Posted on 17-06-2008
Filed Under (Health, Lifestyle) by Lissie

Sprinkle Diet the latest is the great cons about weight loss. The Sprinkle Diet claims to make you loose weight by tricking your brain that the special kind of sprinkles developed by Dr. Alan Hirsch of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation. Your brain thinks you’ve eaten more than you have: thus you eat less and loose weight!
Yeah right: first off loosing weight is the easy bit: as every dieter knows keeping it off is the trick and the Sprinkle Diet isn’t helping you on this. Also it sounds positively dangerous: one participant is quoted as saying she was full after eating one piece of sushi. That’s not a diet that’s starvation. If you starve your body all that happens is that you become more efficient at storing weight to prevent death : the next time you diet it will be twice as hard. Most repeat dieters can tell you that they have dieted themselves to their current weight. Get out and exercise: eat a balanced diet: cut the crap food - its really that easy: no I know its not easy but its the only way. Avoid fads like the Sprinkle diet

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Comments

dolly on 19 June, 2008 at 9:31 am #

I’m the girl on the news that eats the one roll of sushi. One roll of sushi is 6 pieces. Not one piece. I’m not starving, thanks to sense I’ve learned how to eat healthy. I now eat 6 small well ballanced meals a day. I loose about 1-2 pounds per week, and I also work out about 2-3 times a week. I need sense to help me eat only the right amount of food that is healthy. Sensa is not an excuse to stuff yourself with junk, it’s a tool to help you learn how to eat the right size portions, and it working for me. Perhaps you should try it for yourself and see what a big help it really is.


Patch on 19 June, 2008 at 10:42 am #

Oh man, I just visted the site for Sensa (the official name of the Sprinkle Diet product — trysensa.com) … let me tell you: please do not waste your money! This gimmick is such a scam! Visit the site and read carefully between the lines. It says that 1)it’s normal to clear everything off your plate even with the sprinkles [so what good are they?] 2) weight loss could take up to 3 months [for women] before you BEGIN to lose weight [for men it's quicker -- and though the Doc doesn't explain why, I will: men have more muscle mass, so burn more calories, esp if active] 3) the sprinkles come in small 0.7 ounce (just a tad over a 1/2 ounce) shakers and cost between $60.00 per month to $375 for 6 months! 4) take a look at the ingrediets — nothing special from regular spices or food additives AT ALL [well, not that he's listing anyway.] 5) Think: what happens when you can’t afford to buy the sprinkles anymore or don’t want to pull out your trusted shaker at the restaurant and be gawked at by everyone else? What happens if, say, you take a week off from sprinkling? A month? WEIGHT GAIN and then some! Wanna bet? This is not new science — you can do this yourself by trial & error adding different spices that cost no more than $3.00 a jar to your meals to liven up your dish and “trick” your mind into fullness. Oh please, do not fall for this lastest gimmick. Don’t jump on the bandwagon because every talk show host and news outlet is giving this the time of day without asking for real proof (let’s see the published results and peer-reviews of the clinical trials — not anecdotes). AARRGH!


Lissie on 20 June, 2008 at 10:11 am #

dolly portion control is well known and documented : Im with patch on this one: the price is outrageous and of course it teaches you nothing about sensible eating just gets you dependent on their expensive product


JoLynn Braley | The Fit Shack on 20 June, 2008 at 6:18 pm #

Hi Lis, I’m totally with ya on this, gave your post another zoom too, and a stumble!

I’m all about creating a healthy lifestyle filled with whole foods sans the processed gunk, which only serves to slow down your metabolism and easily helps you gain weight.

If you want to check out the post I wrote about The Sprinkle Diet, I’d love your feedback on it. :)

http://www.thefitshack.com/200.....wont-work/


Kate on 20 June, 2008 at 6:33 pm #

Actually, this study has been peer reviewed by the Endocrinology Society and the paper has been published in Prague. The study is the largest non-perscription weight-loss study - over 1400 participants. It seems like the proof is in the medical facts.


Lissie on 20 June, 2008 at 7:53 pm #

JoLynn that is a very intelligent review: u make the key point: over-eating has absolutely nothing to do with stopping when u are full. I don’t stop because I have had enough chocolate - I stop because there is no more chocolate left in the house! LOL - I control it my not buying the stuff in the first place not by sprinkling some MSG laced crap on my food!
Kate who the fuck are the Endocinology Scoiety ? Nice long name but are they actuall relevant scientists: I rather suspect that they are much of Industry experts with a vested interest in this one. For one reason if this atually worked it would costs a whole lot more than what the are charging now!


JoLynn Braley | The Fit Shack on 21 June, 2008 at 12:43 am #

Hi Lissie,

So very true - I can’t have the chocolate, cookies, any of that stuff in the house or I’ll “suddenly” be hungry, when I’m not!

My overeating has had nothing to do with physical hunger and actually most people who Diet (I don’t recommend dieting but instead making lifestyle changes) are concerned with staving off hunger.

Sure, when I’m eating healthy, portion controlled meals like I am today I do get hungry and then I look at the time and see it’s because it’s time to eat! Also I’m eating whole foods (the sprinkle diet advocates eating all of the addictive, processed stuff) and my metabolism is speeding up, which means I’ll feel hungry.

That’s natural, why would I want to trick my body into thinking I’m not hungry after eating a bit of processed, low nutrient food?

Boy, there’s yet another reason to stay away from this - trust your own body, eat real food not processed, sugar-filled gunk, and eat when you’re hungry. You don’t need a sprinkled substance to make you think you’re full - it’s yet another diet that creates distrust of the body, always looking for some “fix” outside when all ya have to do is listen to yourself and trust yourself, not some magic potion. ;)


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