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Very-low-calorie diets are used for people with BMIs greater than 30 who are highly motivated but have not had success with more conservative plans. False True

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Very low calorie diet, a diet with extremely low daily consumption of food. It is also known as starvation diet. It is a diet of maximum 800 kilocalories per day. The diet though contain the daily requirements for minerals, vitamins, trace elements, protein and fatty acids. Carbohydrate is almost absent.

The diet is prescribed for rapid weight loss in the people which have body mass index (BMI) of 30 and above.

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