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Some extreme brides-to-be are using feeding tubes to restrict their calorie intake and slim down before the big day.

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How far would you go to lose weight?

Would you eat only through a feeding tube inserted in your nose? As unusual (and inconvenient) as that sounds, the feeding-tube diet, also known as the K-E diet, is the latest fad among brides who are looking to slim down before their big day.

The diet trend employs the same kind of feeding tube that doctors use in the hospital to nourish psychiatric patients who refuse to eat or those with physical conditions that prevent them from eating normally; coma and stroke patients depend on feeding tubes to survive, for instance.

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For weight-loss purposes, you dont need to be hospitalized, but you do have to live with a nasogastric tube inserted through your nose and threaded into your stomach. A protein pack feeds your body through the tube, by dispensing drops of a liquid mix of nutrients but no carbs totaling about 800 calories a day. Experts recommend that healthy adult women consume about 2,000 to 2,400 calories daily.

People use it drop significant amounts of weight or just to trim off a couple of extra pounds before a big event. At first I decided not to do it for people who just want to lose a few pounds, Dr. Oliver Di Pietro, who offers 10-day versions of the diet for $1,500 at his Bay Harbor Islands, Fla., office, told the New York Times. But then I thought, why should I say 5 or 10 pounds are not enough? People want to be perfect.

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Medically speaking, the diet works by thrusting the body into the first stages of starvation. When you cut calories that drastically, the body responds by going into a state of ketosis, in which it starts to burn stored fat rather than consuming sugar to keep normal body functions going. In fact, each night, as you sleep, your body goes into a mild state of ketosis (which may explain in part why people who dont get enough sleep tend to be heavier). However, if this process is intentionally triggered, as with a severely calorie-restricted diet, the process can start to eat away at muscle.

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The Feeding-Tube Wedding Diet? Why It's a Bad Idea

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