet with very or extremely low daily food energy consumption. Often described as a fad diet, it is defined as a diet of 800 kilocalories (3,300 kJ) per day or less. Modern medically supervised VLCDs use total meal replacements, with regulated formulations in Europe and Canada which contain the recomme…