"Jenny" wrote in message ...
Is it possible you are confusing Dr. Stanley K. Berstein with Dr. Richard
Bernstein, the very low carb author of "Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Soultion?"
Anyone following the latter's diet will most certainly be low carbing.

Details at: http://www.diabetes-normalsugars.com

Hi Jenny,

I'm not confusing the two Dr Bernstein's, unfortunately though, I
suspect there have been people who have, thus why I'm breaking my
silence about this stupid company. I posted partially to give
something to the pot, so that when people do a search, that something
comes up about this 500 calorie a day idiocy. One is R.K Bernstein,
the author/diabetes solution, the other goes by S.K. Bernstein.
(that's what's on his so called recipe book and diet manual) I think
it's more than slight coincidence that there is such a close name
similarity and that these clinics do little to dispell the notion that
they're not associated with the REAL low carb way of eating and food
selection. I realize it's a local (Ontario/British Columbia/Canada)
center and issue, but I wanted to make sure that people had some
reference between the two.

The more I've reasearched, the more I see this so called Diet Clinic
as very very suspicious, and that local doctors are starting to speak
out against it. Frankly, my anger over the results of my research
finally hit an all time high when I heard yet another so called
"local" minor celebrity promote this starvation diet as "low carb".
This company is getting clients under false free promotion, and
frankly I believe all it's doing is preying on people's desparation,
and confusion.

Hell, I even heard a radio advert last week saying that 75% of his
clients don't gain back their weight. Imagine that. I say call
Nobel! Imagine that telling people to starve on 500 calories a day
(which countless other clinics in the past in North America have also
tried to promote this and failed with recivism rates of well over
95%!), but somehow through the grace of the science fairies, this
place has managed to decrease the regain rate to 25%!? Thats a
freaking science miracle! *sarcasm* Incidently, I haven't heard the
radio spot since, I suspect somebody complained about the false
claims.

I think it's fair to say that there's been enough actual medical
research to indicate that actually trying to live on a 500 calorie a
day diet, is absolutely dangerous. You're screwing up your
metabolism, and after you get off it, you're going to have to work
even harder to repair it and get your metabolismism off of starvation
mode.

AW