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I Got this enema bag, I actualy lost 5 lb in one week
Hope no one is offended.
Just thought some people here may be interested in where to get a good enema bag Kit They also have a good enema soap that comes with the bags and a herbal body detox program that was good Any way, take a look if you think you may be interested http://www.EnemaKit.com Some people here may want to try that Mary |
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I Got this enema bag, I actualy lost 5 lb in one week
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wrote: Hope no one is offended. Just thought some people here may be interested in where to get a good enema bag Kit They also have a good enema soap that comes with the bags and a herbal body detox program that was good Any way, take a look if you think you may be interested http://www.EnemaKit.com Some people here may want to try that Mary What an ass-a-nine suggestion!LOL. -- Diva ***** The Best Man for the Job May Be A Woman |
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I Got this enema bag, I actualy lost 5 lb in one week
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Just thought some people here may be interested in where to get a good enema bag Kit I just eat a healthy diet that has fiber: legumes, whole grains, fruit, vegtables, flax Some people here may want to try that Are you implying that some people are "full of it" on usenet? Steve |
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I Got this enema bag, I actualy lost 5 lb in one week
LOL!!! Carol you kill me lol Susan 260/192/140 "Carol Frilegh" wrote in message ... In article , Mary wrote: Hope no one is offended. Just thought some people here may be interested in where to get a good enema bag Kit They also have a good enema soap that comes with the bags and a herbal body detox program that was good Any way, take a look if you think you may be interested http://www.EnemaKit.com Some people here may want to try that Mary What an ass-a-nine suggestion!LOL. -- Diva ***** The Best Man for the Job May Be A Woman |
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I Got this enema bag, I actualy lost 5 lb in one week
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om... Hope no one is offended. Just thought some people here may be interested in where to get a good enema bag Kit They also have a good enema soap that comes with the bags and a herbal body detox program that was good Any way, take a look if you think you may be interested http://www.EnemaKit.com Some people here may want to try that You are are so FOS... Mary |
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I Got this enema bag, I actualy lost 5 lb in one week
Mary wrote:
Hope no one is offended. By spam? Why, yes, I am. In fact, it is so offensive that it is against the rules of decent conduct on every usenet group on which you posted. It turns out that we are ALL trying to make a living. Selling our products and services in this (social) forum will quickly drown out the usefulness of usenet. Therefore, it's against the rules. So stick it up your ass. Dally |
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I Got this enema bag, I actualy lost 5 lb in one week
Dally wrote:
So stick it up your ass. The spam or her enema ? Steve http://www.geocities.com/beforewisdom/ "The great American thought trap: It is not real unless it can be seen on television or bought in a shopping mall" |
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Dangers of detox diets (Aus report)
Mary wrote:
Just thought some people here may be interested in where to get a good enema bag Kit They also have a good enema soap that comes with the bags and a herbal body detox program that was good "Detox" marketers are as full of **** as you were. The Weekend Australian The dangers of detox diets By Emily Smith May 08, 2004 After a Christmas or Easter break the inevitable cry of "I'm detoxing" is heard around the Western world with people signing up for a two-day or two-week diet designed to fix all the ills of a long weekend or lifetime of poor diet and pollutants. But is detoxing really as effective or safe as commonly believed? Dietitians have been fighting the misconceptions surrounding detox diets for years and say that not only are the diets ineffective but they can also be dangerous. Tania Ferraretto is a privately practising dietitian and spokesperson for the Dietitians Association of Australia. Dr Ferraretto sees a dozen people a year after Christmas who have been on detox diets and says that while increasing fruit and vegetable intake is desirable for most people, short-term diets will not affect long-term health. "They usually come to see me because the diet is not working or having the effects they expected," she says. "I recently saw a woman, she was in her 30s ,and wanted to lose weight and started on a restricted diet of fruit and vegetables. When she came to me, saying that the diet was not working, she displayed the classic symptoms: tiredness and lethargy, constipation and bad breath." But Ferraretto says while these are relatively mild symptoms, if a diet involves restricted food intake over a long period more serious conditions can develop, varying from bowel and respiratory problems to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Many detox diets also prescribe copious amounts of water that can, in extreme cases, result in water toxicity, or hyponatraemia; when sodium levels and other body salts, or electrolytes, in the blood are too dilute. The dangers of hyponatraemia and detoxing were seen in a case in Britain last year when The Times reported a 23-year-old man going into a coma for four days after a 21-day detox diet of fruit, vegetables, juice and water. The lack of sodium combined with at least five litres of water a day caused his sodium levels to drop and his brain to swell. It is easy to see how detoxing can look attractive, in theory. Most detox diets assert that too much of the wrong sorts of food, a polluted environment, and unhealthy habits such as drinking and smoking contribute to a build-up of poisonous substances in the body. According to the theories, by adhering to a diet of "pure" foods you will purge yourself of poisons and undo the damage wreaked on your health. The purported solution commonly involves drinking two litres or more of water, accompanied by fruit or vegetable juice and unlimited consumption of raw fruit and vegetables. Meat, dairy and starches such as bread or pasta are usually recommended in small amounts or excluded all together. However, recent US trials of detox plans at the University of Southern California found that none of the prominent detox diets, including a version of the popular liver-cleansing diet and the fruit-juice diet, lived up to the claims that they would purge environmental toxins over and above what the body does naturally. Clare Collins, a consultant dietitian from the University of Newcastle, says that while there is merit in encouraging people to increase their fruit and vegetable intake, the misconception is that excluding food groups will give the body a rest, or that the body even needs a rest. "Your body detoxes naturally all the time through the liver and the kidneys," Dr Collins says. "And reducing your food intake is not going to speed up the process or compensate for bad foods, and may, in fact, end up doing more harm than good." The irony, Collins explains, is that the fasting can actually slow down the rate of the natural elimination of toxins by the body. Lowering energy consumption slows down metabolism and reducing or eliminating protein, found in meat and fish, can slow the function of the liver. "This is why the physical symptoms of a long-term detox diet are very similar to someone undertaking a fast." The physical symptoms of a fast can include headaches, constipation and bad breath - a result of your body burning muscle. Many advocates of detoxification diets believe these symptoms are signs that the body is detoxing, purging itself of poisons - a theory Collins refutes. "Some religions use fasting as part of their spiritual practice, and over short periods this is fairly safe." But while these spiritual fasts - such as Ramadan in Islam and the Jewish Yom Kippur, allow food to be consumed at certain times with followers "planning" their intake to avoid hunger - most detox programs advocate 48 hours to seven days of a strict dietary regimen, with some recommending up to 21 days of restricted eating. Collins says the most extreme example of a spiritual detox in Australia is the now infamous Breatharian diet, where a Brisbane woman died after a week of "consuming" nothing but air. Lani Morris believed that the black bile she was coughing was a result of the physical and spiritual cleansing of the 21-day initiation diet that advocated no food or water for a week and then two weeks of nothing but orange juice. Morris, 53, died on July 1, 1999, suffering from pneumonia, dehydration, kidney failure and stroke. "Once someone is in a fasting state it can become difficult for them to think rationally," Collins says. "Your electrolytes become disturbed and you stop thinking rationally; you are easy to control." People who fast for prolonged periods also face a higher risk of what Collins calls the "refeeding syndrome". "If you have fasting for a long period of time, you can't start eating normally because your cell content is disturbed. If you try and ingest huge amounts of calories you can die," Collins says. Ferraretto agrees with Collins that the psychology of a detox diet can appeal to people who are already vulnerable to control issues surrounding food, and that when taken to the extreme - such as in the case of the Breatharian diet - detox diets can become eating disorders. The high availability of various detox diets, from books, magazines and the Internet to alternative medicine practitioners, means people who are vulnerable to eating disorders can attach themselves to a diet as a way of controlling their relationship with food. Earlier this year Ferraretto treated a 15-year-old girl who started on a detox diet of fruit and vegetables but, after the two-week period of the diet was up, found herself unable to go back to eating normal food. By the time she saw Ferraretto, she was exhibiting the physical symptoms of anorexia nervosa, had vitamin deficiencies, couldn't concentrate at school and her hair had started to fall out. "She was already vulnerable, and was prescribed this diet by a natural medicine practitioner," Ferraretto says. This is a story familiar to Anna Harvey, a support worker in Adelaide for the Eating Disorder Association, who has seen eating disorder patients subscribing to bizarre detoxification diets. She recently met a young girl who had restricted herself to a diet of offal - animal brains and kidneys - for six weeks after being prescribed it by a naturopath to rehabilitate supposed deficiencies. "When this girl came to us she could hardly leave the house and although she hated what she was eating, she couldn't stand to eat anything else," Harvey says. But while the length and content of detox diets varies dramatically, is there any evidence that the basic detox diet consisting of a fruit and vegetable "overload" will help you at all? Trent Watson is a nutritionist from the University of Newcastle studying the effects of anti-oxidants on the performance of athletes. "A fruit and vegetable binge will fill your body with anti-oxidants, but how much good that is going to do you is very questionable," Watson says. His research has focused on the comparison between anti-oxidants found naturally in vegetables and those in vitamin supplements, and their effectiveness in fighting free radicals, oxidants naturally produced by the body, especially when exercising or in times of stress. Watson found that excess consumption of double the recommended intake of fruit and vegetables helped athletes when they were in training, and producing more free radicals, but had no extra beneficial effect when they were at rest. "The detox diet operates under the same quick-fix philosophy as vitamin tablets," he says. "And whole fruit and vegetables provide anti-oxidants in the best quantities and combinations possible, and these need to be ingested regularly, five serves every day. "Having 10 serves a day for a week, and then eating none for a week, is not the answer." Watson warns against the idea that anti-oxidants can be made up through vitamin supplements and says these quick-fix solutions can end up harming the body. A study from the US National Cancer Institute in 1994 published in the New England Journal of Medicine looked at the effects of beta carotene, a well-known anti-oxidant with cancer-fighting properties, on the incidence of lung cancer in men. One group of men were (sic) put on a balanced diet high in fruit and vegetables high in beta-carotene or pro-vitamin A, found in orange foods such as carrot and sweet potato. The next group was given beta-carotene supplements and the final group was given a placebo. Not only did the group with the fruit and vegetable intake get a lower incidence of cancer, but the group taking the supplements had a higher incidence of cancer than the placebo group and the trial had to be terminated. "Concentrating anti-oxidants in a tablet do not give you the same benefits as fruit and vegetables because you need the other vitamins found in the vegetable to get the benefits of the anti-oxidant." Watson says that so far his research has confirmed that fruit and vegetables seem to have the anti-oxidants in the right amount and balance for your body, but that eating a diet of just fruit and vegetables can be as ineffective as not eating them at all. "Fruit and vegetables need to be part of a balanced diet," he says. "The anti-oxidants won't work as well if your metabolism has dropped, because you are not eating adequate amounts of carbohydrate and protein needed to process the vitamins." Watson and the dietitian association advocate long-term eating plans that incorporate the five food groups, with at least five serves of vegetables (two cups) and two pieces of fruit a day. Most people can make some improvements by increasing their intake of fruit and vegetables. The last National Nutrition Survey, taken in 1995, showed that Australians are only consuming half the recommended intake of fruit and vegetables. Ferraretto claims that people need to understand that food is not going to detoxify the body and should stop seeking answers in ready-made solutions. "Many of the claims made by the now famous liver-cleansing diet are fairly unsubstantiated," she says. "Your liver, like the rest of your body, does its job best when you are eating a balanced diet, including carbohydrates and protein." Collins says the celebrity status of many detox diets - such as the orange food diet and the raw food diet - create misconceptions that many foods such as meat and dairy are loaded with toxins. For many people, it is easy to believe that "toxins" are responsible for feeling sluggish or for being overweight. "Our food supply in the Western world is quite safe. And fruit and vegetables also contain bac teria that need to be broken down by the body," she says. "Most detoxifying diets rest on the myth that you are somehow flushing the system, and you have to wonder why people feel the need to do that. "While the minerals and vitamins in fruit and vegetables are undeniably good for you, they cannot do a better job of cleansing the system than your liver and your kidneys." Watson feels that while fad diets capture people's attention, if only for a short time, it is healthy eating that needs a marketing makeover. "People are bored with the concept of a balanced diet, but so far it is the only one that has been shown to make a real impact on long-term health," he says. "Nutrition isn't rocket science." -- end article --- -- jamie ) "There's a seeker born every minute." |
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Dangers of detox diets (Aus report)
One part of this is what I have posted here before.
Supplements do not necessarily provide benefits when it comes to anti-oxidants. So taking pills for vitamins instead of eating your fruit and veggies is not only a waste of money but can be dangerous. "jamie" wrote in message ... Mary wrote: Just thought some people here may be interested in where to get a good enema bag Kit They also have a good enema soap that comes with the bags and a herbal body detox program that was good "Detox" marketers are as full of **** as you were. The Weekend Australian The dangers of detox diets By Emily Smith May 08, 2004 After a Christmas or Easter break the inevitable cry of "I'm detoxing" is heard around the Western world with people signing up for a two-day or two-week diet designed to fix all the ills of a long weekend or lifetime of poor diet and pollutants. But is detoxing really as effective or safe as commonly believed? Dietitians have been fighting the misconceptions surrounding detox diets for years and say that not only are the diets ineffective but they can also be dangerous. Tania Ferraretto is a privately practising dietitian and spokesperson for the Dietitians Association of Australia. Dr Ferraretto sees a dozen people a year after Christmas who have been on detox diets and says that while increasing fruit and vegetable intake is desirable for most people, short-term diets will not affect long-term health. "They usually come to see me because the diet is not working or having the effects they expected," she says. "I recently saw a woman, she was in her 30s ,and wanted to lose weight and started on a restricted diet of fruit and vegetables. When she came to me, saying that the diet was not working, she displayed the classic symptoms: tiredness and lethargy, constipation and bad breath." But Ferraretto says while these are relatively mild symptoms, if a diet involves restricted food intake over a long period more serious conditions can develop, varying from bowel and respiratory problems to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Many detox diets also prescribe copious amounts of water that can, in extreme cases, result in water toxicity, or hyponatraemia; when sodium levels and other body salts, or electrolytes, in the blood are too dilute. The dangers of hyponatraemia and detoxing were seen in a case in Britain last year when The Times reported a 23-year-old man going into a coma for four days after a 21-day detox diet of fruit, vegetables, juice and water. The lack of sodium combined with at least five litres of water a day caused his sodium levels to drop and his brain to swell. It is easy to see how detoxing can look attractive, in theory. Most detox diets assert that too much of the wrong sorts of food, a polluted environment, and unhealthy habits such as drinking and smoking contribute to a build-up of poisonous substances in the body. According to the theories, by adhering to a diet of "pure" foods you will purge yourself of poisons and undo the damage wreaked on your health. The purported solution commonly involves drinking two litres or more of water, accompanied by fruit or vegetable juice and unlimited consumption of raw fruit and vegetables. Meat, dairy and starches such as bread or pasta are usually recommended in small amounts or excluded all together. However, recent US trials of detox plans at the University of Southern California found that none of the prominent detox diets, including a version of the popular liver-cleansing diet and the fruit-juice diet, lived up to the claims that they would purge environmental toxins over and above what the body does naturally. Clare Collins, a consultant dietitian from the University of Newcastle, says that while there is merit in encouraging people to increase their fruit and vegetable intake, the misconception is that excluding food groups will give the body a rest, or that the body even needs a rest. "Your body detoxes naturally all the time through the liver and the kidneys," Dr Collins says. "And reducing your food intake is not going to speed up the process or compensate for bad foods, and may, in fact, end up doing more harm than good." The irony, Collins explains, is that the fasting can actually slow down the rate of the natural elimination of toxins by the body. Lowering energy consumption slows down metabolism and reducing or eliminating protein, found in meat and fish, can slow the function of the liver. "This is why the physical symptoms of a long-term detox diet are very similar to someone undertaking a fast." The physical symptoms of a fast can include headaches, constipation and bad breath - a result of your body burning muscle. Many advocates of detoxification diets believe these symptoms are signs that the body is detoxing, purging itself of poisons - a theory Collins refutes. "Some religions use fasting as part of their spiritual practice, and over short periods this is fairly safe." But while these spiritual fasts - such as Ramadan in Islam and the Jewish Yom Kippur, allow food to be consumed at certain times with followers "planning" their intake to avoid hunger - most detox programs advocate 48 hours to seven days of a strict dietary regimen, with some recommending up to 21 days of restricted eating. Collins says the most extreme example of a spiritual detox in Australia is the now infamous Breatharian diet, where a Brisbane woman died after a week of "consuming" nothing but air. Lani Morris believed that the black bile she was coughing was a result of the physical and spiritual cleansing of the 21-day initiation diet that advocated no food or water for a week and then two weeks of nothing but orange juice. Morris, 53, died on July 1, 1999, suffering from pneumonia, dehydration, kidney failure and stroke. "Once someone is in a fasting state it can become difficult for them to think rationally," Collins says. "Your electrolytes become disturbed and you stop thinking rationally; you are easy to control." People who fast for prolonged periods also face a higher risk of what Collins calls the "refeeding syndrome". "If you have fasting for a long period of time, you can't start eating normally because your cell content is disturbed. If you try and ingest huge amounts of calories you can die," Collins says. Ferraretto agrees with Collins that the psychology of a detox diet can appeal to people who are already vulnerable to control issues surrounding food, and that when taken to the extreme - such as in the case of the Breatharian diet - detox diets can become eating disorders. The high availability of various detox diets, from books, magazines and the Internet to alternative medicine practitioners, means people who are vulnerable to eating disorders can attach themselves to a diet as a way of controlling their relationship with food. Earlier this year Ferraretto treated a 15-year-old girl who started on a detox diet of fruit and vegetables but, after the two-week period of the diet was up, found herself unable to go back to eating normal food. By the time she saw Ferraretto, she was exhibiting the physical symptoms of anorexia nervosa, had vitamin deficiencies, couldn't concentrate at school and her hair had started to fall out. "She was already vulnerable, and was prescribed this diet by a natural medicine practitioner," Ferraretto says. This is a story familiar to Anna Harvey, a support worker in Adelaide for the Eating Disorder Association, who has seen eating disorder patients subscribing to bizarre detoxification diets. She recently met a young girl who had restricted herself to a diet of offal - animal brains and kidneys - for six weeks after being prescribed it by a naturopath to rehabilitate supposed deficiencies. "When this girl came to us she could hardly leave the house and although she hated what she was eating, she couldn't stand to eat anything else," Harvey says. But while the length and content of detox diets varies dramatically, is there any evidence that the basic detox diet consisting of a fruit and vegetable "overload" will help you at all? Trent Watson is a nutritionist from the University of Newcastle studying the effects of anti-oxidants on the performance of athletes. "A fruit and vegetable binge will fill your body with anti-oxidants, but how much good that is going to do you is very questionable," Watson says. His research has focused on the comparison between anti-oxidants found naturally in vegetables and those in vitamin supplements, and their effectiveness in fighting free radicals, oxidants naturally produced by the body, especially when exercising or in times of stress. Watson found that excess consumption of double the recommended intake of fruit and vegetables helped athletes when they were in training, and producing more free radicals, but had no extra beneficial effect when they were at rest. "The detox diet operates under the same quick-fix philosophy as vitamin tablets," he says. "And whole fruit and vegetables provide anti-oxidants in the best quantities and combinations possible, and these need to be ingested regularly, five serves every day. "Having 10 serves a day for a week, and then eating none for a week, is not the answer." Watson warns against the idea that anti-oxidants can be made up through vitamin supplements and says these quick-fix solutions can end up harming the body. A study from the US National Cancer Institute in 1994 published in the New England Journal of Medicine looked at the effects of beta carotene, a well-known anti-oxidant with cancer-fighting properties, on the incidence of lung cancer in men. One group of men were (sic) put on a balanced diet high in fruit and vegetables high in beta-carotene or pro-vitamin A, found in orange foods such as carrot and sweet potato. The next group was given beta-carotene supplements and the final group was given a placebo. Not only did the group with the fruit and vegetable intake get a lower incidence of cancer, but the group taking the supplements had a higher incidence of cancer than the placebo group and the trial had to be terminated. "Concentrating anti-oxidants in a tablet do not give you the same benefits as fruit and vegetables because you need the other vitamins found in the vegetable to get the benefits of the anti-oxidant." Watson says that so far his research has confirmed that fruit and vegetables seem to have the anti-oxidants in the right amount and balance for your body, but that eating a diet of just fruit and vegetables can be as ineffective as not eating them at all. "Fruit and vegetables need to be part of a balanced diet," he says. "The anti-oxidants won't work as well if your metabolism has dropped, because you are not eating adequate amounts of carbohydrate and protein needed to process the vitamins." Watson and the dietitian association advocate long-term eating plans that incorporate the five food groups, with at least five serves of vegetables (two cups) and two pieces of fruit a day. Most people can make some improvements by increasing their intake of fruit and vegetables. The last National Nutrition Survey, taken in 1995, showed that Australians are only consuming half the recommended intake of fruit and vegetables. Ferraretto claims that people need to understand that food is not going to detoxify the body and should stop seeking answers in ready-made solutions. "Many of the claims made by the now famous liver-cleansing diet are fairly unsubstantiated," she says. "Your liver, like the rest of your body, does its job best when you are eating a balanced diet, including carbohydrates and protein." Collins says the celebrity status of many detox diets - such as the orange food diet and the raw food diet - create misconceptions that many foods such as meat and dairy are loaded with toxins. For many people, it is easy to believe that "toxins" are responsible for feeling sluggish or for being overweight. "Our food supply in the Western world is quite safe. And fruit and vegetables also contain bac teria that need to be broken down by the body," she says. "Most detoxifying diets rest on the myth that you are somehow flushing the system, and you have to wonder why people feel the need to do that. "While the minerals and vitamins in fruit and vegetables are undeniably good for you, they cannot do a better job of cleansing the system than your liver and your kidneys." Watson feels that while fad diets capture people's attention, if only for a short time, it is healthy eating that needs a marketing makeover. "People are bored with the concept of a balanced diet, but so far it is the only one that has been shown to make a real impact on long-term health," he says. "Nutrition isn't rocket science." -- end article --- -- jamie ) "There's a seeker born every minute." |
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