The Truth About Diets

We're currently researching various diets and weight loss clinics that promise you everything under the sun just to get you to eat their mini meals, buy their supplements, join their support groups, etc.  As far as we're concerned DIETS DON'T WORK!  Period, end of story.  While it may be necessary to consume fewer calories to lose weight, the fact is that diets, as we know them, help you to lose weight one way...by starving the body and robbing it of the nutrition it needs to function.  Diets often throw the body into starvation mode where it will store any and all food it gets as energy a/k/a fat.  Your body is going to get the nutrition it needs to function in one way or another, even if that means it cannibalizes itself.  Very often when people are on a diet, they lose lean muscle, not fat.

Let's keep it simple.  When the body is properly nourished and is receiving all of the vitamins, trace minerals, amino acids, and other fuel it needs to function, it is a true miracle.  It will actually heal itself.  A person who has a healthy immune system never realizes how many viruses and bacteria are killed off before he or she ever gets sick. However, when the body is clogged with impurities and poisons, the liver becomes overwhelmed and creates fat.  Unless you cleanse your liver and body as a whole, the toxins in your body continue to develop bacteria, attack your immune system, and more. 

Cleansing vs. Diets
When you cleanse your body of impurities, poisons, etc., your liver is able to do the job it was meant to do.  A side effect of cleansing is often the loss of fat.  To learn more about this, visit Cleanse US.  Diets don't address cleansing.  They restrict your caloric intake, tell you to eat this, that, or the other thing...you might lose weight; but as soon as you go back to eating regular meals, the weight comes back on.  Why?  Because the impurities are still in your body!  Let's compare it this way:

Diet	Cleansing
Fat stored to protect the body from impurities Smaller body means increased percentage of impurities Body senses increased level of impurities and goes into emergency fat production = REBOUND!	Fat stored to protect the body from impurities Impurities are released, so the body sheds fat You achieve the best overall health with less fat and more lean muscle.

Not All Cleanses Are Created Equally
During a cleanse, you are often not consuming much food.  You must make sure you are getting all of your essential nutrients.  The cleanse we recommend is one that is supplemented by a mineral drink filled with all of your daily nutrients by Isagenix.  On the other hand, cleanses like the Master Cleanse (also known as The Lemonade Diet because it's restricted to a cocktail of lemon juice, cayenne pepper, maple syrup and water), do nothing to supplement your essential nutrients.  As Jeanette Jenkins, founder and president of the Hollywood Trainer, states, "The human body needs more than cayenne pepper to function."

Weight Loss Clinics
There are two kinds of weight loss clinics...ones who claim they are great because they are staffed by medical doctors, and others that claim they are superior because they have been around for years.  We wouldn't recommend anyone go to them.  Most of them are franchises that can be purchased by anyone with the right capital.

One very famous weight loss clinic no longer has community storefronts.  They do everything online.  Here's what we found out:

• You purchase their food, which is loaded with preservatives (chemicals), artificial flavors (chemicals), lots of hidden sugars, bad carbohydrates (they even have a plan for diabetics that is absolutely laughable - a diabetic looked at the ingredients and said, "That stuff would kill me!"), and other junk.  There is NO nutritional value to any of the food - it's "dead food" that has been over processed and packaged.
• These meals must be supplemented with additional food you buy at the grocery store such as produce and dairy products.
• You can purchase their vitamins, if you want to.
• Pricing:  Autoship - $293.72 and free shipping or $326.36 & $16.00 shipping.
• You can get "free counseling" and an exercise program "designed by a professional personal trainer"
• We've had personal trainers...you cannot get "personal training" over the phone.  A personal trainer does more than design an exercise program for you.  A professional trainer works with you, watches your form to ensure you're doing the exercises correctly, and much more.

The "medical weight loss" clinic has a great hook.  We'll write about that in the near future.