magic pill
Marketing Diets
A google search for “diet” returns close to 20 million hits. The vast majority of these are web sites and blogs selling something. A diet book, a diet plan or a diet product.
What makes the diet niche so attractive for marketing?
I just received this email with tips of how to find your niche for online [...]
Colon Cleanse
There are thousands and thousands blogs and web sites that deal with colon cleansing. They claim that we build up toxins, and even have parasites and critters, in the colon that need to be removed. Of course, these sites sell products to help us do so. Plus claiming that cleansing is beneficial for weight loss.
So, [...]
Acai Berry and Kimkins
What do they have in common? Nothing as far as I know. But how come all these Akai Berry blogs and sites use Kimkins as a tag? Is this Heidi Diaz’ new venture? The next internet scam?
Acai Berry is native to Brazil and is presently marketed as the new magic supplement here in the US. [...]
Quick Weight Loss
Isn’t that what we all want?
The fad diet industry is banking on it. Lose 10 pounds in a week! Lose 100 pounds in 5 months! No faster diet, none! Better than gastric bypass!
Sounds good? Apparently, as we keep on paying for new diet fads all the time. Looking for the magic diet/pill/supplement that will take [...]
Diet Addiction
The term addiction is used to describe a recurring compulsion by an individual to engage in some specific activity, despite harmful consequences to the individual’s health, mental state or social life.
Is there such a thing as food addiction? No, not according to the author of Breaking out of Food Jail, Jean Antonello R.N., B.S.N.
People who [...]
Transitioning from a VLCD like Kimkins
I have written several posts where I have pointed out that a starvation diet like Kimkins is not sustainable long term and that most dieters on a VLCD (very low calorie diet) will regain any weight lost.
Of course, I point this out as I do not want anyone to start a diet like Kimkins. In [...]
More weight loss. More mortality.
There is a long term weight loss study done in Finland that shows that people that lost weight had a higher mortality rate than people that didn’t.
The results from the study are really confusing, but they indicate that weight loss is not indicative of better health, at least not when it comes to mortality rate.
To [...]
Kimkins Laxative Abuse
When checking my blog stats, I noticed that many people end up on my blog from a google search on laxatives for weight loss. How sad.
Laxatives are not useful for weight loss. They cause loss of water weight. Not fat loss. The drop on the scale is not permanent. As soon as you replace the [...]
The Making of a Diet Guru
I was googling something today and came across an interesting review of an “anti-diet” book. I will copy one section from the book and while it is copyrighted, I think I may be excused by providing the link to purchase the book: Breaking Out of Food Jail: How to Free Yourself from Diets and Problem [...]
Kimkins Causing Eating Disorders
Kimmer is always saying that ALL overweight people already have an eating disorder - being fat is proof of disordered eating. I don’t agree.
I know many overweight people that do not have what I would call an unhealthy relationship with food. They eat what they want and just don’t care about being heavier than what [...]
