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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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