I recently read an article about a local woman who, after having three kids and experiencing the general stress of being a married working mom, had gained a reasonable amount of weight. She said at her heaviest she was weighing over 180lbs. After trying many of the brand name diets (ex Atkins, Jenny Craig, Nutri-Slim, Slim Fast, South Beach) she was not keeping any weight off. She would fluctuate between losing but then gaining 10-12 lbs.
She goes on to tell about seeing a Dr. Perricone on the "Rachel Ray" show one day who was advertising a product called Acai berries (in pill supplement form). These are a berry native to the Amazon region which are high in vitamins and nutrients. She writes about how she began to take this product with another called "Col-n X" which is designed to "remove thick built up sludge from the colon which can reduce the waist size by inches". She says that after maintaining this supplemental intake and dieting and exercising for the 30 day trial period she lost 32 lbs. On the show Dr. Perricone claimed that these supplements would shed pounds what could not be lost with diet and exercise alone. The diet resulted in a total weight loss of 47 lbs.
I have a hard time believing that these miracle supplements would be able to cause you to lose weight that diet and exercise would not. Also, in the article the woman has a before and after picture of herself and they are distinctly different. How could diet and exercise not play a part in the loss of weight in this individual? I cannot imagine that there was even close to 47lbs of biult uo sludge in this person's colon.
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Im with you on this one. No can lose that much weight off of some magic pills without having some sort of harmful effects. They put these things out there on the tv all of the time for us to see and to me it's all non-sense. If she was thin before he body has the potential to be thin again with good diet and exercise.
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