Ridiculous -- and Ineffective -- Diets

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chucksheen — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:50:51 GMT

1st solution?:

Change how you see, not how you look.

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watercuregal — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:24:17 GMT

I personally love the cabbage soup diet =-P I make the soup using veggies from my organic garden and a seasoned salt and dried onions instead of the onion soup mix. Each day the food routine is a little different. Most people only dream of eating this amount of veggies in a weeks time. It is never boring, who can't do a diet for a week? And for me a guarantee of losing 5 "real" pounds of fat each time I do it. How do I know I am losing fat? I had a gall bladder attack the fourth day after eating only 1 tbs of butter in all that time. This is the real problem with the cabbage soup diet... you lose fat too fast and it will aggrivate a gallbladder full of stones in a heartbeat! Modern medical guys will try to tell you that you can live well w/o the gall bladder but I figure the Creator knows better so I learned to do a gall bladder cleanse and got about 1 and 1/2 cup of stones out over a years time.

I did the CSD one week a month (10 months) and a gall bladder cleanse every 2nd month, a week or so after the soup. Now 50 pounds lighter and I have kept it off for a couple years. I do the CSD every so often cuz I think it is super healthy veggy wise. I eat very little processed food so the sea salt in it is not a problem, especially if you drink a good amount of water(watercure formula). I have eliminated processed and refined(corrupted) foods and only allow myself carbs with starch or sugar 1 time a day, eaten with a meal all within an hour. This eliminated the cravings that weaken willpower, so no real desire to eat junk or snack. Also I think that if your intestinal flora are healthy the gas problem is much less noticable so a probiotic to get the gut in shape may be called for. It is not a reason to not try it.

For those who are not able to follow a gall bladder cleanse or a daily dose of lemons and olive oil this may be a good one to pass up. PS... I too love the mastercleanse, what a revelation! you won't die w/o food every day...

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sue17 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:36:34 GMT

Hilarious!! People need to realize that they don't need to diet, they just need good health!

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jerzyjewel — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:59:42 GMT

So much for not putting a SPIN on things.

First off, “The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You to Know About” is a diet I just completed, and I can tell you that you DO NOT INGEST URINE!!!!

Hey, if you need to make a point, at least you should be honest about it.

I've tried a ton of diets for over 20 years with limited success. Most were hard and punishing to do and I would fail eventually. Others starved you, or were boring to do.

At least with “The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You to Know About”, I lost over 45 pounds in 4 months and it was virtually EFFORTLESS. And during the whole thing, I ever once had to ingest urine.

I've tried this 'healthy eating' approach advocated here, and while it may be easy for a lot of you, it was not easy for a meat and potatos guy like me. When I eat say brocoli, I throw up. Gag reflex baby. Some of us just can't eat what we know we should.

But “The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You to Know About” was easy to do and I still got to enjoy eating. I'm now at 196 pounds, which is 50 lbs lighter from my 246 just a few months ago. I'm 48 and had not been below 200 since I was in my 20's. So I don't think it should be on this 'silly diet' list.

That's my opinion and it is fact. (ingesting urine...oh brother).

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Islander — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:24:22 GMT

::sigh::

I don't usually do this, but I just can't stand to read it one more time.

It's LOSE, folks. LOSE, LOSE LOSE.

LOSE = the opposite of GAIN.

LOOSE = the opposite of TIGHT.

Thank you for your attention. We now return you to your regular programming.

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rajsanand — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:42:30 GMT

DR. MERCOLA ARE YOU LISTENING??,

Looks like you "skimmed" through this article while including it.

This article is overflowing with misleading propaganda statements like "has been found to cause" less than ideal".

Many have pointed out the Benjiman Fiengold Diet which has not only been wrongly included but also the outrageous statement that "it's generally not wise to adopt this regimen. Critics warn against teaching children that food can dictate performance and behavior, and depriving them of appropriate professional help from doctors."

This statment goes againts everything mercola.com stands for. I am very disappointed with this article.

The BIGGEST IRONY. They even blast the Blood Type diet, which is very similiar to the nutritional typing diet of Dr. Mercola. When i say similiar Dr. mercola Nutrition typing is one step ahead and more accurate.

But still I am sure if this writer had known about Nutrition Typing She would have blasted it too. I think I should write to her and tell her to update the article to include her "view" on Nutritional typing.

I think that would be fun, then I am sure you will do something about this article. Infact I am off to doing that and I implore everyone else to go that website and request them to update that article to include NT too.

I am very dissappointed. I was just disheartened by which has started accepting "other" authors (apart from mike adams) and there is one David Guitirez(I may have got his last name spelling wrong). Who keeps submitting good articles but once in a while he puts in an article about coke which reeks of PR. He also keeps "advertising" health products which actually have something bad in them like color or something(not something dangerous like MSG). It is very sad to see the quality of such site drop.

We really trust and depend on sites like these to give us the "real news" The truth. :-((

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Conscious Evolution — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:24:42 GMT

I have to defend the Master Cleanser on this one. My friends and I have had nothing but great success with this cleanse. If you live a healthy lifestyle or make the transition to one than you will only gain muscle and healthy fat after you ease off this cleanse. I feel better than ever every time I do the Master cleanser and my friends say the same thing. The reason I think it gets attacked so much is because it works wonders! Of course if you switch back to cake and ice cream your going to gain weight in any situation no matter what! I greatly admire and respect Dr Mercola... however I maintain that he is not on point when it comes to the Master Cleanser. For the years I, my friends and family have used it, it has done nothing but created a positive environment for our health and conscious wealth.

"Life is not an eternal search for God; Life is an eternal expression of God."

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Sray — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:16:56 GMT

One of my friends is a retired school psychologist, and he tells me that he sometimes could raise the IQ of a middle school child by as much as 10 points in a week or so by teaching her/him "The Quieting Reflex". He said kids love it and that in his 40 years working with kids, nothing else was nearly as effective. It takes 6 seconds to perform, and adults also benefit. Numerous sites explaining how to do it. Adults benefit too.

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Kpawsuh — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:00:06 GMT

I would have to agree that many of these "Diets" are total crap. However, my wife changed her eating habits, started exercising, and tried following every healthy alternative and she simply couldnt lose the weight she put on as a result of birth control pills, poor eating habits, lack of exercise and three children (as a result of quiting the birth control). I watched her try everything including Mercolas stuff. Nothing worked. Then she tried the “The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You to Know About”. No it isn't drinking pregnant women's pee. Get real. She is injecting HCG, a hormone present in all folks, but one that is enhanced during pregnancy. She has lost 40 pounds in 3 months. She feels much healthier, she has lost many many inches. She went from a size 28 to a size 16. She still has about another 60 pounds to go, but for those folks which nothing has worked sometimes you need to try something different. I would think that the folks on this site would be a little more acceptable of ideas that are outside of the norm. My thought is If she stayed at 100+ pounds overweight she would be dead sooner. Anything that gets her down to a healthy weight is a good thing. She has changed to healthy diet and lifestyle, but couldn't lose the weight. If she gets to a healthy weight, she can maintain since she has the correct diet and lifestyle now.

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www.chi-mester — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:50:58 GMT

pff, it's sick maan!

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Joan B — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:13:18 GMT

If you have not read and tried "The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You To Know About", you are missing the one approach that could solve your weight loss problems forever. Thousands of us are using this method with great success and very little discomfort. HCG is indeed extracted from the urine of pregnant women, but you are not "ingesting the urine". Many medications have unsavory sounding origins - antibiotics come from mold, for example.

Being open minded means you must take a good look at an idea before you condemn it. Try putting HCG diet into your search engine and do a little honest exploring before you reject this approach. Dr Simeon's manuscript "Pounds and Inches" is widely available on the internet and is must reading for anyone who seriously wants to lose weight. The HCG diet has been a miracle for me.

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TracyB — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:36:02 GMT

Diets like Atkins, etc, don't help people lose weight in a healthy way and keep the weight off? Come on. Tell that to the ppl I know who've lost 100+ pounds - and kept it off. Or me, now almost 30lbs lighter.

Like Julieanne said, "diet" just refers to what you eat. Atkins (and other low-carb plans) are meant to be lifestyle changes, not quick-fix diets. You find the level of carbs that works for you - and you stick with it. It's a WOE (Way of Eating), not a "diet" as most people use the term - something to go "on" and "off" of. It is a lifestyle change.

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Lisajane — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:26:13 GMT

I recently found out that I have candida and I had to go on a strict no dairy, wheat, legumes, seeds, nuts, starch, high-carb, fruit diet. I FEE BETTER THEN EVER! Lots of good fat (homemade butter, coconut oil), pasture raised/grass fed meat, oily fish, rich homemade broths, free range eggs and low carb vegetables. This diet can help to heal any ailment! (:

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LadyPam — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:09:34 GMT

They left out MY new fad diet: The D-E-C Diet. (buy the book, the cd and the dvd explaining how to open the book). It means Don't. Eat. CAKE.

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Julieanne — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:16:04 GMT

Why does the word' diet' mean weight loss to some people? Diet just means what you eat - good or bad. The 'eating by your blood type' diet has nothing to do with losing weight,it is just a recommendation for general good health. Whether it works or not, I don't know, although, having read the whole book, it makes a lot of sense to me.And it is not just about whether to eat meat or not - it's a lot more complicated than that.