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Formaldehyde in clothes 2007-08-28 16:54:00 I just wanted to quickly share this article, I was looking at it last night, almost every clothing item of Mayas that I have checked are from China...Heres a snippet:New Zealand's Target program tested common items of clothing made in China but New Zealand, like Australia, has no safe levels for formaldehyde, a known cancer cause.At just 20 parts per million, the chemical can induce rashes, headaches, dizziness, joint pain, fatigue, asthma and in the extreme case - cancer.Remember 20 parts per million is considered high, but the test results from New Zealand were incredible.Women's corduroys: 290 parts per million.A spiderman T-shirt: 1,400 parts per million.Pyjamas: 3,400.Kids pants: 16,000 parts per million.White stain resistant pants: 18,000 parts per million.That's nearly 900 times a reasonable safe level.Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Minister, Peter McGauran, ordered authorities to find out what's going on."(It's) totally unacceptable. Australian authorities have been c
The Low Fat side of the Kimkins Diet: Rabbit Starvation, Sudden Death and Resting Metabolism. 2007-09-22 04:40:00 As discussed in the previous article, very low calorie diets like kimkins can cause gall stones due to rapid weight loss as well as the lack of fat that is commonly seen on this diet. This, may also be a danger for low calorie diets like Tony Ferguson which also commonly results in rapid weight loss, very low fat and can easily slip into the VLCD category for some as well. Liquid Protein diets and Sudden
DeathA concern is the sudden deaths associated with the liquid protein shake VLCD diets in the 70s and 80s. Now yes, there was a major issue with the type of protein used but it wasn't the only issue. Of course there have been improvements in the quality and thus safety of these liquid meal replacement diets over the short term (though they still carry lots of risks) BUT they do not show any safety for unsupervised diets, let alone ones that are simply a stab in the dark and offer no real nutritional guidelines and minimums, to avoid risks associated with VLCD dieting and fasting. I s Read more:Rabbit
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The low fat side of the Kimkins Diet: Gallstones 2007-09-11 03:42:00 Hey guys sorry its taking me a while but I've been very busy and keeping up with this whole kimkins controversy isn't helping LOLAnyway the article is still very long so I am breaking it up more, I am still touching it up but the next part on gallstones is good to go:When I began researching the risks of very low calorie and low fat diets I was surprised at just how common gall stones really are, because of this I thought this should be discussed first.It has been well documented that weight loss, in particular, rapid weight loss increases your chances of developing new gallstones. It has been shown in more then one study that new gallstones have formed in as little as only 4 weeks into a VLCD [1]. One study claims 25-35% of people who experience rapid weight loss form gallstones after their VLCD diet [2] and then another one that is higher again with 54.5% developing gallstones [3], not very good odds!The reason this is thought to happen is because, during rapid weight loss, cholest Read more:Gallstones
Kimkins and Google Adwords 2007-09-28 17:30:00 Hey I just spotted this on Kimkins Controversy and wanted to share as I think it is a really good idea:"Now it’s time for the big guns, because we want to stop one of the major sources of new signups for Kimkins.com — the paid ad placements on Google
and Google network sites from Google AdWords. If you go to Google and search for “Kimkins” you will see that there are ads at the top or right side of the search results. These “Sponsored Links” are paid advertisements from Kimkins affiliates or Heidi herself. Google has a policy of refusing ads for sites featuring “miracle cures” and Kimkins is certainly marketed as a miracle cure for obesity. Click here to contact Google AdWords to encourage them to remove these Kimkins.com ads and prevent future advertisers from buying links to Kimkins.com. Remember to tell them: The “Kimmer” success story is untrue and fraudulent. Kimmer (Heidi Diaz) is a morbidly obese woman and there is no evidence that she ever lost the weigh Read more:Adwords
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Kimkins Diet Scam on KTLA Part 2 2007-10-04 01:24:00 Yay its up, I am watching it now :)10/3 - Exclusive! Popular Internet Diet May Be A Sham...and Unsafe. Part 2.
Kimkins, KTLA and Google Adwords 2007-10-03 17:04:00 I still haven't heard back from google, did anyone else?It just dawned on me that Kimmer and Kimkins new fame on KTLA might help move things along so I sent them the link:HelloI emailed you before concerning the kimkins scam and wanted to give you a heads up so you know I am not making this up. The story has now made it to TV, it was aired last night on KTLA with a follow up due tonight at 10pm pst here is the direct link to last nights story:http://video.ktla.com/global/video/popup/pop_playerLaunch.asp?clipid1=1803674&at1=News+%2D+Hard+News&vt1=v&h1=10%2F2+%2D+KTLA+Exclusive%21%21%21++Internet+Diet+Scam+Exposed&d1=219667&redirUrl=http://www.ktla.com&activePane=info&LaunchPageAdTag=homepagePlease remove her and any affiliates she may have from your adwords.RegardsSherrieSurely the video will have to seal it? Read more:Google
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Kimkins and Kimmer on TV!!! 2007-10-03 01:21:00 Check it out: KTLA Exclusive: Internet Diet Scam ExposedOh and notice how she sounds just like Jimmy's podcast!!! :)Oh and by the way, for those on Dial up, Serenity from LCF went to the trouble of writing out a transcript and sharing some pics from the video, check it out hereAlso now that this is all out I wanted to mention a new blog post on the PI's blog that you will find interesting :)Private Investigator's Notes: The Surveillance of Southern California Diet Scammer Heidi Diaz of Kimkins Edited to add I changed the link to KTLA above to a direct link as it saves looking for it plus the viewing window is larger but the original link is here. There is another show tonight which I believe is covering the lawsuit and health risks. Use this link when waiting for the next show to come online, the first one uploaded after the show had finished airing so I'd expect the same to happen this time. The news program airs at 10pm pst and goes for an hour so expect it to go online after 11p
BMI 2007-10-02 02:32:00 Hey I was just visiting Burning the Scale blog and came across this flickr gallery displaying photos of people representing various BMI'sSome are really surprising: Illustrated BMI Categories
Some Home Made Dairy Recipes 2007-10-12 17:27:00 photo courtesy of geek philosopherI love buying cooking magazines, I try to buy one every fortnight during our main grocery shop. This time I bought one called Donna Hay Magazine, I had never bought this one before and it was really good. I found a bunch of LC suitable recipes and shared some of them hereBut what was even better was the home made dairy recipes inside which looked very simple. There's ricotta cheese, curd cheese, clotted cream and yoghurt. With Maya being sensitive to the proteins in regular cows milk I have to give her A2 milk. I have yet to come across any cheese or yoghurt's (which she loves) that are made with this milk so I thought some of these recipes would come in handy.Anyway I thought you guys might like them too :)Keep in mind that the cup measures are metric cup measures so use the other measure in brackets if you don't use metric and metric tablespoon are 20ml where as US tablespoons are 14 ml which is about half an ounce, measurements and conversions.Ri Read more:Dairy
Kimmer, Defammation of Character 2007-10-24 16:09:00 I just got word that Kimmer is allegedly suing Jeanessa's attorney John for defamation.How did she work that one out? I assume the KTLA series? LOL Read more:Character
The Right Brain vs Left Brain 2007-10-21 17:37:00 I keep meaning to post this here for some fun, have a go! :)The RightBrain
vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it. MORE
Low carb diet now extends benefits to IBD 2007-10-25 00:40:00 Hey I was just reading this news article and thought I'd share, I found it interesting that they removed onions, I wonder if it was because of fructans anyway here it is:Low carb diet now extends
benefits to IBDA special low-carbohydrate diet has been found to relieve the distressing symptoms that afflict people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) – an umbrella term that covers Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.The Australian study, from Box Hill Hospital Victoria, found the diet, which involves cutting back on foods including wheat, onions, milk, ice-cream, apples, honey, stone fruits and legumes, to be effective in more than 50 per cent of patients with IBD who have co-existing irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).Read the rest here I found the abstract if anyone is interested: The effect of reduction of poorly absorbed, highly fermentable short-chain carbohydrates (FODMAPs) on the symptoms of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) (scroll down)
Avocado, Pancetta and Pine Nut Salad 2007-10-25 00:30:00 I found this recipe in the Delicious magazine, it is a Jamie Oliver recipe and looks really yummy and would be very low carb!Avocado, Pancetta and Pine Nut Salad
12 thin slices of pancetta6 Avocados (ripe)4 large handfuls of baby spinach50g pine nuts2 Tbs of Olive oil (extra virgin)1 Tbs balsamic vinegarextra oil for fryingFry pancetta in a little olive oil until crispy, remove and set aside. Add pine nuts to pan and lightly toast until golden, set aside.Peel and cut avocados into wedges and toss with with pancetta, pine nuts and spinach.To make dressing, with a whisk, combine balsamic vinegar with the olive oil and season with freshly ground salt and pepper then drizzle over salad.
Mother Jailed, Put On Trial for Curing Her Son of Melanoma 2007-11-04 02:54:00 I was reading this after one of the ladies posted about this today on our forum. Have you guys in the US, heard about this?Mother Jailed, Put On Trial
for Curing
Her Son of MelanomaVery freaky... what do you think?
Kimkins Diet Scam 2007-11-15 18:31:00 Okay, I just wanted to make hopefully one last post on this controversial diet scam named Kimkins. I have been procrastinating on this for a while, because as passionate as I am about the health risks of the kimkins diet I do feel that posting on the other aspects doesn't really fit with this blog and is much better left to the others. But, with the latest publicity she has had from the Morning Show, which apparently is pretty major, I have been a little concerned that this would send a lot more her way especially considering the 40,000 new members she received after the womans world article in just a few short weeks. Granted, this wasn't positive like the WW article, but we all know how easy it is to let our desperation to lose weight get the better of us, as well as how damn convincing Kimmer can be.For those new here, you would have noticed upon googling that there are a lot of negative blogs and reviews regarding the kimkins diet, there is good reason for that. Just a couple of m
A Low-carb Diet May Stunt Prostate Tumor Growth 2007-11-14 15:13:00 Hey, I just came across this today in Science Daily. We all know how beneficial low carbohydrate diets are for various cancers and there are more and more studies out there that show this. Now, another on prostate cancer, but be warned - it is a mice study. This will lead to a human one and hopefully more recognition for low carb diets.In the study they compared tumour growth in mice fed a low carb diet, a low fat diet and a western diet that is high in both fat and carbohydrates. The low fat diet had a shorter survival time and large tumour but western diet faired the worst with the shortest survival time and biggest tumour out of all three. Naturally the low carb diet faired the best with the longest survival and smallest tumours but as well as that not only did they share lower insulin levels like the low fat group they also had lower levels of the form of IGF, which is capable of stimulating tumor growth.I liked this quote:"This study showed that cutting carbohydrates may slow tum Read more:Prostate
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Kimkins, dieting and eating disorders 2007-12-04 01:18:00 I was reading this post and was really moved by it so I wanted to share, it is kimkins related but I found it to be much more then that:"People don’t see eatingdisorders
with fat people. They see desperation and lack of self control. They’ve eaten so much they deserve to be that way. They’ve let themselves go. They’re disgusting, it’s their fault.I am fat. I am overweight. I do not overeat. I am not lazy. I am not gluttonous. I have not let myself go. I do not sit on my ass all day. And I have an eating disorder."Read the post here: Diet fraud: redefining anorexia
Kimkins 2008-02-22 16:03:11 Looks like it is time for another kimkins update on the whole kimkins diet saga :DIt was a big week last week for Kimmer and in my opinion, her starvation diet.As most of you should know by now, the Kimkins diet scam was featured on Good Morning America on the ABC network, if you haven't seen it check it out: Kimkins on GMA.For those whom have trouble with watching these due to dial up or they can't use sound, due to being at work. Elle, from the blog, Grilled Cheese Sandwich With Pickles, has taken the time to type out a transcript of the show here: Kimkins on Good Morning America TranscriptOne interesting tidbit for those whom have watched the video, GMA repeatedly mention the 500 calorie limit during the show. Kimmer has since claimed that this is untrue and has posted a rebuttal on her
Anyone heard of Clinifast? 2008-02-21 05:09:57 If you think kimkins has the potential to be very dangerous...I just came across this today and all I can say is WTF???One of Clinifast's great products is called Ultra. It is designed for many uses including meal replacement shakes. One serving of Ultra has only 45 calories, 11 grams of protein and only 1 carb!Correct me if I am wrong but a meal replacement shake is when you replace an entire meal with it, yes? So, what they are suggesting is that you replace say a typical 500 calorie diet meal with one that doesn't even come up to 50 calories and only a measly 11 grams of protein???This is the blog here called living the low carb life... yeah right, since when were protein shake meal replacements a low carb life??? clinifastHas anyone done this?For those new here, considering this diet, Read more:Anyone
Treating Epilepsy in Adults with Low Carb 2008-02-20 16:50:57 We have all been reminded in the press lately about the benefits of a ketogenic diet in the treatment of children with epilepsy.Well today I just spotted this new abstract for a study on treating Adults
with Epilepsy with a modified Atkins diet, which I thought was good to see as you never see it recommended for adults. I thought I'd share here, as I add it to my low carb research page :)A Prospective Study of the Modified Atkins Diet for Intractable Epilepsy in AdultsEric H. Kossoff, Hannah Rowley, Saurabh R. Sinha, and Eileen P. G. ViningPurpose: The ketogenic diet is not typically offered to adults with epilepsy due to the significant lifestyle alterations needed for its use. The modified Atkins diet has been recently demonstrated to be therapeutic for children without the need for an a
Apology to Australian Aborigines 2008-02-13 02:48:40 I wanted to share this with my non Aussie readers. Our new Prime Minister apologised to our Aborigines today for the stolen generations. I have always felt sorry for them since I was a kid because of how we invaded their country and treated them, but only until a few years ago I never knew we were stealing their kids. It's not exactly something they taught you in school history lessons!What is worse is that, this is pretty recent, Aborigines my age and even younger were stolen from their families up until the mid 70's, I find that all very barbaric and disgusting. There was a touching movie called Rabbit-Proof Fence that I think everyone should see.Of course, this has been very controversial with our previous Prime Minister refusing to apologise. Frankly, I don't see the big deal, regardle Read more:Apology
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Kimkins 2008-02-12 18:01:27 I was just posting about these posts on kimkins and eating disorders on a kimkins diet forum thread we have when I thought that I should add it here too in case some of you haven't been to Medusas blog this week or for anyone new that comes across my blog through googling kimkins.Are you guys ready to be shocked like you have never been shocked before?This is why I (and many others) am so passionate about kimkins, I know there are other very low calorie scam diets out there and we can't win them all, but that doesn't mean we should just sit on our hands if there is something we can do to help.This is a collection of few blog posts regarding someone in kimkins whom is eating very, very little and exercising like crazy (running and weights), and is looking like she is experiencing problems w
If you have Diabetes 2 you're screwed... 2008-01-30 22:11:56 Okay that may seem harsh but after reading this you may not think so.Granted I am not talking about those whom are using lifestyle changes consisting of diet and exercise, specifically low carbohydrate diets, but after reading this I wonder how many actually do.I am referring to this diabetes 2 case vignette, I was just reading on The New England Journal of Medicine website where doctors are given a case study for a 51 year old lady seeking advice on managing her diabetes. They are given 3 treatment options and are then asked to vote on and discuss these options.None of these options are lifestyle changes, not only that, out of all the replies, there's barely a mention, though I did see a couple of doctors question the pharmaceutical influence of these options. Low carb and weight loss thr Read more:Diabetes
Kimkins Scam 2008-01-15 22:06:53 I thought I'd help out these bloggers and share their latest posts on how you can help:First one could be quite interesting, as this diet scam is soon to make it to national TV yet again, this time by ABC. They are looking for people whom have been harmed whilst doing this diet, if you have been harmed then please consider coming on their show. Whilst it's great to see Christin and Deni on the Morning show it would be great to see some others whom were purely just a regular member trying to lose weight.If you can help please do:Harmed by Kimkins? Share your Story on National TVAnother fantastic effort I see is a competition aimed at encouraging people whom do not approve of kimkins to be more pro-active against Kimmer and her kimkins diet. The reward?Seeing her website go bye bye... but in
Type 2 Diabetes and Carrot Cake 2008-01-09 02:05:30 Lol have you guys seen this gem?From Eureka, courtesy of the sugar Bureau:Carrot
cake study on sugar in type 2 diabetesNew study adds to new thinking on sugar in the diabetes dietPatients with type 2 diabetes are often advised to cut out sucrose (table sugar) all together. However, in recent years this traditional advice has been questioned by some researchers who suggest that moderate amounts of sugar can be safely consumed as part of the diet of patients with diabetes. Now a new study has been published that is consistent with this revised approach. It showed that patients who increased their daily sugar intake (in the form of carrot cake) but maintained a stable body weight, showed no adverse changes in their blood glucose.The study was conducted by the Department of Nutrition and Diete Read more:Diabetes
Santa Claus, Santa Claus You Are Much too Fat.... 2007-12-30 16:16:42 Santa Claus
, Santa Claus
You Are Much too FatI heard a reindeer hoof, then Santa dressed in red,came crashing thro’ the roof and landed on my bed.I thought it was a dream, but quickly did I wake,as soon as I heard Santa scream, “I want a piece of cake!”CHORUSOh, Santa Claus, Santa Claus, you are much too fat;I was sleeping peacefully but now my bed is flat. Oh!Santa Claus, Santa Claus, how much do you weigh?I’m glad I’m not a reindeer that has to pull your sleigh!He got up off the floor and said, “How do you do?”I said, “My back is sore, my head is black and blue.”“So sorry!” he replied, and then he asked my name.He offered me a ride, I said, “No, thank you just the same!”CHORUSI heard a “ho, ho, ho,” the sleigh was in the sky.but it was moving slow and wasn Read more:Santa
Belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2007-12-27 00:35:06 Sorry I haven't wished everyone a MerryChristmas
but I have been very busy. Also sorry I haven't been updating much but apart from being busy I have also been feeling a bit burnt out with kimkins and have been spending lots of time trying to help with the cause where I can. I haven't really known what to blog about.Anyway I wanted to share my Christmas present with you guys, Garry booked me in for a joy flight in an old warbird, I was packing it at first but it was really fun and left me wanting more :)Here is a pic of my parachute, you will notice there is padding down the bottom as the seats in the plane are just metal bucket seats:Here's a pic of me in the plane that the pilot took, it didn't turn out very good in that it it was very washed out/bright on me so I tried to fix it up a li Read more:Happy
MY ASPARTAME EXPERIMENT. 2008-03-14 01:44:56 "A FEMALE RAT DEVELOPED A MAMMARY TUMOR SO LARGE SHE OFTEN USED IT AS A PILLOW"As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words...LC Dave showed me this and straight away I posted it in an aspartame thread we have going then later though I should share it here too. I don't know how legit this is and I never did ask Dave how he came across this. I couldn't see any contact info and when checking their domain they were using domain proxy but, if this is true...According to this website the rats took aspartame to the human equivalent to less then 1 diet coke a day! :eek:Read about it yourself here: MY ASPARTAME EXPERIMENT
Been MIA And Some Interesting Links 2008-04-01 00:30:08 Hey Guys!Sorry I have been so quiet, I have been struggling with what I like to call - considering I am not a writer, "Blogger's Block" :)When this whole kimkins thing really started to come to my attention early last year, I started to feel a fire under my belly and had lots of ideas to blog. But, then came the trouble with researching them and putting my thoughts into words, which I was really struggling with and I will explain why in a moment. I am still not happy with the kimkins posts I wrote at the time because I feel like I forgot to mention so much that I really wanted to convey in those posts. Then, it seemed people weren't so interested in the health side of it at all but rather the scam itself which I wasn't really into so much myself, so then my desire to blog about it started
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