Ridiculous diets, the idiots that create them and the fools that follow them.

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xox G xox: 6 WEEKS TO OMG! WTF?
By The Hoopla
July 9, 2012

We predict you’ll be hearing a lot more about this one…

If your teenage daughter is skipping breakfast, drinking black coffee, exercising then sitting in an icy-cold bath for 15 minutes and blowing up balloons, it’s a sure thing she’s got her hands on the latest diet that’s caused an uproar in the UK – Six Weeks to OMG: Get Skinnier Than All Your Friends.

Dieticians and experts on girls’ self esteem have slammed the diet, both here and in the UK as being “exploitative”, “ludicrous” and “dangerous”.

The book is released in Australia today.

However, it started out as an e-book on Apple’s iTunes earlier this year – so your teen may already have it. In just weeks it had sold more than 120,000 copies, five times more than the Dukan Diet.

The book rights have been sold to US and publishers world-wide for “seven figure sums”.

Not only has the regimen been criticised for being nutritionally dubious – it says that comsuming “broccoli carbs”, fruit and smoothies are all as bad as drinking Coke – but the tagline “get skinnier than all your friends” is said to be inciting unhealthy competition between girls (and boys).

“There’s no stopping point for this competition… There is only the never-ending cycle of getting skinnier than your friends until you all completely disappear. By which I mean potentially die,” wrote Marianne Kirby in the Guardian.

Here in Australia, Dr. Samantha Thomas, health sociologist at Monash University, says the diet’s message is “dangerous” because it taps into young girls’ vulnerability.

“It sends the dangerous message that having a low body weight equals popularity,” she told The Hoopla.

“It preys on young girls especially, who are very vulnerable because they are just starting to think about diets. This book appears to tap into that. We know that there is a direct link between early-age dieting and eating disorders.”
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xox G xox: The exhortation from the author that parents might not understand and not to tell them you are following the OMG! diet is irresponsible, she says.

“We are trying to encourage parents and children to have a focus on wellbeing… not weight. To have an open discussion.”

The writer, Paul Khanna (left) is a London gym instructor who publishes under the pen name “Venice A. Fulton”, is set to be a millionaire.

He chose the name “Venice” because California is the “home of healthy culture, of macro-fitness”.

“I was unaware of what I was unleashing,” he says of the storm of criticism around him.

But he believes he is a trail-blazer. There are some who think his diet just might work“We’ve been listening to the same diet rules for years and they’ve become so ingrained in our culture that we won’t listen to anything new.”

Most contentious is the advice he gives that doctors “cannot be trusted” and are “behind the times”.

“In 2000, French researchers reporting in the British Journal of Nutrition were among the first to show that a typical high-energy breakfast of toast, yoghurt and fruit actually blocked fat loss throughout the entire day.”

He advocates kick starting the metabolism by skipping breakfast, drinking black coffee, exercising and sitting in an icy-cold bath.

Blowing up balloons is said to be good to tone the stomach muscles. (See extract from the book, next page.)

“I am aware throughout history that when you present a new idea you’re going to get resistance at the beginning,” he says. “You’re almost certainly going to be laughed at. But the important thing is to rise above obscurity in terms of getting these ideas out there.”

Khanna says at least he has the courage to say what others won’t and that he wrote the book because he was frustrated “watching people pour their effort into old-fashioned diets destined to fail; and … knowing that there were solutions that no-one had the guts to put forward.”

However, UK TV diet expert, Dr Christian Jessen says the diet will not work.

“It is no surprise that one-third of obese people skip breakfast, and we know from many studies that breakfast dodgers have more poorly controlled blood sugar and increased body mass index. Being hungry at the start of the day means either a binge mid-morning or an inappropriately large lunch, followed by a larger than average evening meal.”
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xox G xox: FAD OR FAB? An extract from Six weeks to OMG: Get Skinnier Than All Your Friends.

The case against breakfast

Starting tomorrow, or whenever you begin your plan, I want you to stop eating breakfast. Yes, skip breakfast! Some experts, and just as many cereal manufacturers, claim that skipping breakfast makes you eat more in total. That can be true in the short term. But even then, this just hides the most important fact. And that fact, which they can’t deny or dare mention, is that eating food first thing in the morning stops all fat burning. Instantly.

Cold baths burn calories

The bathtub. You probably think that it’s just a place to have a soak, wash your hair, and forget all your worries. Well, if some of your worries are about being too fat or having thighs that make you cry, consider those worries lifted! How? Water absorbs heat, lots of it, and it does it much quicker than air. The colder you get, the more your body boosts heat production to keep you warm. As it does, some heat gets lost through skin. When you’re losing heat, you’re losing energy. This energy has to come from somewhere. All water, compared to the same air temperature, will help you lose calories fast.

Black coffee is magic

Coffee. Nice? Yuk? Something that teachers drink? Why care, we just want to burn fat! And coffee can help. It’s nature’s cheap and secret potion. The magic in the potion is caffeine. Caffeine boosts the central nervous system (like cold baths), the thing that controls most of your movement and electrical activity. When you have it on an empty stomach, it tells your body to burn fat much faster. Mixed with milk and sugar or sweeteners, plus a donut or three, coffee turns into a useless drug! It really has a chemical Jekyll and Hyde split personality.

Eat little, not very often

I realise that the idea of eating three meals per day seems old- fashioned. Guess what? Being fat is a modern fashioned problem! Body fat exists to give us energy when we’re not taking any in. This can only happen in gaps between meals. The more often you eat, the shorter the gaps get. Three meals are ideal. It’s plenty for getting variety into our diet, it’s spaced out enough to let us burn body fat in between meals, and it’s social too.

Blow the fat away

Some notice that working out or being skinny doesn’t make their stomach truly flat. And that’s because most movements don’t work a special muscle that our eyes can’t see. And if we can’t even see it, being skinny doesn’t much help it. It’s called the transversus. How can we train this hidden gem? By blowing up balloons! It sounds weird, but it works, and works quickly.

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YES Its a long read but worth skimming over

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xox G xox: Whats wrong with a healthy diet, decrease your sugar intact and exercise. Everyone today thinks theres a quick fix but this all takes time to achieve and maintain.
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calybonos
calybonos: In a recent survery of prostitues in my area:

9 out of 10 swear that crack,blowjobs,and washing in a gas station restroom sink is the perfect diet to lose those unwanted pounds.
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xox G xox: I read something somewhere that sperm had some special dietary properties and crack definitely curbs the appetite.
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StuckInTheSixties:

As a moral human being, I refuse to eat other living things, or by-products of other living things.

I eat gravel.

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xox G xox: researchers try to nail down the impact on overall health, data is mounting when it comes to some specifics. Here are several potential benefits:

1. Easing depression and stress
Bass says this is pretty definite. “The release from orgasm does much to calm people. It helps with sleep, and that is whether we talk about solo sex or sex with a partner,” she says.

But wait, there’s more. A recent study of college students at the State University of New York in Albany suggests that semen acts as an antidepressant. Females in the study who were having sex without condoms (see safe sex caution, above) had fewer signs of depression than women who used condoms or abstained from sex.

“These data are consistent with the possibility that semen may antagonize depressive symptoms,” the authors wrote, “and evidence which shows that the vagina absorbs a number of components of semen that can be detected in the bloodstream within a few hours of administration.”

I kid you not, ladies. Semen is good stuff. It gives a shot of zinc, calcium, potassium, fructose, proteins -- a veritable cornucopia of vitality!

2. Relieving pain
Orgasm is a powerful pain-killer. Oxytocin, a natural chemical in the body that surges before and during climax, gets some of the credit, along with a couple of other compounds like endorphins.

According to a study by Beverly Whipple, professor emeritus at Rutgers University and a famed sexologist and author, when women masturbated to orgasm “the pain tolerance threshold and pain detection threshold increased significantly by 74.6 percent and 106.7 percent respectively.”

Ten years ago today, the Women's Health Initiative found that hormone replacement therapy can be harmful, scaring millions of women off them. A decade later, women such as Ingrid Gorman are still grappling with the fallout and so are many doctors.

3. Boosting cardio health
I can’t resist another plug for semen. It’s possible that male goo can lower blood pressure. Another recent study found that women who gave their men oral sex, and swallowed, had a lower risk of preeclampsia, the dangerously high blood pressure that sometimes accompanies pregnancy.

No, I’m not making this up. “The present study shows that oral sex and swallowing sperm is correlated with a diminished occurrence of preeclampsia,” said the Dutch authors.

See? We told you it was good for you.

There have been other studies showing that sex lowers blood pressure, and might even protect against strokes because of its stress-relieving ability.

But when we think of sex and the cardio system, we tend to think of poor old Nelson Rockefeller having a heart attack in flagrante delicto. Well, not only does that hardly ever happen, but sex might actually protect the heart. A 2002 report from a large British population of men said “some protection from fatal coronary events may be an added bonus” of frequent sexual intercourse.

4. Countering prostate cancer
Over the past few years, several journals have published studies showing that the more ejaculations the better.

Now the Journal of the American Medical Association, no less, has reported that “high ejaculation frequency was related to decreased risk of total prostate cancer.” It doesn’t matter how a man climaxes -- intercourse or masturbation. So next time he says, “Really, honey, it’s therapy,” he could be telling the truth.

5. Healing wounds
Some evidence suggests sex can be rejuvenating to the point of helping wounds to heal faster. Several experiments have shown that oxytocin can help even stubborn sores, like those suffered by diabetics, to heal by regenerating certain cells.

6. Fighting aging
Maybe it’s the rejuvenation, maybe the happiness, maybe all of the above. One thing’s for sure: “Use it or lose it” is literally true. For example, postmenopausal women often suffer from “vaginal atrophy,” which is what it sounds like and can lead to all sorts of complications like urinary tract infections. What’s one way to prevent it? More intercourse.

Sex is a form of exercise, after all, and like all exercise, it burns calories and can help battle the onslaught of the years. In fact, nursing home experts say they wish oldsters would have more sex.

Can sex really make you live longer? Maybe. In the same population of British men I cited earlier, researchers found a 50 percent reduction in overall mortality in the group of men who said they had the most orgasms. There was a dose response: the more orgasms, the better.

Of course, as Kinsey’s Bass reminds us, it could be that these blokes were just healthier and felt like having sex more often. But since there’s no evidence that lots of sex is bad for you, what have you got to lose?
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xox G xox: Keep trying Rabbit, its rather pathetic yet funny watching your attempts for attention.

I drink a lot of green tea ....love the stuff
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OCD_OCD: I eat whatever I want within boundaries. I don't like fast food and very little fried food. Sweets aren't my thing, so I guess I just eat like a regular person.

If I could get fat eating baba ganoush, hummus and avocados, I'd be behemoth because I can eat them like a trucker.
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fairgojustsaying: No person that doesn't eat chocolate is a regular person lol



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fairgojustsaying: Any relation to Crazyhouse ^^^^^^^^^^^^? Don't answer, I know
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lavendar_star: OMG: Get Skinnier Than All Your Friends.The guy who wrote this book knew what he was doing the title alone shows his intentions, the diet industry world wide is big business and he is just cashing in on it.

This fad will come and go like all the others but it will claim a few victims on the way, most diets are useless which is why most people gain the weight back and a bit more to boot, the irony.

Also people are lazy, they like quick fixes etc rather then do real work and put in the time (most weight lose happens over a long period of time). It is sad that so much money is made out of girls and women warped body images, vulnerabilities weight problems and vanity, most diets like these are normally used by slim women who want to be skinny, its madness.
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