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Article: How NOT to lose weight.
- Article from:
- Vibrant Life
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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OK, here we go. A quick review of some of the more popular methods that do not work. Saran wraps, saunas, steam baths, rubber suits (sauna suits), rubber waist belts (you cannot spot-reduce--weight comes off the body rather uniformly), diet pills (any pills), shots, grapefruit (sorry, it doesn't burn calories), electrical stimulation of muscles (socalled massive exercises), fasting (you cannot shrink your stomach), severe restriction of calories (so-called starvation diets), high-protein diets, low-carbohydrate diets, skipping meals, drinking eight glasses of water a day (nothing wrong with that; it just won't help keep weight off), very low-calorie liquid diets ...