Conceived by Jamie Kabler, Hollywood Diet has been around since late 1997. Hollywood Diet offers the 24-hour Miracle Diet and the 48-hour Miracle Diet. The plan consists of a fruit-based drink -- period. You don't eat anything else or drink anything else for one to two days, depending on which of the diets you're on. As with anything so extreme, there are some drawbacks.
Contraindications
Hollywood Diet's website cautions against anyone attempting these diets if they are pregnant, breastfeeding, taking any sort of prescribed medication, or if they suffer from diabetes. This is an extremely low-calorie diet and could have harmful effects on such dieters. If any of these conditions apply to you, don't attempt it, especially without speaking to your doctor first.
Side Effects
Users have reported experiencing intestinal cramps, weakness, mental fogginess and fatigue during the one to two days they were on the Hollywood Diet. The manufacturer of these diet drinks recognizes that people will not feel well when attempting this diet, as it recommends that you undertake it on days when you don't have to work or have any other pressing obligations.
Lack of Protein and Nutrients
The "specially formulated" Hollywood Diet juice drink reportedly offers you 100 percent of all the vitamins and nutrients your body needs on a daily basis. But it contains only negligible traces of fats and proteins, both of which the body needs some measure of in order to function.
Extended Use
Kabler recommends that you use his diet at least once a month and that it's safe to do it up to once a week. But medical professionals don't recommend extreme low-calorie diets such as this unless you are so obese that you are at risk for immediate, serious health problems. The Hollywood Diet provides only 500 calories a day, roughly one-third to one-half of the 1,000 to 1,500 calories allotted for in a very low-calorie diet. Restricting your diet to 500 calories a day on a repeated basis can ultimately result in cardiovascular problems. The Hollywood Diet is essentially a means of fasting and should never be tried, much less repeatedly, without clearance from your physician.
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