Kimkins Controversy - Kimkins Scam

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The above press release gives you the gist of what FoodConnect.com is all about. I have visited the site a few times and I find it to be quite entertaining. I haven’t come away with any must make recipes yet. As often as not, I am vicariously entertained by websites about food. I have a pretty stable diet that I don’t deviate from that much. I am thinking about submitting a few recipes to see what dietary values are spit out. You really have to take some of the values with a grain of salt because they are dependent on user inputs. I actually find the cocktails to be the most entertaining, or more accurately I find the people who leave comments after trying out drink recipes to be a hoot. Here is a recipe for Captain Morgan’s Steamy Applecolada Dream.

Food Safety

Have you ever thought that it’s possible that people who eat more meat as part of a low carb way of eating are at a higher risk of food borne illness? I don’t know if this is true. I do know that being careful and smart about handling meat can mean fewer bouts of illness for you and your family and reduce the likelihood of having a serious food poisoning occur.

I remember Oprah spending months harping on and on about not thawing out chicken on the counter. At the time, I have to admit that I found it annoying. Now I am wondering how many lives she may have saved with her tirades.

There are lots of government websites and other resources that can provide more accurate and complete information about food safety…

WHO page on food safety

Foodlink

The FDA’s Playing it Safe with Eggs

A Complete Loan Source

Despite readin the various terrifying news items about the credit industry on news sites almost every day, life goes on. We will still find ourselves in need of Car Loans and Personal Loans from time to time. If you have never used the internet as a resource for loan shopping, you are doing yourself a disservice.

Do as your momma told you and shop around, but consider checking out CompleteLoanSource.com first. If you go to their landing page you will see that they have 1285 words that reads like Loans 101.

I think credit is one of the only things that I haven’t bought on the internet and that is bound to change someday. I generally look around at online sources to get some perspective before heading out to the bricks and mortar places.

Changes at Kimkins.com

There is no longer a link to the Controversy page AKA the Debate page on the front of Kimkins.com. I based a post on the fact that Kimmer was no longer pictured on the “Watch Us Lose” table despite stating that she had recently lost over fifty pounds. Well, there’s Kimmer. Her stats show a big weight loss as does her current picture. She replaced another member who was listed as having lost a whooping seven pounds.

Have you Heard About FitReach?

If you are looking for a convenient way to stay on track with your fitness and dietary goals, you should check out FitReach. You can use the site to help you track your progress, whether your goal is weight loss or muscle gain.

You can create a training plan and input your statistics and your results. Your FitReach account can also serve up a great way to manage your diet. In the information age, we have a lot of information at our fingertips with regard to diet and fitness. There are enough trusted sources and review sites out there to help you separate the good info from the bad if you do a little homework. Knowing how to lose weight and/or get fit is not the issue with most of us. As often as not we fail to stick to perfectly good plans because we lack the motivation or the organization. Tools like FitReach help people firm up a plan and stick to it. Your progress is visible to other FitReach members, if you choose to make it visible.

Creating a FitReach profile is quick and easy. Getting fit and/or losing weight is not quick and easy, but anything that you can do to keep yourself on track is worth looking into.

Where’s Kimmer?

The controversy page on Kimkins and the Kimkins homepage don’t match up. It’s not so much a lie as an oversight.

Here is the sentence I am referring to…

Here is a screencap from Kimkins, slightly modified for the purposes of lulz…

Heidi is writing about a 50lb weight loss AND she has stopped documenting her progress on the front page. It doesn’t add up (or subtract up, depending on how you look at it).

Reaching Out

Blogs serve various purposes for various people. I became a bit upset when I recently saw a blog that was being used by someone with a serious eating disorder, possibly bulimia. Her profile information sounded positive and hopeful with regard to recovering, but her journal style entries were shocking details of an unhealthy relationship with food. The shield of anonymity prevents me from trying to help this person in any substantial way. If any of my readers think they have enough life experience and empathy to reach out to a binge and purge blogger, go to Egocidal.blogspot.com.

Freedom of Information

If you are really interested in the minute details of the legal proceedings related to Kimkins, you might be interested in Riverside Civil Court Open Access. Anyone can view documents related to the case, or just about any other case.

I am not in a reading mood today. My most insightful observation is related to the clerical quality standards. One page was copied on an pretty extreme diagonal. I wish people took more pride in their work.

Spreadable Butter Made Easy

I recently felt more joy than circumstances warranted when I started using our new can opener. Basically, our old one was crap and the new one was as good as it gets. I hadn’t realized just how much my life had been diminished by that crappy can opener.

This post is not about can openers, it is about a really cool French butter keeper from Vat19. Seeing how it works has made me question how much better my life could be if my butter would spread well at room temperature. I should note that with the cost of heating fuel rising, ‘room’ temperature is lower than ever, at least in the winter.

Vat19 is a really cool online store. Some product are a bit silly and some are pure genius.

Check out ‘Normal Eating’

I am not promoting the school of thought that is being referred to as Normal Eating. It interests me and I haven’t heard or read anything about it that I found discouraging. The basic idea is that our bodies know how to regulate weight properly and that teaching ourselves to eat based on physiological cues and to ignore emotional and societal cues will result in healthy weight loss. I recommend that you all read up on it. The only criticism that I have is that many people are so entrenched in a culture that overeats that calling this ‘normal eating’ will sound elitist to their family and friends. In a society, normal is what everyone decides to call normal. I could be wrong.