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Thousands of high school wrestlers across the country have to cut weight to make it to their desired weight class, and it can be a dangerous and difficult process if not done correctly.

Here's a look at five tips for safe and healthy weight-cutting for high school wrestlers:

1) Eat six small meals each day: Obviously, maintaining a healthy and balanced diet is the best way to maintain a good weight. You're going to want to eat six small meals each day, or one small meal every few hours. You should have a small meal once every four hours. This will help to keep your metabolism up.

2) Cut the carbs: For breakfast, eat a small bowl of oatmeal with a side of egg whites and a cup of tea for a drink.

This will start your day off right and keep you full until lunch. Once lunch and dinner roll around, you're going to want to skip the bread and go for lean meats like chicken and fish. Cut back on fried foods and fats, and go heavy on fruits, veggies, greens and salads.

3) Sweating it out: If you're on a tight deadline to lose weight before a big tournament, you can sweat out a ton of water weight by running while wearing a hooded sweatshirt and sweatpants.

This is much safer than other methods that some wrestlers use, like wearing a garbage bag in a sauna. Severe dehydration can have fatal results, so you should have supervision when engaging in this method. Sitting in a sauna or hottub isn't terrible for you as long as you skip the plastic garbage bag outfit that would make you sweat at a dangerous level.

It should be noted that Mike Dolce, a nutritionist and former contestant on "The Ultimate Fighter," does not recommend sauna use.

According to a Yahoo! Sports report, Dolce said "The guys who use the sauna to cut ten or twelve pounds, you're forcing your body to expel so much water so quickly that it's not discerning what water is safe to cut from the system and what water isn't. It's just taking it from wherever, and it becomes dangerous. That's where you see guys who don't recover from their weight cut. They look sluggish in their fight, and they defeat the whole purpose of all the training and the conditioning from their fight camp."

4) Natural Laxatives: If you're just a few pounds off your desired mark the night before a weigh-in, taking a natural laxative will help to clear out the six to seven pounds of waste material inside your bowels.

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