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Your body is your temple, and as such it does you well to understand the impact of many things you likely have or are thinking of trying. There is no denying that men and women have different bodies or that they react differently in some cases to the same stimuli. With that in mind let's take a look at some of the things women frequently undergo or involve themselves in and how their body reacts to them. It is worth noting that not every single woman will respond the same, these are in some part generalizations that apply to most woman, but certainly not every single one.

Almost all women go on a diet at some point. Whether it is to squeeze into a special dress, lose the baby weight, or just feel better about the way you look does not matter, most women will take a stab at the wright loss game. The problem is many women want to lose weight fast and fall victim to any number of fad diets, lately the Master Cleanse and numerous clones of it are the most popular. These diets promise to deliver weight loss by having you scale back and undergo highly restrictive diets in which toy live on as few calories as possible to still be able to function.

You sure will lose weight in heartbeat, but the problem is you start by losing water weight. Then you burn fat, but the brain is pretty good at its job and realizes that when fat is rapidly being burned off it cannot allow that and begins slowing down your metabolism. Once that happens you start burning lean muscle tissue which actually makes your body fat ratio higher than before you started the diet even though you lost weight. Then there is the issue that after several days Omega-3 fats in the brain can decrease which can lead to depression as these brain is about 30% Omega-3 fats. Is all of that worth dropping a few pounds of fat?

With women being busier than ever sleep is always at a premium and more often than not the sacred eight hours of down time is cut to just a few good hours if any at all. Losing sleep will not only make you tired and cranky, it can lead to weight gain and even make it harder for you to think. When you skimp on sleep your brain starts looking for energy and the signal goes out to begin consuming carbs and sugars. Those can lead to weight gain if taken in excess. Your brain is also distracted to some degree searching for energy which when coupled with being cranky makes concentrating on complex tasks more difficult. Finally lack of sleep leads to a lower production of growth hormones which is

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