Theme-Based Low-Carb Links: Kimkins
Here is a listing of the blog posts I have written about the infamous Kimkins diet scam perpetrated on tens of thousands of unsuspecting dieters wanting a solution to their weight problem by a morbidly obese woman named Heidi Diaz aka Kimmer:
- From The Bottom Of My Heart, I'm Sorry
- An Open Invitation To Kimkins Refugees
- Official Statement From Jimmy Moore Regarding PI Revelations About Kimmer From Kimkins
- The Kimkins Calamity: From Merely A Raw Business Deal To A Really Big Danger
- Kimkins 'Cover Girl' Passionately Declares Diet 'Dangerous' After Health Issues Emerge
- KTLA-TV Unmasks Fraudulent Kimkins Diet Founder, Promises Continued Investigative Series
- The Kimkins Scam Illustrated By The Words Of 'Kimmer' Herself
- Kimmer Class Action Case In Court, Kimkins Diet Scam On National TV Monday
- Kimkins Diet Scam Shared On FOX's 'The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet'
- Disgruntled Ex-Kimkins Member? Get Your Refund NOW!
- USC Journalism Student Doing Project On Kimkins Diet Scam
- Battinger: I Still Believe The Kimkins Diet Works, But 'The Doors Are Closing' Soon
- Harmed By The Kimkins Diet? ABC News Wants To Hear From YOU!
- Kimkins Diet Scandal Exposed On ABC-TV's 'Good Morning America'
- Woman's World: 'We Can't Stand Behind' Our Kimkins Diet Story
- Kimkins, Heidi Diaz, AmyB And Me
2 comments:
I'm going to make this easy for you. I am formerly requesting that after you read this comment and choose to answer it or not that you please delete it and not display it on your blog. Hopefully this will increase the chances of your both responding and doing so honestly.
You know I was just stumbling around the Internet and saw something that you wrote a la this whole thing ( I just heard about all of this today surfing the net)and spent an hour catching up on it
You said this " I was once an affiliate for this very unhealthy diet plan when I didn't fully understand all of the ultra-low-calorie versions that are a part of the written plan. Now I know better."
And then this
"People on this diet to the letter regularly eat 500-750 calories a day--about half of what is considered the minimum basal level of caloric intake for health. Additionally, fat and carbohydrates are restricted to the bare minimum which leaves protein as the primary source of calories. Eliminating fat and encouraging it to be "as low as possible" is extremely dangerous advice for people to follow."
Can I ask you a quick question? And as I said, I only want this discussion to be between you and I and I will not repost or reuse it in any format without your written permission. How can you not know, as a guy writing diet books and selling food what constitutes a dangerous diet that you shouldn’t promote or being affiliated with and then proceed with business as usual even providing a helpful link so people can complain about your former sponsor or whatever relationship you had with that woman to the BBB? Then get up and go about you're day without thinking your credibility went up into smoke. I mean hear you are now over this hump and you seem to retain some credibility . I haven't read anyone slamming you when i googled you
How can you do what you do and remain medically unaware of those things? get caught out changing the text of comments and emails and from what I can tell have no medical training and risk the health of the folks who come to you or buy your products and get past that both in a business way and an ethical way?.
I don't mean this question as much of a questioning of your personal ethics it's really more of a. How can you literally do that and maintain your credibility? Your not just a blogger your a full on business enterprise and when businesses get caught up in perpetrating fraud and or don't admit to business relationships with other companies that have legal problems AND give out health advice ..I just wonder how all this works and you have any business at all. I have a blog. It is about dieting. It is about my dieting experience which I did with gastric bypass and it's mostly about simply telling people that the media tells you one thing and the reality of it is another. I do not give out health advice but only talk about my experience as it is based on my heath and what peer reviewed studies I can find and work from. My main goal is to discuss what I do and did in a forum but to also make sure that I explain to people that A -what I did was right for me but might be wrong for you and B- I only speak about me.
My greatest fear is someone deciding to have themselves physically modified because of something I wrote. So I tend to swing in the opposite direction mostly.
That there are secondary causalities that your not told about and to give people an insight and realty check. Since I'm not a Health professional I don't give out any health advice that isn’t provided by a health professional but what’s more important is I'm not selling books, candy bars or trying to make money on my thing even if I was less then honest about my experience it's still just a biographical work essentially.
You’re clearly a commercial enterprise. How can you... and you obviously have moved past this. But how can you disclose a business relationship that you were hiding. Claim you were unaware of the dire health risks that something you were secretly affiliated with and lied about, claim to be a health advicate and professional, and do not tell me your not.
I'm not a health professional and therefore I haven't sold books nor food under my personal brand. You are not and you do. Do you just wake up in the morning and say ...eh screw it, if I can get past this I will and hopefully this won’t kill my candy bar sales?
How does one wake up after a vacation in Missouri post a mea culpa and then just stay comfortable with dispensing food and advice when you clearly came as close as possible to getting sucked into a legal issue yourself not to mention the obvious moral implications your totally ignoring as well.
How sir can you say what you’re doing is for the betterment of people and at the same time lie and only cop to that lie when you’re forced to do it because you’re going to get outed.
Then still have the audacity to give out health advice and accept sponsorships and even get offered them? I go back to your statement Sir-
"I was once an affiliate for this very unhealthy diet plan when I didn't fully understand all of the ultra-low-calorie versions that are a part of the written plan. Now I know better."
If you’re so wise that people should buy your books and your products shouldn't you know enough to know when you’re advocating something that’s at best unhealthy and at worst possibly fatal?
Thanks for reading.
Mark
Hey Mark,
THANKS for sharing your opinions and concerns. I'm the first to admit I made a mistake and learned from it. Very few among us have gone through life not experiencing some things that we'd rather just forget about, so this is no different. I am merely one man who used to weigh over 400 pounds who was blessed enough by God to lose about half my body weight following a low-carb diet. When I saw Kimkins helping people (or at least I thought at the time those success stories were true) lose weight like I did, I was pleased to help promote it. Sadly, the entire thing was based on a lie and came to a head for me following my podcast interview with her. You can hear the pertinent parts that concerned me the most in this montage I did:
Was the Kimkins era of my life regrettable? You betcha. But I have moved on because there is nothing good that can come from dwelling on the errors of our past. I am not one to look backwards, but forward in all that I do. Incidentally, I only just began making this my full-time occupation within the past year because I have been given a great platform for sharing information with people about diet and health. I never pretend to be a medical professional, but merely share from my own experiences. That's what my blog is about.
THANK YOU again for sharing your comments and I appreciate it very much. Take care!
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