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While weight loss is something that can happen, it is not sustainable and a majority of the times, it is in a unhealthy way that is bad for the body. Instead, weight loss is through time and consistency. Something magical due to tea or a quick workout will not make that happen especially that quick. Videos and articles tend to use this term for clickbait.

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Well, I believe the answer to if you can lose weight in just 5 days depends on the severity of how much weight you would like to lose. There have been many studies done about dieting and what causes people to lose weight. The most important thing to understand is that to lose weight a calorie deficit is needed. Both meta analysis's done that I will cite, provide much longer term scales than 5 days. For example, one analysis found "Overall, completers lost 7.0 ± 11.0 kg (6.2% ± 9.5%) in the intermittent group and 9.1 ± 9.7 kg (7.7% ± 8.1%)"(Headland), in the span of 6 months. Now later in this paper, they also say "The American Dietetic Association’s Adult Weight Maintenance Evidence-Based Nutrition Practice Guidelines recommend an optimal weight loss target of 0.5 to 1 kg per week" (Headland). So with this context, it certainly is possible lose weight in the time span of 5 days, however the results will be far less significant as well as much more unhealthy if a drastic amount of lost in the 5 days. The two other studies cited provide more evidence or tests done on caloric deficits and how effective they were. In all 3 sources, significant feedback was found in weight lost over the extended amount of time. If it is your goal to lose weight a large amount of weight in 5 days, I would not recommend it. 

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4924195/#sec4-nutrients-08-00354

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8017325/

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/57/16/1035

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This good fact-check provides a lot of strong evidence, but putting it in a more digestible format might help your argument seem stronger. Use your research as evidence to back your claim and not build your claim around the evidence. Hope this helps!

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