Another Dangerous “Diet”

I recently heard about the KIMKINS diet, which is not only one of the most ridiculous I’ve ever heard of, but is also a total scam.

The diet consisted of eating 500 calories per day, with most of these calories consisting of protein-based foods. Fats and carbohydrates were practically eliminated. The diet forbids most fruits, nuts, and milk-based products.

This diet description is really a recipe for complete malnutrition. Fiber and fat are essential for maintaining good health. Additionally, the diet’s website actually recommends taking a laxative to help lose weight! The body cannot maintain a diet that low in calories.

Some people paid money to join the Kimkins program and lost a lot of weight very quickly. Not surprisingly, most people also had very bad side effects, including fainting, liver damage, hair loss, and missed periods; all effects associated with starvation. Many people tried to get refunded after experiencing these effects, but instead of receiving a refund, they were banned from the program and no longer allowed access to the Kimkins website.

The issue isn’t completely the diet itself, but the person promoting it.

The founder, “Kimmer,” claimed have lost 198 pounds in under a year, meaning about 4 pounds per week (if “Kimmer” ’s story had been true, I’d go on about the fact that this weight loss rate is extremely fast and extremely unhealthy). To join the Kimkins diet, there was an enrollment fee to be a member and to receive diet planning advice. But she banned members who reported bad results. She encouraged what is essentially anorexia, and promoted it under the falsehood that she herself had lost weight and kept it off using this method.

“Kimkim” is actually Heidi Diaz, a morbidly obese woman. She recently confessed that she had not actually lost weight and that she had tricked many people into giving her their money.

There truly is no get-slim-quick method out there. Most diets like this will cause significant damage to your health.