I’ll admit it. I, Katie Brown, am on a heath kick. I am saying bye to cheddar cheese Pringles, fatty foods, and my beloved sweets all because I am sick of feeling crummy. Lately my stomach had been hurting to the point where I have to leave school early and with track in full swing, I am sick of the pain. That is why I have chosen to begin what I call a “Healthy Diet”! It consists of eating food that is both good to the taste buds and also for the body. I have been doing some research online looking for recipes and helpful advice and what not when I came across an article talking about the Kimkin’s Diet which later was found out to be a dangerous scam!
If you are like me and had never heard about the scam, here is what went down. Kimkins was started by a woman, she went by Kimmer online, who decided that she would tweak the Atkins diet by making a faster resulting low carbohydrate, low fat, and very low calorie diet known as the Kimkins diet.
The diet plan all seemed okay from the outside, it was even mentioned in Woman’s World magazine, but once the dieter paid the expenseive online membership dues, they were introduced to a whole new plan! Followers are instructed to consume 500 calories or less a day and are told to strive for SNATT. Meaning Semi Nauseous All Day, memembers try to reach this state of permanent nausea because Kimmer told them that meant the diet was working! She also promoted the regular use of laxatives!
What I didn’t understand while reading about this awful scam is why people didn’t question it sooner? Couldn’t they see that their hair loss, fainting and heart palpitations were all related to them not eating? Maybe they choose to see the best in Kimmer, their diet hero, but I can’t see why anybody would go on a diet like that and not see the similarities to such eating disorders like anorexia. Hmm…
If you would like to hear more about the Kimkins Diet and why it was such a scam, visit this website: www.3fatchicks.com/kimkins-anatomy-of-a-diet-scam
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