A simple diet that really works
Researchers at The Mill (YSA's research laboratories) recently came across the following simple, yet effective diet: The Coffee Diet.
Big Public Need
Much of the public is overweight, Studies indicate that excess body weight is a leading risk indicator for heart disease, and for a variety of systemic ailments. Studies also show that nearly all diets are ineffective, because most people can't keep up the needed regimen.
Our new diet is very effective. It requires no lifestyle changes, and little modification to anyone's current eating habits. The regimen is not only easy to maintain, it is virtually addictive.
The New Diet
The diet consist of drinking coffee, as much as possible, as often as possible.
One cup of coffee contains about 100 mg of caffeine. After drinking a cup, a person's resting metabolic rate increases by as much as 10%. For those unused to drinking coffee, the rise can be even larger.
Benefits of the Diet
An elevated metabolic rate means that your body is consuming more energy than usual. Your body uses this energy even if you are just sitting there, doing nothing except breathing. Over a span of days or weeks, more energy use translates to a weight loss.
Further Benefits
With the coffee diet, you will feel more alert. You will reclaim the hours you now waste sleeping, so you will burn more energy throughout the night.
The Diet For You
To sum up: drink coffee, and you will lose weight. Drink more coffee, and you will lose more weight. It's simple. It's pleasant. And before you know it, you will be a slimmer, trimmer, much more vibrant person than you had ever imagined possible.
(Acknowledgment: Alice Shirrell Kaswell, Cambridge Massachusetts. This article first appear in The Annals of Improbable Research.)
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