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DR. BRIGITE SCHMINGER'S DIET

THE DIET OF DR. BRIGITE SCHMINGER

This diet is a diet developed by the specialist Mrs. Dr. Brigitte Schminger and appeared in the form of a book called (Slim Without Carbs) in which she explained her experiences as a nutritionist

in general and in particular the diet she wrote and people were enthusiastic about implementing it.

She learned in New York City from Dr. Atkins, whose protein diet we mentioned, and she is now supervising a clinic in the Black Forest region in Germany that treats overweight people with her high-fat, high-protein diet that is almost devoid of carbohydrates.

The following is a one-day program for the (Slim Without Carbs) diet:

Breakfast: 150 g minced turkey breast meat fried in vegetable ghee with three eggs - coffee with a little artificially sweetened milk.

Lunch: A piece of baked fish with spices, oil, garlic, green pepper and tomato - one piece of kiwi - tea or coffee without sugar.

Dinner: Salami sausage with beef or veal tongues and cream sweetened with artificial sugar - tea or coffee without sugar.

All these diets rich in fat and very poor in carbohydrates and fiber, such as the Atkins, Lotus, Felix and Schminger diets, have been met with many criticisms from nutritionists.

They have also been approved by some others, so it was necessary to talk about their pros and cons.

The pros are summarized in:

First - a person does not feel hungry while following this diet because the amount of food in it is unlimited, and here the calories are not counted, but the grams of carbohydrates consumed. Second - its results are fast, as the weight decreases by at least half a kilogram per day.
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The negatives are summarized in:

First - Reliance on meat, fish, eggs and cheese, which deprives the body of vitamins and minerals, and therefore requires taking them artificially and orally.

Second - This diet may cause constipation in some people due to its lack of fiber, and therefore laxatives should be used if necessary.

Third - These diets may cause an increase in uric acid and cholesterol levels in some people.

Fourth - A diet poor in carbohydrates causes many people to have a cold in the winter, dizziness, trembling and anxiety, and for athletes, physical deterioration and rapid fatigue due to the lack of glucose in the blood.

Therefore, some individuals take sedatives while following this diet.

The physician and anthropologist Dr. F. Stefansson, who lived for about three years in the far reaches of Canada with its indigenous Eskimo tribes, made his observations about them, stating that the Eskimo tribes living in northern Canada live on fish, whales and marine animals that they hunt, and they do not know any food other than the meat of these fish. He lived with them for a long time and ate their food of grilled and boiled fish.

His weight dropped, but he remained healthy, like most Eskimos who live without carbohydrates. Dr. Stefansson believes that sugar and starches are responsible for obesity in the present age.

As for my personal experience with Dr. Atkins' protein diet, it was several years ago when I returned to Damascus to spend a two-week vacation and was invited by family and friends to banquets, lunches and dinners, and eating delicious food in large quantities was the main program in all these invitations, so I ate a lot and was often forced to do so.

When I returned from my vacation to Germany, I found that my weight had increased by five kilograms from my normal weight, so I decided to follow the Dr. Atkins diet that I knew about and I actually started following it faithfully since the morning of the second day after my arrival in Germany and by the end of the ninth day I had lost five kilograms and returned to my normal weight.

Here I must mention that after the end of this diet, I conducted all types of laboratory tests to find out whether I had been negatively affected by this diet, and the results were all normal.