Kimkins Update from Christin

Be sure to listen to Christin’s Interview on “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show With Jimmy Moore!”

An Update On The Kimkins Lawsuit With Christin Sherburne (Episode 163) | The Livin La Vida Low-Carb Show

 

In today’s episode, Jimmy talks with Christin Sherburne, former cover-girl for Heidi Diaz’s Kimkins diet scheme that hit the big time last year after landing on the cover of Woman’s World magazine. Besides appearing on the cover of that issue of the popular national women’s magazine in support of “Kimmer’s” diet plan, Christin also worked directly for Heidi as the Kimkins PR representative for a few months.

But it was in the process of trying to defend the Kimkins diet and the obvious evasiveness in answering direct questions about the plan by Diaz/Kimmer that she realized there was no scientific basis or medical support for what is now commonly understood to be an extremely low-calorie fat-free, carb-free starvation diet. Amazingly, despite all of the public knowledge about how dangerously unhealthy this diet is and that the founder blatantly lied about losing 200 pounds when in fact she did not, there are still people deeply entrenched in this scam. Christin is hoping this podcast today will open the eyes of those who feel trapped into thinking Kimkins is their only way.

Listen in for Christin’s take on the current class action lawsuit against Heidi Diaz, how she came to grips with realizing that her job as the public relations spokesperson for Kimkins was a sham, and how driven she is to now make sure everyone knows about what Kimkins really is and contrasting that with what a healthy diet looks like. Whether you have been following the Kimkins saga or not, this is sure to be an insightful and informative interview that you’re gonna want to hear.

Disclaimer: Neither Jimmy Moore or Christin Sherburne currently endorse the Kimkins diet. On the contrary, we recommend avoiding it like the plague.

LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 163
– Christin’s page at Jimmy’s forum
– Christin’s “The Journey” blog
– Jimmy’s list of Kimkins links
– RELATED BLOG POST: “Kimkins ‘Cover Girl’ Passionately Declares Diet ‘Dangerous’ After Health Issues Emerge”
– RELATED BLOG POST: “Kimkins Diet Scam Shared On FOX’s ‘The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet’”
– RELATED PODCAST: “Interview: AmyB Speaks Out On The Kimkins Debacle (Episode 123)”
– RELATED PODCAST: “Heidi Diaz: Don’t Let The Door Hit Ya! (Episode 94)”

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Thank you Jimmy and Christin for helping get the word out about the dangerous Kimkins Diet Scam.

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Folks, if you or someone you know has been a victim of the Kimkins Diet Scam, please consider joining the Kimkins Class Action Lawsuit.

Be sure to read more stories about Kimkins Survivors.

 

For more Kimkins info:

Kimkins on About.com

Kimkins on Insider Exclusive

Kimkins on ConsumerAffairs.com

 

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Christin Talks About Kimkins

San Diego County ~ Any former Kimkins Members

Calling ALL Former Kimkins Members in San Diego County:

If you are a former Kimkins member and you reside in San Diego County, John Tiedt would appreciate hearing from you at your earliest convenience.

Please email John or use the Contact Us form on his website.

If you know of any former Kimkins members in San Diego County, please be sure to let them know that John Tiedt is looking for their assistance.

Everyone can help by spreading the word.

Thank you very much for your help.

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For those who may not already know, John Tiedt is the lawyer handling the Kimkins Class Action Lawsuit.

I do hope that all former Kimkins members will consider joining the Kimkins Class Action Lawsuit, if you have not already done so. There is strength in numbers.

If you have already joined the Lawsuit via email, please be sure that you get your affidavit to John as soon as possible.

Remember, if you need any help with completing this, be sure to watch the helpful video.

Thank you!

 

Please feel free to share this with anyone else who might be able to help spread the word.  Thank you!

Letter from John Tiedt

To Plaintiff Class Representatives
and Potential Class Members

Re: Fenderson, et al. v. Diaz, et al.

Dear Friends:

We have been quite busy with the discovery process and several law and motion
issues. The purpose of this letter is to bring you up to date.

Read the rest of the Letter from John Tiedt here:  class-letter-031308.pdf

Thank you, John, for sharing the news with all of us, and for ALL your hard work to see that justice is served in this case.

Folks, if you are a former member of Kimkins, and would like to be part of the Kimkins Class Action Lawsuit, be sure to visit the website for all the information.  Joining the Lawsuit, is very easy to do, plus there is a video to help you complete the related paperwork.

Former Kimkins Members in San Diego County

 If you are a former Kimkins member and you reside in San Diego County,

 John Tiedt would like to hear from you.

 Please email John or use the Contact Us form on his website.

 Thank you very much for your help.

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For those who may not already know, John Tiedt is the lawyer handling the Kimkins Class Action Lawsuit.

I do hope that all former Kimkins members will consider joining the Kimkins Class Action Lawsuit.  There is strength in numbers.  If you have already joined the Lawsuit via email, please be sure that you get your affidavit to John as soon as possible.

Remember, if you need any help with this, be sure to watch the helpful video.

Thank you!

Top Honors for Kimkins

Once again, Kimkins earns top honors by being included in the listing of 25 Of the Most Ridiculous (and Ineffective) Popular Diets at RNCentral.com. 

Congratulations, Heidi!

 I wonder how many of these diets are currently involved in Class Action Lawsuits?

Diet Overkill: 25 Of the Most Ridiculous (and Ineffective) Popular Diets

Published on Tuesday February 26th , 2008

By Jessica Hupp

Some people will do anything to lose weight, even if it means defying common sense and nutrition. But just because your best friend’s cousin lost 20 pounds by drinking hot-peppered lemonade doesn’t mean you should do the same. These 25 diets are not only ridiculous, they’re ineffective and even dangerous.

1. Atkins: Although wildly popular, and quite effective for some people, the Atkins diet is just not sustainable for most dieters. This diet cuts out healthy foods like fruit, and adopts a limited list of foods that are often high in fat and otherwise unhealthy. Above all, this diet’s extreme restriction makes it incredibly difficult for most people to stick with it.
2. The Subway diet: Substituting large, unhealthy meals with a wholesome sandwich is certainly an effective way to lose weight. However, the execution of the Subway diet is what makes this one a failure. This may come as a surprise to some, but not every sandwich at Subway is a dietary winner. You can’t eat 14 meatball subs a week and expect to see pounds come off. For this diet to succeed, you’d have to eat very specific items from Subway’s menu and keep up a strict regimen of exercise. This diet is useless because it’s just as easy to make your own sandwich and take a walk.
3. Cabbage soup diet: Also known as the “Russian peasant diet,” the “Sacred Heart diet,” and “TJ miracle soup diet,” this diet consists of eating a low-calorie cabbage soup for 7 days. It’s generally claimed to cause weight loss of 10 pounds within a week, although most experts believe that sort of weight loss is not possible. Most of the weight lost on this diet is water, so it’s not permanent. It’s also problematic because of a high sodium content, extremely low protein, feelings of weakeness, and increased flatulence.
4. The tapeworm diet: Almost too disgusting to detail, this diet involves swallowing cysts that you’ve dissected out of beef carcass. The plan is to allow the tapeworm to live in you for up to 10 weeks, and then take prescribed medication to kill it. It should go without saying that this is perhaps one of the most dangerous diets you can adopt. It not only requires you to ingest a parasite, it encourages unhealthy eating habits, which are almost guaranteed to make you gain every pound back once the worm is gone.
5. The cereal diet: Like the Subway diet, the cereal diet is silly because it requires you to buy a specific food substitute, and eat it on a regular basis. This diet isn’t effective because of the high quality nutrition cereal offers-cereal is generally full of sugar-but rather because you’re required to measure the amount of food you’re eating. No matter what your diet, monitoring and carefully measuring food to restrict calories will make you lose weight. You don’t need a special cereal to do so.
6. The low fat diet: Nearly everyone has purchased a low or no fat product because we believe that somehow it’s healthier and will help keep the pounds off. But the dirty trick about the low fat diet is that these products aren’t healthier at all-often, you trade fat for more sugar, sodium, or calories. Sometimes, serving sizes are skewed to make an otherwise unhealthy food look better than before.
7. Hallelujah diet: Reverend George M. Malkmus was diagnosed with colon cancer, and instead of getting treatment, he changed his diet to “the original diet God gave mankind.” Although the diet consists mainly of good staples like fruits and vegetables, you can’t just eat produce you’d pick up at the store. No, this diet requires that you mail-order direct from the Reverend’s farm because the general American food supply is devoid of nutrients. Ironically, this diet has been found to cause nutrient deficiencies, and due to its high-fiber and beta carotine content, is less than ideal for cancer patients.
8. South Beach Diet: Although it’s created and promoted by a cardiologist, the South Beach diet is less than ideal. This diet takes you through phases of high restriction and lower restriction, constantly keeping your body on a roller coaster of losing and maintaining weight. Once you begin to regain pounds, you go back to the more restricted phase. Yo-yo diets such as this one are not only ineffective, they’re dangerous to your heart and overall health.
9. Slim Fast: Again, another product-based diet that offers little more than ineffective substitution. In the short term, you will probably see weight loss, but Slim Fast’s shakes and bars are not mentally or physically satisfying enough for the diet to be sustained, especially when you consider that there are healthier, cheaper, and tastier alternatives out there.
10. The chocolate diet: As studies have come out promoting chocolate as a supplement to a healthy diet, the chocolate diet has come out as well. This diet focuses on decreased calorie consumption with liquid chocolate diet shakes. It acts as a vitamin replacement, and although effective in the short term, has not been found to stimulate metabolism or burn fat, as the diet claims. Rather, any weight lost is a direct effect of decreased caloric intake.
11. The Fiengold diet: Dr. Benjamin Feingold created a diet free of chemicals believed to cause ADD and ADHD. This included not only food, but also certain drugs and hygiene items. Although this diet is not physically harmful, and can be helpful in some instances, it’s generally not wise to adopt this regimen. Critics warn against teaching children that food can dictate performance and behavior, and depriving them of appropriate professional help from doctors.
12. The Weight Loss Cure They Don’t Want You to Know About: This diet gives the tapeworm a run for its money. Why? The weight loss “cure” consists of nothing more than ingesting the urine of pregnant women. Whether this is effective or not really doesn’t matter-there is absolutely, positively, a better way to lose weight than injecting yourself with pee.
13. The blood type diet: This confusing diet requires that you eat according to your blood type. For example, if you’re a blood Type A, that means vegetables are your ideal food. The main reason why this diet works at all is because-you guessed it-you’re limiting what you eat. Of course, this can be achieved through portion control, and you can eat what you feel like whether you’re a “hunter,” “nomad,” “cultivator,” or any combination thereof.
14. The Hollywood diet: It should be obvious that drinking nothing but juice is bound to leave you hungry and unsatisfied, but many continue to attempt to use this quick-fix detox program as a way to permanently lose weight. Unfortunately, that’s just not going to happen. This juice has a high sugar content, and nearly all of the weight you’ll lose is water, which will come right back.
15. The Grapefruit diet: This horrible diet is simply unsustainable, offering little nutrition calories, or taste. Even worse, excessive consumption of this acidic citrus fruit could lead to a stomach ulcer. Additionally, grapefruit juice is dangerous when mixed with some medications.
16. Russian Air Force diet: With this diet, you can put a number of herbs, sauces, and spices on your food, but you’ll have a hard time finding a place for all of those extras to land, considering breakfast is coffee, lunch is two eggs and a tomato, and dinner is salad and tiny portion of meat. This simple caloric restriction is just not sustainable, leaving dieters hovering near starvation, and it has a high sodium content.
17. The master cleanse : Also known as the lemon water detox diet, this concoction can’t even really be called a diet because you’re not eating anything. With the master cleanse, you’ll subsist on lemon water with cayenne pepper and maple syrup. Incredibly temporary, any weight loss resulting from this detox will come back almost immediately.
18. The macrobiotic diet: This diet consists primarily of grains, vegetables, and beans, specifically avoiding processed and refined foods. It also requires thorough chewing before swallowing to avoid overeating. Although this is overall good diet advice, the problem with the macrobiotic diet is that it’s often presented as a “cure” for cancer, while many long-term macrobiotics have developed and died from cancer.
19. The Kimkins diet: This Atkins with a twist requires that dieters follow a strict caloric restriction, which as you must know by now, is nothing special. Additionally, this diet is wrapped up in scandal, as the creator claimed to have lost 198 pounds in 6 months, but later gained it all back, and tried to hide this fact from other dieters.
20. The magnetic diet: This diet follows the concept that all foods have magnetism that attracts either health or disease. It requires that you drink only water and eat specific foods with “invigorating magnetism,” and follow an eating schedule that creates a caloric deficit. Despite all of the quackery surrounding the diet, it’s actually a very simple method of eating nutritious foods like fruit, vegetables, and whole grains, combined with portion control and exercise.
21. The hot dog diet: Also known as the three-day diet, this diet is ridiculous because it doesn’t recommend that you eat healthy food-in fact, you’ll eat ice cream as well. Instead, you’ll eat carefully counted portions of food, resulting in the oh-so-familiar calorie restriction that so many ridiculous diets feature.
22. The apple cider vinegar diet: The apple cider vinegar diet succeeds only in making dieters not want to eat at all, mostly because you’re just not likely to be hungry after downing straight vinegar. You drink a few teaspoons of vinegar, which is supposed to supress your appetite. The secret is not that apple cider vinegar is particularly helpful for weight loss, but because reducing portions and exercising are.
23. Dr. Siegal’s cookie diet: The cookie diet is a lot less appealing than it sounds. Like Subway, Slim Fast, and other weight loss fads, this diet requires that you eat specific foods that must be purchased separate from a regular diet. These cookies are high protein, but there’s really nothing special about the diet except that it’s extremely low in calories. What’s more, you’re likely to get very tired of eating cookies day in and day out.
24. Wu-Yi Tea diet: Although it’s presented as a natural cure endorsed by Oprah and Rachel Ray, that couldn’t be farther from the truth about Wu-Yi tea. There’s absolutely nothing special about this particular tea. It’s just oolong tea, and it offers no more benefits than the tea you can pick up at your grocery or health store.
25. The Martha’s Vineyard diet: Just like the Hollywood diet, this detox requires that you drink nothing but juice for a specific period of time. Again, this will only help you lose weight in the short term, and you’ll gain every pound back once you realize there’s more to life than drinking vegetable juice all day.

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 Personally, I don’t think Atkins or South Beach really belong on this list, but I guess everyone is entitled to their own opinions.

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Back in skinny jeans: The Most Ridiculous Diets revisited

Website lists top 25 worst fad diets – That’s Fit

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abc13.com: Online diet comes under scrutiny

HealthCheck

Online diet comes under scrutiny

Monday, January 21, 2008 | 7:03 AM

  

LOS ANGELES, CA — An online dieting program which promises big weight loss results in record time has raised suspicions and resulted in a possible class action lawsuit.

Click here to read the rest of the story!

Harmed by Kimkins? Share your Story on National TV

Have you experienced medical problems due to Kimkins?

Do you have any medically documented health issues related to the
Kimkins Diet?

Do you have some free time this weekend for an exciting opportunity to appear from the comfort of your home, on national television, in a prime time spotlight?

If you have suffered any of the following doctor verified medical conditions:

• Dizziness
• Nausea
• Muscle fatigue or weakness
• Heartbeat palpitations
• Moderate to severe hair loss
• Bone and joint pain
• Mental changes – irritability, forgetfulness, confusion
• Bowel complications/symptoms of laxative abuse

as a result of your experience with the Kimkins Diet, and would like this exciting opportunity to share your experiences with the public, please contact KimkinsonABC@gmail.com within the next 48 hours.

No travel will be required, an ABC crew will come to you to discuss your experience.

If you know of anyone who fits the above-mentioned medical criteria, please share this contact information with them for this important opportunity.

Jimmy Moore’s Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb? Blog: Harmed By The Kimkins Diet? ABC News Wants To Hear From YOU!
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UPDATE ~

Be sure to tune into Good Morning America Weekend Edition  on Sunday, January 20th, to watch the segment on the Kimkins Diet Scam.

What Can I DO To Help?

I hear that alot.

I get it in private messages or emails, I see it on message boards.

What can YOU do to help?  Lots of things.

IF you were a “paying” victim of the Kimkins Diet Scam, you can sign up for the Kimkins Class Action Lawsuit, and you can share your story with the Kimkins Survivors blog.

IF you followed the diet, but didn’t pay to join the Kimkins.com website, you can still share your story with the folks at the Kimkins Survivors blog.  The more stories shared, the better chance we have of warning folks from trying this at home.

So, you never joined the site and you never followed the diet, but you still want to know what you can do to help?  Lots of things.

Check out the list on the Take Action Now page.  There are lots of suggestions for things to do to help there.  Print off the list, and maybe try tackling one or two items a day, depending on the free time you have available.  Start with Signing the Petition, be sure to file a Ripoff Report and work your way all the way down to Troubleshooter.com.  Each individual link will help.  Each one you complete will be another great contribution to the cause.

“Ok”, you say, “I’ll work on that list, a little at a time.  Is there anything ELSE I can do to help?”  

Absolutely!

Do you blog?  If so, blog a little about your feelings about Kimkins.  Blog a little about warning folks to stay away from Kimkins.  Consider joining the Say “NO” to Kimkins Web Ring.

If you don’t blog, have you ever wanted to?   WordPress.com makes it very easy to get started.  Give it some thought.  A blog is an excellent way to speak your mind, share your views, communicate to the world, to encourage folks to Say NO to Kimkins.

Be sure to visit the anti-kk blogs and support the bloggers by leaving comments on their blogs, and maybe share your favorite anti-kk links with them.

 Do you have a MySpace page?  If so, be sure to include some links on your page to warn folks away from Kimkins.  MySpace is an area very full of our teens, and we really should be sure that they are aware of the Dangers of Kimkins.

 Do you post in forums, on message boards, with email groups, etc?  Consider adding your favorite anti-kk links to your signature, to help spread the word.

We have seen KTLA, FOX’s The Morning Show, and KVUE spotlight the Kimkins Scam, but what about YOUR local news?  Consider checking out your local news stations’ websites.  See if they have a link to report news, or a tip line.  Share some Kimkins information and links with them, and perhaps they will pick up the story.  Diets are big news during the first of the year, with New Year’s Resolutions and all.

Every thing we DO to help is a contribution to the cause.  It doesn’t have to be anything big; an email here, a link shared there, a comment posted on a blog, some words of encouragement along the way, it ALL  helps.

There is strength in numbers.

Together we CAN make a difference.

Thank you EVERYONE!  Your contributions count!

If you have suggestions or more ideas for how to help, please be sure to post them in the comments section below.

WELCOME—GLAD YOU STOPPED BY

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to the home page for the Say “No” to Kimkins web ring. We are thrilled you chose to stop by.

We are DUCKS who are dedicated to spreading the word: Say “NO” to Kimkins.

It is our mission to ensure that everyone is aware of the dangers of the Kimkins Diet Scam. 

If you have a Kimkins related blog or website, we encourage you to team up with us and join our web ring.  Just click on the “JOIN” button on the right side of this page. 

To see all the DUCKS who are already members of this web ring, click on the “LIST” button.  We do encourage you to wander through all the pages on our web ring by clicking the “NEXT” or “RANDOM” buttons.

 We hope you’ll become a part of our team, and we look forward to working with you.

This blog will also help to chronicle the Kimkins events and happenings along the journey to the 404 Page Not Found error message.