[KonaBeans]

It's a diet program that General Motor designs to help their employees.

Source: http://msync.org/hea...MotorsDiet.html



General Motors Weight Loss Diet (Vegetarian Variant)

The following diet and health program was apparently developed for the employees and the dependants of General Motors Inc.
The program was developed in conjunction with the grant from the US Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration. It was first tried at the Johns Hopkins Research Centre and was approved for distribution by the Board of Directors of General Motors Corporation at a general meeting on August 15, 1995. http://msync.org/hea...MotorsDiet.html

General Motors Weight Loss Diet (Vegetarian Variant

The following diet and health program was apparently developed for the employees and the dependants of General Motors Inc.
The program was developed in conjunction with the grant from the US Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration. It was first tried at the Johns Hopkins Research Centre and was approved for distribution by the Board of Directors of General Motors Corporation at a general meeting on August 15, 1995.

General Motors Corporation wholly endorsed this program and is making it available to all employees and families. This program will be available at all General Motors Food service facilities.
It is the management's intention to facilitate a welfare and fitness program for everyone.

· Some explanations, and commentary on this diet can be found here.

· A poll, and questions/comments from people can be found here.

· NEW: A list of FAQs (frequently asked questions) can be found here. The list is not complete, nor are any answers (except one) answered there. I'm trying to build a list of questions frequently asked on forums here and copy answers to the FAQ page so that it is easier to search for answers.

This program is designed for a target weight loss of 5-6 Kgs. per week. It will also improve your attitude and emotions because of its systematic cleansing effects. The effectiveness of this seven day plan is that the foods eaten burn more calories than they give to the body in caloric value. This plan can be used as often as you like to without any fear of complications. It is designed to flush your system of impurities and give you a feeling of well being. After seven days you will begin to feel lighter by atleast 10 pounds. You will have an abundance of energy and an improved disposition.

During the first seven days you must drink 10 glasses of water each day.

The Diet

Day One

fruits except bananas. Your first day will consists of all fruits you want. It is suggested you consume lots of watermelon and cantaloupe.

Day Two

vegetables. You are encouraged to eat until you are stuffed with all the new and cooked vegetables of your choice. There is no limit on the account or type. Avoid oil and coconut while cooking vegetables. Have large boiled potato for breakfast.

Day Three

Any mixture of fruits and vegetables of your choice. Any amount, any quantity. No bananas yet and no potatoes today.

Day Four

Bananas and milk. Today you will eat as many as eight bananas and drink three glasses of milk. You can also have one bowl of vegetables soup.

Day Five

Today is a feast day. You will eat 1 (one) cup of rice. You also have to eat 6 (six) whole tomatoes and drink 12 (twelve) glasses of water today to cleanse your system of the excess uric acid you will be producing.

Day Six

Today is another all vegetables day. You must eat 1 cup of rice today and eat all the vegetables you want cooked and uncooked to your heart's content.

Day Seven

Today your food intake will consist of 1 cup rice, fruit juice and all the vegetables you care to consume. Tomorrow morning you will be five to eight kilograms lighter than 1 week ago. If you desire further weight loss, repeat the program again. Repeat the program as often as you like, however, it is suggested that you rest for three days before every repetition.

You have your system under control now and it will thank you for all the purging and cleansing you just gave it. Even more than a diet program it is good to follow this diet once in a while to clean your digestive system and remove toxic substances that have a accumulated in the system.

Any comments and experiences to share? Please post here.

General Motors Wonder Soup

The following soup is intended as a supplement to your diet. It can be eaten any time of the day in virtually unlimited quantities. You are encouraged to drink large quantities of this soup.

· 23 oz water

· 06 large onions

· 02 green peppers

· 03 whole tomatoes

· 1 cabbage

· 1 bunch celery - add herbs and seasoning as desired.

This program is highly recommended for women and men above 40 for whom excess weight is especially dangerous. Excess weight for women aggravates arthritis problems and leads to rapid joint decay. Pain and joint deterioration can be lessened by weight loss as weight loss removes the stress on the knee joint. Excess weight is the most critical factor in keeping good health and excess weight is responsible for the most problems including coronary diseases, heart problems, arthritis and cancer among other serious life threatening diseases. Most serious health problems can be avoided by the single function of maintaining an ideal weight. Daily mild exercise of 20 minutes is also essential. Do not tire yourself out, but being regular in your exercise and maintaining an ideal weight goes a long way in ensuring a happy, healthy and long life.

This article is published in good faith on this website assuming that all the material herein is in the public domain, as the intention of this article is a noble one. If you find that this article is copyrighted and is not supposed to be published without permission, please let me know by dropping me a note somewhere on this website.

[zhongguoren]

There are too many crash diets on this forum.

[sojuiicy]

YOU MUST BE JOKING, 6 damn tomatoes WHOLE? LMFAO.. that's just disgusting. Unless I can make it into salsa then that's definitely a no. PS: the soup actually sounds really good

[~ BunnyliciouS ~]

wuih thats lots of fruits and veggies lol

[kinein]

........

You should clean up your post of the html you copied.

[sojuiicy]

Okay now I know where this sounds familiar.. it's pretty much like the cabbage soup diet, except the cabbage soup has definitely more nutrients then this and it's gonna be more filling. Cabbage soup one's more like tricking your metabolism to change. This one's like eating like a rabbit..

[se7ensg1rl]

My mom showed me this diet months ago and I took one look and was like this is GARBAGE. You eat that many fruits and expect to lose weight?? Fruits are healthy but it's full of carbs and sugar. Plus I think you're going to just gain it back when you start eating normally again.

[kinein]

I want to stress to readers that this is primarily meant as something to detox and cleanse the system. It also helps to make a person more aware of the effects of food on the system, particularly eating healthy.

As someone else said..

A week long diet will not (and can not!) do wonders for anyone, especially over the long term, as the body would have been subjected to an unhealthy lifestyle for years. What the GM diet does indeed do is clean up primarily your digestive system and to lesser extent other systems. It prepares your body to be able to work better again, but is not of much use if the abuse starts again!
The primary take-away from this diet should be an urge to manage your digestive system well. And of course, exercises (even non-trivial amount of walking should help!)
* Drink lots of water, even when the diet is 'over'
* Do not eat late in the evening - always keep a margin of about 2-3 hours before sleep.
* Avoid 'heavy' foods in the evening.

Anyone that pays attention will note that the tail-end involves reintroduction of proper eating.

Another thing to note ~

This was created in 1995 - 14 years ago (soon to be 15)

Science, medicine, nutrition have all improved since then ...

Another thing readers should understand is the emphasis on certain foods - from carbs, vegetables, and protein have changed over 15 years. Interested readers should research nutrition data over the last 10-15 years and compare to the last 5-10 years.

On a final note - some of the weight lost will be water weight - because the average person doesn't drink enough water regularly their body will naturally be retaining anywhere between 5-10lbs of water due to inconsistent or lack of daily water hydration.

I believe there is an interesting thread on water ( called the water cure ) ... although the conspiracy stuff is nonsense ~ its just dumb people that don't understand anything about human biology and the need for water.

Calling it a conspiracy and cure helps to attract the dumb people - and hopefully engages them into taking better care of themselves.


- this wasn't meant to be something you would do for long periods of time ( the original post is worded in a way as if it can be used this way )
- People currently in puberty should not rely on this wholly for a long period of time. If you want to detox and cleanse go for it - but you need to get back to eating healthy and that involves protein and vegetables anyways
- That means all you 9,10 year olds and jr high kids and hs kids.


Oh and junk food is bad for you!

[xkrn4lyfx]

Oh and junk food is bad for you!

WHAT?! THIS IS MADNESS!!!