What a great subject contributors leighton and jean have brought up and discussed!
They talked about yesterday about the merits of fasting, and once again its getting popular, on some non-scientific notion that you clean your system out by fasting, and SOMEHOW, you get your body ready to drop weight quicker by the fact that your body is empty and will “therefore” take the new good food “better” and get the weight loss system moving quicker.
As a coincidence, a client of mine recently was given the hard sell on a cruise she has just come back on. I informed her that this method has no scientific proof, none whatsoever. I then asked her how much this so called seminar cost her? She said it was free but they did try to sell her drinks such as the ones you talked about, liquid meals and shakes that would somehow transform you into some kind of body beautiful!!!
The fasting and then shakes diet has never really gone away, and takes several different forms and they are all around us.
Number one on the list of shake diets is lighter life, number one as in giving you false claims about how it will affect you.
Sure that the birds of a feather star pauline quirke will have lost seven stone and well done to her. The problem begins when she starts to eat properly again, and the piling of the weight happened to her co-star in the same show, while she was following another faddy and dangerous diet. Hope it doesn’t happen to her but studies say that 97% of diets DO NOT WORK!!!!
You cannot live on 200-400 calories a day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the fasting period am i right?!!
Then when you take the shakes onboard, they may claim that you are taking onboard a few hundred calories but please consider this!!!
The NHS and any doctor will tell you that any calories under 1200, thats TWELVE HUNDRED will be considered as being MALNOURISHED!!!!
Imagine spending up to £40o a month on shakes and bars, only to be putting your health in serious danger!!!
This subject gets me very angry as you can tell, but i hate to see individuals and groups having their lives DESTROYED by these illegal criminals in my eyes, and based on false claims and tall tales!!!
Make your decisions based on science and common sense and you will be on the right path!!!
I shall be informing my colleague of this reply and let you know what he says!
these companies pray on the weak and vulnerable and anyone who struggles with their weight, which could mean anyone, they are a disgrace in my view