(Elisse R. Y. Meshake) wrote in message ...
i've learned a few things about dr. bernstein's diet in the past
couple of months that i find a little hinkey, yet if this diet has worked
so well for leigh cathedral, er.. i mean chappel.. i gotta hand it to her
because there is no way i could have ever followed it.. i got a menu plan
from a friend of mine and just about blew a nut when i saw the
**** you gotta eat.. anyways, back to my point.. i go to a large family
doctor clinic in the south end and i was told by my doctor that the clinic
refuses to treat ANY one who is on the bernstein diet. apparently they
have seen so many people with complications and regained weight that they just
don't want to be a part of it. the most serious complications i heard of
was heart failure and gallstones. yikes...


Well, yeah, it's great the people are motivated enough to follow it,
but the problem isn't doing it (as my husband's doc said, losing
weight is the easy part, keeping it off, an entirely different
matter!) It's trying to keep it off, once you stop going to this
stupid place and you are no longer getting the vitamin shots. (Which
I have been told is pure B12)...so ok, if that's the case, between 2
and 4 weeks once it's all out of your body, you're going to start to
feel really tired again...and that alone is one of the ways to keep
these clients coming in for maintainance through the revolving door.

The other problem is again the health risks you stated. And yep, if
it's in the south end, you very well might be in the same doc clinic
that I belong to, and my doc just about blew a gasket when I showed
her my research. Refusal to treat anyone who's on this foolish diet
is beginning to become more common. I can only hope that some of
these good docs will come out publically and condemn this foolishness.

I'm also aware that they have their own set of docs and that your
file/blood work numbers doesn't go to your OWN doctor. Another
revolving door tactic, IMO. Interesting that one of the persons I
know of, their official doc appointment was 6 weeks after the diet
started and just so happened to be 2 weeks before they'd be due for
yet another payment installment for a further 8 weeks. How convenient.

Also know of one patient who told the 'clinic' she was going to
celebrate with a big booze binge after 8 weeks on the plan. Very
nice, but at 500 calories a day, the alcohol sugar spike would be SO
big that, one can only imagine how taxing that was on the body,
kidneys etc. I knew a kid back in the 80's who was also on one of
these moronic type diets, drank a bottle of wine with a friend to
celebrate going off of the diet at her target weight. She was rushed
to the emergency room. Her kidneys couldn't handle it.

AW