Hollywood Diet Examined

The Hollywood Diet is something that appears on late-night television infomercials, and, contrary to its name, is not something that anyone in their right mind in Hollywood would ever use. A-list celebrities tend to maintain their weight through carefully controlled and monitored regimens of nutrition and exercise, not through cheap diet fads.

This diet promises rapid weight loss – ten pounds in forty-eight hours. All you need is to continually drink the miracle Hollywood Diet juice, which provides all the vitamins and minerals your body needs. It’s an easy way to meet your body’s nutritional needs while drinking only juice, detoxifying the body AND losing tons of weight all at the same time. Right?

Wrong. This diet is nothing short of downright dangerous. Let us for a moment ignore the fact that the diet markets its mysterious souped up product as being “miraculous.” Even if the juice does contain all the vitamins and minerals it says it does (and there is nothing to really say it does since it is not regulated or monitored by the FDA) it should not be accepted even for a moment that that the vitamins, minerals and paltry amounts of sugar found in the miracle juice could satisfy the body’s nutritional needs. This would be a disastrous misconception. Every last one of the basic food groups is important to the body in its own way. Carbohydrates fuel the brain and nervous systems. Fats are the primary fuel of the cardiac muscle. Proteins are absolutely necessary to create tissue, enzymes, and hormones.

Going without these basic building blocks starves the body completely and causes dangerous metabolic changes to occur. Most people experience headaches, weakness, nausea, tremors, dizziness, fainting…and the list just goes on. Proponents of the diet insist that these feelings are simply the side effects of toxins leaving the body. Funny how toxins leaving the body produces symptoms that are identical to those produced by starvation, no? What we see occurring as a result of this diet is simply the body crying out to be fed.

The rapid weight loss that consumers are promised? Since it is a proven fact that the body can only healthily lose one or two pounds a week, one is left to wonder what on earth is being lost instead. Researchers have discovered that the starvation mode caused by diets like the Hollywood diet causes severe water loss. In other words, despite drinking liters of the miracle juice, the body is still being dehydrated at an alarming rate. Furthermore, the body begins to break down its own tissue to use as fuel, truly a desperate move, but indeed a necessary one if coma and death are to be avoided.

In conclusion, the Hollywood Diet is not really a “diet” at all because it does not even involve food. It is beyond misguided. It is actually downright dangerous.