Health Benefits and Disadvantages of Weight Loss Diets What are the Health benefits of weight loss? There are actually lots of health benefits if we lost weight and stayed within a healthy weight, here are just some of them. Lower risk of developing diabetes and heart problems Staying healthy and active until old age Better quality of life Lesser worries of developing diseases and illnesses What happens if I don’t lose weight the healthy way? Malnutrition If you end up starving yourself or having the wrong way of losing weight you will most likely be deficient of essential vitamins and nutrients and you may not know it but you might end up malnourished. Birth defects There has been research that showed that women who are pregnant during their first trimester and resort to dieting can increase the risk of giving birth with a baby that has neural-tube defects. Depression There are actually people who resort to diet pills in order to lose weight. People into this type of weight loss regimen should be extra careful because according to the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, people who use diet pills have the higher tendencies of having depressive episodes.