According to Natural News, a practice
being promoted on YouTube as a fad diet is actually a form of disordered eating
that can pose serious health risks, health professionals are warning.
In videos promoting "the
cotton ball diet," young girls soak cotton balls in lemonade or orange
juice and then swallow them. The girls claim that the cotton balls expand in
the stomach, producing a feeling of fullness and thereby making them eat less
during the day. In this, the cotton ball diet may seem at first to resemble
appetite-suppressing drugs such as Lipozene.
But everything about the diet is
dangerous, experts warn, from the specifics of the practice to the attitude behind
it.
To start with, most cotton balls
are not actually made from cotton, but rather from synthetic, bleached
polyester fibers full of dangerous chemicals.
"Swallowing a synthetic
cotton ball is like dipping your T-shirt in orange juice and eating it,"
said Brandi Koskie, managing editor of the website Diets in Review.
"The most common causes of bezoars are swallowing
indigestible matter like hair or too much vegetable fiber," said Ovidio
Bermudez, chief medical officer at the Eating Recovery Center in Denver.
"Cotton balls could certainly create similar problems."
"You're really kind of playing Russian roulette when you use these types of diets," agreed Jennifer Lombardi of the Eating Recovery Center of California. "The biggest concern is it can cause a blockage in the digestive system, and if that happens to a certain extent, they are going to end up in surgery."
Finally, making yourself full by eating indigestible material poses a serious threat of malnutrition and even starvation.
"You're really kind of playing Russian roulette when you use these types of diets," agreed Jennifer Lombardi of the Eating Recovery Center of California. "The biggest concern is it can cause a blockage in the digestive system, and if that happens to a certain extent, they are going to end up in surgery."
Finally, making yourself full by eating indigestible material poses a serious threat of malnutrition and even starvation.
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A woman named Colleen Burns
recently opened her eyes to find herself on an operating table in a hospital in
Syracuse, NY. Looking around, she noticed that she was the subject of the
operation. It turns out that doctors were about to harvest her organs and send
them to other waiting surgeons who would transplant them into other patients.
ABC News and several other
news sources have covered this incident. And how did it happen? Doctors falsely
pronounced her dead by fraudulently claiming she had suffered "cardiopulmonary
arrest" and "irreversible brain damage." This gave them the
medical justification to start slicing away even while the woman's heart was
still beating.
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Authorities in Great Britain have
confirmed for the first time that a young girl was smuggled into the country
specifically so that her organs could be harvested and sold to wealthy
recipients.
As reported by The Telegraph:
“The unnamed girl was brought to
the UK from Somalia with the intention of removing her organs and selling them
on to those desperate for a transplant.
“Child protection charities
warned that the case was unlikely to be an isolated incident as traffickers
were likely to have smuggled a group of children into the country.”
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