Clay Diet

• Various methods, main staple is eating bentonite clay

  • Made from ash, used for many healthy purposes- skin for example

  • Weight loss Concept

  • It swell in stomach to 2x the size to fill you up

  • Attaches to heavy metals and “toxins”

  • Star Power - Zoe Kravits was recommended Clay Diet to lose 20ls for “The Road Within”

  • It worked, but she said it

  • “Felt awful” “I was a space cadet and sick” “ I don't recommend this to anybody
  • “Ate a mason jar of clay and purred vegetables and ran a lot”

  • Complications

  • Studies do show it causes abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea and constipation.

  • Can perforate bowels and cause acute kidney damage

  • Binds to everything good and bad

    • Slows calcium and iron absorption
    • Can slow down medications
    • Supports Often Say

  • “Proven” to attach to fat, in rat models. But what’s wrong with fat? And I’m not a mouse

  • Aboriginals do it!

    • Australian Aboriginals do it for weight loss where most do it to combat hunger

    • Australian aboriginals have some of the highest Diabetes and heart disease in the world for tribesmen

      • Comparing a healthy habit to one of the least healthy of their kind?

The Fletcherizing Diet

• One of the Original Fad Diets

• Medical Definition of fletcherize

  • to reduce (food) to tiny particles especially by prolonged chewing

    • Origins of the chew for 32x model
      • “Nature will castigate those who don’t masticate,” claimed Dr. Horace Fletcher,
    • Concept

  • Chew all food 100x, even liquids so they can “properly mix with saliva for digestion”

  • People lost weight

    • Very slow eating period
    • Got full with eating less

    • Got tired of chewing for so long and would eat less

      • Also original who touted to know what it is that you are eating
      • He heavily claimed and announced that this diet can make your feces smell better.

    • For everybody who cares about that…

    • Famous Fletcherizers-

  • Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, and John D. Rockefeller

  • There are known benefits to chewing more

  • Slows us down so we eat less

  • Allows us to enjoy our food instead of inhale and vanish

  • We absorb more nutrients

    • Whole corn or spinach in your stool? Didn’t absorb it, you eat to quickly

      • Chew everything 32 times compared to 10 and…

    • Took almost twice as long to eat

    • Ate 12% less

      • 240kcal on a 2000kcal diet
      • Significant enough to lose weight
      • Fletcher made millions and then a new dietary theory came out called “Calorie Counting”

The Master Cleanse, AKA The Lemonade Diet AKA The Diuretic diet

• There are a ton of variations

  • All basically come down to 5 to 10 days of lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper into water
  • approximately 600kcal
  • Essentially just ingesting diuretics

  • Does it work?

  • Can lose 10 to 20 pounds of WATER weight relatively quickly

  • An original bonus was cited as you“Don’t need teeth”

  • Should I do it

  • Will gain the weight right back once they eat food and water again

  • Can rapidly lose muscle when in extreme caloric deficit
  • Common side effects of fatigue, nausea, dizziness, dehydration, stomach pains
  • Sounds like montezuma's revenge from school to me (Vitamin C and Magnesium)

The Five Bite Diet

• Eat whatever you want -- but only five bites of it.

  • No breakfast except black coffee
  • Eat anything you desire for lunch and dinner, but only 5 bites of each
  • Drink as much 0 Calorie fluids as youd like

  • The concept is smaller portions to an extreme

  • Very difficult to get even 1000kcal in if you try

  • Doesn't matter what you eat, just how much

  • Standard day is

  • Breakfast- Black coffee and a multivitamin

  • Lunch- 3 bites of a burger and 2 of a salad
  • Dinner- 3 bites of macaroni and cheese and 2 of apple pie

  • Sounds like justified anorexia

  • Better off not eating (metabolically speaking) then eating so little and being malnourished and rapidly decrease your metabolism

Cigarettes For Weight Loss

• Smoking kills 1 in 5 people

• Has been known for decades it is an appetite suppressant

  • Nicotine specifically

  • Is a common reason for teenagers, mostly female, to start smoking

  • Common reason why people don’t stop smoking after they start

  • Eating disorder patients are 250% more likely to smoke

  • Suppresses hunger, but are smokers thinner?

  • Depends

    • Heavy smokers tend to be more obese

      • So its not the more you smoke the lighter you get - Light smokers tend to be thinner then nonsmokers
        • Smoking increases viceral fat
        • Correlated with metabolic syndrome and diabetes type 2
      • Smokers usually gain weight when they quit

  • No longer suppressing appetite

  • Tend to eat food instead of smoking to kick the habit
  • But what about Just Nicotine?

  • Patches, pills, etc

  • Stimulant that releases epinephrine

    • Fight or flight/sympathetic response

    • Increases heart rate, blood pressure, blood glucose levels

      • Raises metabolic rate - Can wan hunger

      • Activate reward center in brain opposed to donuts

      • Increases blood glycogen and dopamine to curve appetite
        • Is addicting and can easily cause side effects in large doses

    • Stomach and headaches

    • Dizziness, tremors
    • Nausea, high blood pressure

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