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New Crash Diet Book Wants You to Starve, Freeze, Stop Eating Vegetables

Katie J.M. Baker

Have you heard about Six Weeks to OMG: Get Skinnier Than All Your Friends, the fad diet du jour that claims "broccoli carbs can be worse than soda carbs" and "small, frequent meals pack on the pounds"? We haven't covered the book (because the title alone represents everything we oppose), but If you commute to work, you might be forced to consider 100% true facts like "Cold baths can give you a firm body" and "You can skip breakfast" on the way to the office. We've been seeing the ads on subways, and an enraged tipster sent us this shot.

We hate thinking about teen girls (or anyone, really) getting off the subway with the urge to buy a book crammed with ridiculous crash dieting tactics that their "skinny friends have already read."

Here's what author Venice A. Fulton (also known as British actor Paul Khanna. He played a death eater in some of the Harry Potter movies. How apropos!) told MSNBC about eating disorders, puppy fat, and "seeing yourself":

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http://jezebel.com/5934382/new-crash-diet-book-wants-you-to-starve-freeze-stop-eating-vegetables


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For most people, it really is pretty simple: eat clean and healthy and enough, stop drinking any sodas (except as treats), and do at least moderate cardio for 20+ minutes a few times a week. Expend more calories than you eat, BUT EAT ENOUGH. Walk the steps, park further away, do little things all day. Please, be a healthy woman and proud of your muscle and curves. Do not starve yourself.