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Originally Posted by carnie
Congratulations on your weight loss!
Your pictures look great! Low calorie diets and exercise always worked best for me, too.
THANKS!
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I tried FF and couldn't stick with it because it was too restrictive and I didn't feel as well. I kept asking myself if this could be healthy, so I read a review that someone here posted from http://diets.aol.com/a-z/fatflush_di...10162209990025 and it scared the crap out of me, so I stopped FF.
I've seen this review of Fat Flush before and frankly, I think the reviewer didn't do her homework. There were scientific studies cited to back up the Fat Flush Plan recommendations (unlike the reviewer cited above, I actually did my homework and read them!
), in addition, there are plenty of other MD, PhD, ND, professionals who back Gittleman's work. Read on:
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from Paula Baillie-Hamilton, MD, PhD, Author of Toxic Overload, “The reactions expressed by the doctors interviewed ...are typical of those who have been taught nothing about toxicology or environmental medicine. Despite the fact that two of the biggest industries in the world are built on the ability of many synthetic chemicals to interfere and poison our bodily systems (i.e. the pharmaceutical industry and the chemical industry), few consider the health-damaging effects that come with accumulating levels of these chemicals in the body. Indeed, few even know what these chemicals are due to the lack of books on the subject and a lack of training in medical school.
The fact that chemicals alter body weight, both up and down, is fully established in the toxicology world. The chemicals known to affect bodily weight have been documented in many hundreds of academic papers. The food industry uses chemicals to promote animal weight gain all the time. Many advertisements have boasted about the weight-gaining effects of these chemicals in the farming process.
The evidence is so overwhelming that I wrote an academic paper in a peer reviewed journal exposing the evidence behind the connection between chemical toxins and the obesity epidemic (See J Altern Complement Med. 2002 Apr; 8(2):185-92)
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Hyla Cass, MD, Author of 8 Weeks to Vibrant HealthQuote:
“It's blatantly obvious to many of us in the medical profession that weight gain in the 21st century is no longer a matter of cutting down on calories, carbs, or doing more exercise. As a nutritionally-oriented psychiatrist, I am keenly aware of how common medications like antidepressants and mood stabilizers can pack on anywhere from 10-30 pounds in a month! Weight gain from prescriptions, like the ‘toxins’ Gittleman discusses ... is a very common side effect."
From
Elson M. Haas, MD, Author of Staying Healthy With Nutrition and The New Detox DietQuote:
"As The Detox Doc™ I have supervised fasts and detoxification regimens for literally thousands of my patients for more than three decades. I consider cleansing and detox dieting to be the missing link in Western nutrition and a key to the vitality of our civilization. Ann Louise is to be commended for getting the detox message out to mainstream Americans. I couldn't agree more with her message and her methods. It's time to place your health and that of your loved ones back into your own hands by undergoing periodic cleansing and making the healthiest eating and lifestyle choices."
From Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, author of Death by Modern Medicine:Quote:
As a researcher in the arena of environmental medicine, I fully endorse Ann Louise Gittleman's work. Like the canaries in cages in coal mines that die when the air gets toxic, people in our society are developing chemical sensitivities at an alarming rate and nothing is being done about it. As I write in my book Death by Modern Medicine:
Chemicals Take Over
The sheer weight of pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides used in industry has polluted our soil and water table. The air emissions and effluents from commerce have contaminated our air and water. All of which have poisoned the food chain; plants, fish, and animals. Certain species are becoming endangered. Are humans next?
Plants grown on devitalized, overworked soil, which has been poisoned by acid rain and the contaminated water table, are nutrient poor. Synthetic food substitutes and processed, refined food that are devoid of natural vitamins and minerals actually have synthetic vitamins added to them. The body does not recognize synthetic sources. They may be even treated like foreign bodies and the body has to produce antibodies to try to get rid of them. But in doing so the body becomes allergic and hypersensitive.
Our body was not made to process synthetic, fiber-poor foods. It’s no wonder that constipation, intestinal toxemia, and digestive disorders are major health complaints. The sale of laxatives and antacids are in the billions of dollars.
While it's true that no diet works for 100% of those who try it, I believe that Fat Flush is not so much a diet as a way of life. It has taught me what a healthy diet IS (whole grains, organic produce, grassfed beef) and what it is NOT (highly processed, carb-heavy, full of chemicals, colorings, stabilizers, flavorings, etc). Bottom line - Fat Flush not only helped me shed 57 pounds, over 23 inches, and 5 dress sizes, it also resolved many of my perimenopausal symptoms (insomnia, brain fog, mood swings, acne, etc). So yep, you can put me down as a Fat Flush cheerleader!
Wahoooooooo!
(second digression: I come from a long line of cellulite-prone women and suffered from it all my adult life. Didn't seem really possible to finally be rid of it)
). Phase 2 lasts as long as it takes to get to goal. I was in Phase two for about 6 months.
