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Yes: 1200 calories a day CAN be safe!
By 6wd | February 11, 2008
There are two things I love.
One is when people who have not read the Six Word Diet mini-manual feel free to pontificate about its flaws.
Love it, love it, love it.
Another is when people who have not read the New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, the Lancet, the British Medical Journal, the Annals of Internal Medicine, Canadian Medical Association Journal on a regular basis for YEARS bust out authoritative statements to the effect that people cannot–notice they don’t say MAY not, but CANNOT–get adequate nutrition on 1200 calories a day.
Look. I am very well educated. I read nutrition studies like some people read People magazine. Does it seem likely that I would just make up some random number of calories and pretend like it’s an okay number of calories, without having done my HOMEWORK? Without having studied medical journals for decades?
People CAN get adequate nutrition on 1200 calories a day.
I didn’t say everyone WILL, if they eat trash all day long. But if they know the basics, and follow the recommendations in the book, and most importantly, if they actually DO check with their doctor for advice about how to adapt the diet to their own needs, then people CAN get adequate nutrition.
And if 1200 calories isn’t right for you, your doctor would have told you. The very first page of the Six Word Diet (for the smack-talkers who didn’t bother to read it) states that you should talk to your doctor before you start any diet. Your doctor will not only advise you on the number of calories you need, but will almost certainly give you information on how to get nutrition with those calories.
What? Do I hear the question, “What if my doctor tells me to eat 2000 calories per day?”
You can STILL do the Six Word Diet!
Cliff Note number two for the naysayers you encounter who diss the diet without reading it: The number one feature of the Six Word Diet is that it is adaptable to everyone in every situation: calories can be adjusted by gender, exercise level, work situation, hours of sleep, and much more. See if “How to Modify the Six Word Diet” is not one of the main informational articles on the educational forum.
Next, to my beloved naysayers: Ever heard of a logical fallacy? A logical fallacy is when you assert a fact that is built on faulty logic.
Let’s look at one.
“You cannot get adequate nutrition on 1200 calories a day.”
Well, apart from the fact that that is patently FALSE, let’s look at the underlying logic.
Might this person be saying that the more calories you eat, the better nutrition you will intake?
Um….yyyyyyyeah……go sit at your local McDonald’s and watch all the healthy people waddling around with their healthy kids. They’re eating more than 1200 calories in one MEAL. Good nutrition, yes?
Uh, not so fast there with the head nodding.
Look, people who rip on the diet without reading it–or at least without reading the latest medical research on nutrition which, by the way, has stood old research on its head, so that if you got your bachelors degree out of books that were written in the 1960s, time to go back to school, hun…but as I was saying, the New England Journal of Medicine recently published an article (oh yeah, the author has an MD and a PhD, before you rip HIM) which stated that…
by the middle of this century, more people will diet of obesity than from all cancers combined.
Yeah.
So if we have finally designed a diet that can save THAT many lives, WHILE utilizing the latest research in calorie counting, AND recommending the latest methods for getting proper nutrition, AND which advises you to go to your doctor to tailor the diet to your needs, AND which features TAILORING THE DIET TO YOUR NEEDS as one of its main tenets, AND which has its practitioners stating repeatedly in writing on its forum that they have never eaten so many fruits and vegetables and low fat proteins in their lives while losing weight (reversing death sentences) at an unprecedented rate….
Then why diss it?
Instead, why not hop on the scale and make sure YOU are at the recommended weight for your body (based on the latest medical recommendations) and if not, grab a copy of the Six Word Diet and take authority over the things that are killing you.
But then, that would require a little up to date medical research.
And we wouldn’t want to suggest that you enter the realm of fact.
Or anything.
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