Sacred Heart Diet - Will The Sacred Heart
Diet Get Rid Of Fat Fast!?
By
Ron R
Exactly what is the Sacred Heart Diet? And
can it really help you lose weight that
fast??Although many think of this diet as
something "new" in truth, it's been around
for a long time. Every few years it seems to
take on a new life, as the myth of its
creation is re-circulated through the "moron
mainstream media".
The Fairy Tale goes like
this: The Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital in
Montreal, Canada, designed this diet to be
used on heart disease patients who were
scheduled for upcoming surgery. In order to
lose substantial weight quickly, the
patients would use the diet for 7 days at a
time.The problem is, the Sacred Heart
hospital has sent out an official press
release which says that no one at their
hospital, "took part in the development of
this diet". On top of that, their Medical
Centre has also officially "disclaimed any
association" with the diet. On top of THAT,
the American Heart Association has
officially stated that the diet is a fake.
Get the idea yet?
Now this is not to say that
the diet has no value. The diet CAN work -
and work well - IF you know the correct way
to use it.
(By the way, this diet goes
under many other names, for example: the
Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital Diet , the
Cleveland Clinic Diet, the Spokane Heart
Diet, and the Miami Heart Institute Diet.)
The first priority is to deal
with the problems the diet creates:
1) The diet claims that you
can lose 10 pounds or more, in a single
week. As expected, weight loss that occurs
this quickly, is mostly water. Which means
there's the danger that you will gain all
the weight back, as soon as you go off the
diet.
2) The diet is very
low-calorie. As expected, this means that
you cannot continue the diet for long
periods - and certainly cannot follow it as
a "healthy lifestyle"!
3) The diet is somewhat
unhealthy (due to its severe restrictions) -
but this problem can be reduced with the
proper modifications to its "rules".
4) The very low-calorie
nature of the diet, and it's food
selections, cause frequent, unwanted "side
effects". Diarrhea is the most widely
reported. But also, weakness,
light-headedness, dizziness - and even
fainting! (The modifications mentioned in
point 3 above, can also reduce these
problems somewhat.)
Here is a brief outline of
what it's like to follow the Sacred Heart
Diet. (I will give you the full diet plan,
including the main Soup Recipe, plus ways to
deflect the "side effects", in the next
article in this series - see below for
details.)
The diet runs for 7 days. The
main component is a "special" soup recipe,
which can (and should) be eaten all 7 days.
To that, is added a list of fluids, which
are also allowed on every day.
On each of the 7 days, there
are specific foods added to this base.
(Different foods on each day.) Most of the
additions, not surprisingly, are vegetables
and fruits. However, there are days which
also allow some definitely non-dietary
additions: some starches, baked potato WITH
butter, milk, beef, rice.
Despite these odd additions,
the truth is, the Sacred Heart Diet is NOT
easy. And it can be unpleasant - especially
in its "side effects". But you can deal with
these problems, and we will discuss exactly
how to do that - plus the Full Diet Plan
layout (including the Recipe), in my next
article in this series on: http://celopindietpill.blogspot.com/
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