Dr Bernstein's Clinic (Canada) IS NOT Low Carb!

Just a heads up to our Canadian Low Carbers about a website article
regarding CJOH's Leigh Chapple's weight loss by LOW CARB. I believe
to call what she did as low carb is inaccurate and misleading.

If Ms Chapel did the DR. Stanley K Bernstein's diet, it does NOT
follow the common diet plans of low carb eating. This diet is only
500 calories a day. Unlike CJOH's website, I BOTHERED to calculate
the actual caloric/carb etc intake of this highly questionable diet
plan. I bothered to GET the literature and calculate the "Sample
Menus" from their Diet Manual.

This thing is nothing more than a VERY EXPENSIVE! ($100 - $125 per
week) VERY LOW CALORIE diet.

I think this low calorie diet is questionable and foolish and I'm not
the only one who thinks so. Have a look at what the competitor CBC TV
station, said about this diet on their program Market Place. THEY
also had independent people (a doctor and a registered dietician) do
the calculations of the diet, and came with calculations of 500
calories a day or UNDER! They had a few other doctors from Harvard
etc, also raising the issue of the danger of very low calorie diets,
as well. Read the articles from the CBC, and notice that this Dr
Bernstein character doesn't even know the actual caloric amount of the
diet that bares his name, and actually states it's almost double the
REAL caloric intake. (850 or 900 as opposed to 500 and under.)

http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/f...et/index2.html
http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/f...iet/index.html
http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/f...et/report.html


Here's a sample of the menu DIRECTLY taken from the literature
(Diet MANUAL) the patients are given!


(These Numbers where verified by Corinne T. Netzer's Food Count Book,
and also food count software.)

(Sunday - Week One) Page 25 of the so called "Diet Manual".

(Breakfast)
Orange Cal/69 Carb/17.4 Protein/1.1
2 Triskets Cal/42 Carb/ 6.2 Protein/1.0

(Lunch)
3.5 oz Tuna Cal/70 Carb/0.0 Protein/15.0
8 oz Lettuce Cal/10 Carb/2.0 Protein/ 0.8
1 apple Cal/81 Carb/21.0 Protein/ 0.3

(Dinner)
3.5 oz Shrimp Cal/120 Carb/1.0 Protein/23.0
4 oz Tomato Cal/32 Carb/7.0 Protein/1.3
4 oz Lettuce Cal/5 Carb/1.0 Protein/0.4
1 Melba toast Cal/17 Carb/3.4 Protein/0.6


TOTALS Cal/447 Carb/59 Protein/43.5


There are other stupid choices such as a breakfast consisting of a cup
of Jello Light (at 7 calories) and 2 melba toasts(34 calories). (Week
1, Breakfast - Thursday), And this is supposed to be HEALTHY eating
and a good breakfast?

BOTTOM line,...it's under 500 calories a freakin' day!!!!!!! You'd
have to have the IQ of a bloody puddle to think this kind of diet is
actually healthy and that you're going to able to maintain a healthy
weight, and/or retain your weightloss after you inevitably get off of
it. The only one who would appear to win at this game is the owner of
these UNREGULATED "diet clinics" who one might also suggest, count on
the well documented, self perpetuating diet industry's revolving door.
Talk about the perfect cash cow, they keep getting paid each time you
have to go back to try to maintain or re-lose the weight your body
WILL inevitably regain after a 500 calorie a day, metabolically
detrimental starvation! There are countless articles online both
about the recidivism rate and failure rate of very low calorie diets.
I suggest a general perusal of the New England Journal of Medicine
articles would be a good place for some CJOH folks to start.

It's amazing how many people will NOT do any real research on these
scientifically out dated diets and/or just assume that because it's
got the word "Dr" in the company name, that it must be medically sound
and that some government organization somewhere is closely watching so
that people aren't getting shafted or their health threatened. It's
further astounding that there will be people who'll never bother to
cross check the actual common place diet plans that advocate "Low
CARB" and instead will just see some TV Host lost weight on TV, they
know the newest thing is Low Carb and that somebody somewhere
suggested that some diet clinic is low carb too. Simple math and an
hour of reading would be enough research to see that this diet does
not qualify. Sure, I suppose 60 grams of carbs is less than scarfing
down an extra large all dressed pizza, but to use wording "low carb"
that in itself suggests that this diet in anyway follows in the
footsteps of the Low Carb pioneers such as Atkins/Protein Power and
their recent affirmation from the New England Journal of Medicine, is
complete and total dishonesty. Shame on CJOH for not bothering to be
much more clear on their Website about the actual facts of this diet!
Double shame on any diet center who's using Low Carb in their dogma,
when in fact the only thing it really is, is a highly restrictive,
very low calorie diet.

It's my experience that this particular diet clinics patients have
been twisted into thinking it's LOW Carb, a la Atkins. As a side
note, it's very interesting that this Dr Stanley K Bernstein's Diet
Center name is so similar to another Stanley Bernstein (the reknowned
Dr Stanley R. Bernstein's, an author and actual advocate of actual
healthy and reasonable Low Carb eating - Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes
Solution). I've spoken to a few clients from one local Dr B diet
center, who swore it was "low carb" a la Atkins. Which, if they were
told this, is IMO a smoke and mirrors nonsense, if not right out lies.

This Dr Stanley K Bernstein's diet, is nothing more than a Very Low
Calorie diet by a diet centre who is not adequately regulated by the
Feds or the Province of Ontario. Neither Health Canada nor the Ontario
Ministry of Health regulates diet clinics. (Source, CBC) Plus, their
"substitute" foods are NOT labeled, bilingual, calorie or otherwise,
which the way I read it, is probably a contrivention of the The Food
and Drugs Act and the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act.

http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/c-38/35565.html

Lastly since they're giving actual needle injections of vitamins and
are charging for it, I wonder if this constitutes "For Pay" health
care. (Ontario voters will know what I'm talking about here). They
have patients also bring in urine to check for ketones. I have to
wonder what is happening to their bodies if they're consuming 60 grams
of carbs and are still in ketosis!